Everything on the grown-ups' side

Getting in

At the bottom of your children's players screen there's a small, deliberately boring Grown-ups link. Tapping it asks you one easy multiplication question — and it's written out in words, like “What is seven times four?”, so a child who can't read yet can't pattern-match the numerals. Type the answer on the keypad and tap the tick.

Get it wrong and you simply get a fresh question, so there's nothing to break and no way to lock yourself out. Passing is remembered for that browser session only: close the browser and the next visit asks again.

Inside, the first thing to do is add a child. A name is all that's required — the avatar is optional, and the picker suggests one no sibling has taken yet. They can play the moment you tap Add child. Add as many children as you like; each gets their own progress, artwork and avatar, at no extra cost.

Reading the dashboard

Every child gets one card, and it answers a single question: how are they doing this week? It's entirely read-only — the only thing to tap is a game row, and the Settings › link in the corner.

• Sessions this week How many times they opened a game in the last seven days.
• Answers this week Every question they answered that had a right or wrong to it, across all the games, in those same seven days.
• Level pills The level they've reached in a game that has levels, like Level 3. It never goes backwards.
• Trend arrows A green ▲ or a red ▼ next to a number — how many percentage points their accuracy in that game moved compared with the week before.
• Second line Under the headline number, each game shows a second line of detail — for Money Quest that's jobs done, and money earned and spent.
• All time The same headline number for their whole history, plus how many sessions they've played in total.
• Working on A one-line summary of the thing they're currently finding hardest. Tap it to open the practice tips.

Practice tips: what to work on tonight

This is the part that does the work for you. Tap any game row on a child's card and a panel slides in with what they're actually struggling with — no chart to decode, no scores to interpret.

• Watch for A recurring mix-up, named in plain words — Mixing up “9” and “6”. It only appears when the same swap has happened more than once, so it's a habit, not a slip.
• Trouble spots The specific items they miss most, with the tally — 3 + 4 · should be 7 · answered 8 · missed 3 of 5. Up to five of them, worst first.
• How it's going Six weekly bars of percentage correct, with a gap for any week they didn't play.
• Try this together One plain practice tip, written for the thing they're actually missing — like counting backwards from the bigger number when subtraction is the sticking point.

That's the whole idea: the app tells you exactly what to practice at home. Not “work on math” — the two numbers they keep confusing, and one thing to try over dinner.

Each child's settings page

Everything you can change for a child lives on their own settings page, which you reach with the Settings › link on their dashboard card. The dashboard shows you how they're doing; this is where you adjust things.

It's six collapsed sections — avatar, voice, games, reward packs, saved art, and removing the child — and the rest of this guide walks through each one in that order. You can also rename a child from the top of this page with Edit name.

Avatars & celebrations

Tap Avatar and pick a character. It's who your child is in the app: their face on the players screen, and on their settings card here.

It also does something you don't have to set up. Every child automatically gets celebration animations starring their own avatar — the little cheer that plays when they get something right is that character. Change the avatar and the celebrations change with it. There's nothing to tick and nothing to buy; it just follows whoever they picked.

Reward packs

Reward packs are additions, not a setup step. Your child's own character already celebrates with them, always, and that can't be switched off — which is why you won't find their own character in this list.

If the celebrations start to feel stale after a few weeks, tick a couple more packs here and those animation sets get mixed into the rotation alongside the avatar's own. Untick them and you're back to where you were.

Nothing ticked is a complete, working state. If you never open this section at all, your child still gets celebrations every time they get something right.

Voice

Choose who reads your child's games out loud: Mr. Nick or Mrs. Elizabeth. It applies everywhere the app speaks — the words, the letter sounds, the encouragement.

These are real recorded human voices, not synthetic ones. Each child can have a different one, and switching takes effect straight away.

Games & starting levels

The Games section has a switch for every game. Turn one off and it disappears from that child's home screen — useful when a game is a distraction, or simply too old or too young for them right now. Turning it back on returns it exactly as it was.

Underneath a game that's switched on you may also see Start at level. That's for a child who doesn't need the early material: set it and the later levels open immediately, without them having to work through the beginning first. The line below it tells you the level they've already reached, and says plainly when your choice would change nothing because they're already past it.

It never removes progress they've already earned. The start level is a floor, not a position: the game always opens at whichever is further along, what they've earned or what you set. You cannot demote a child with it.

Saved art

Saved art shows everything that child has drawn and saved. The section header carries the count, so you can see at a glance how much is there without opening it.

Each drawing has a small download button in its top-left corner, which saves that one picture — handy on a tablet, where press-and-hold to save is unreliable. Download all at the top of the section packages the whole gallery into a single zip, named after your child, with each file dated. If any drawing can't be fetched, the zip still downloads and the app names what's missing rather than quietly handing you a short one.

What you get, either way, are the saved web-sized images — the same pictures the app stores and shows in your child's gallery, ready to keep or print.

Each tile also has a ✕ to delete that drawing, and deleting one here is permanent— this is the only place in the app where a saved drawing can be removed, which is deliberate: there's no delete button on the kid's side, so a child can't erase their own work in a frustrated moment.

Removing a child

The last section on a child's settings page removes that child from your account. It sits on its own at the bottom, and it's the one action here you cannot take back.

As the clip shows, there are two gates rather than one. You open the confirmation, and then you have to type the child's full name before the remove button will do anything. A stray tap can't get through that, which is the entire reason it's there. Capitalisation doesn't matter — it's a “did you mean it” check, not a spelling test.