A warm, hand-touched habit tracker for the messy work of raising people. Pick the area that's hard this week — tantrums, picky eating, bedtime, potty — and we'll suggest small daily reps backed by gentle, evidence-based parenting.
Skill Sprouts isn't here to give you a longer to-do list. It's here to remind you that the two-minute things — naming the feeling, dropping to their eye level, the bedtime story you almost skipped — those are the actual job. Small reps. Soft landings. A little bit of memory keeping.
— with love, the Skill Sprouts team
50+ areas of child development — from big feelings to bedtime — each with evidence-grounded habits sorted by Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced. Add what fits this week. Swap it out next week. The library grows with your kids.
No guilt loops. No notification bombardment. Just a soft daily rhythm and a sprout that gets a little taller when you show up.
Tantrums, potty, picky eating, bedtime — whichever season of chaos you're in.
Two-minute reps. The kind you'd do anyway — we just remember them for you.
Your sprout grows leaf by leaf. Miss a day? It just naps. No guilt, no streak loss.
A daily prompt — different every day, always about your kid — and a place to write two sentences. That's it. No baby book guilt. No scrapbooking weekend. Just little moments, saved.
Six months from now, on the day you forget your kid said "mommy you're my best friend" — it'll be in here. We promise.
She got so frustrated trying to tie her shoes — but instead of melting down, she took a big breath and said "I need a minute." Where did she even learn that? Maya's mom · May 19
I deleted three other parenting apps because they made me feel like a project manager. Skill Sprouts feels like a friend texting me reminders. The two-minute thing actually works.S
The journal is what got me. Six months in I have 80 entries I would have completely forgotten otherwise. One sentence at bedtime. That's all it takes.D
As a child therapist, I recommend this to half my families. The habits are actually evidence-based and the tone never shames. Rare combo.N
No red badges. No "you missed yesterday" shame spiral. Skip a day, skip a week — your sprout just naps and waits for you. The whole point is to lower the stakes, not raise them.
Every habit is rooted in modern, gentle parenting research — Dr. Becky, Dr. Markham, Hand in Hand Parenting, and the broader connection-based parenting literature. Built to be warm, simple, and actually doable on a chaotic Tuesday morning. No flashcard nonsense.
Yes. Each child gets their own profile, sprout, habits, and journal. Switch between them with a tap. Co-parent sharing is coming soon — so both adults can stay in sync.
We're on iOS and Android — same features, same prices. Web version is coming.
Technically, yes — but we don't. Your notes are stored encrypted on our servers, and your private key is also stored there so your content stays accessible across all your devices. That means we have the ability to decrypt your data, but we have a strict policy of never accessing user content. It's the same trust model as most cloud services.
No — all photos live on your device, because we care about privacy. If you switch devices, we're working on a feature to restore those photos on the new one.
Yes. One tap in Settings. No emails to send, no "are you sure" loops. Free tier stays as long as you want.
Two minutes. One habit. Whatever's hard today. Your future self will thank you.