When One Parent Leaves Early: Keeping Kids On Track With Their Routine
In lots of families, parents take turns with school drop-off. So some mornings, one parent is already on the way to work before the morning routine is finished. If that parent's phone is the one with Little Streaks on it, how does your child tick off the rest of their tasks?
It happens in our house too. Two mornings a week, I head off to work before the kids go to school. On those mornings, they tick off their tasks on my husband's phone instead.
Your child stays in charge
A big part of Little Streaks is that your child is in control. They tick off their own tasks, not you. That only works if there's a device at home they can use, even when the one it's usually on has left for the day.
Use Little Streaks on more than one device
The good news is that Little Streaks works across your family's devices. You might set it up on one phone to start with, but you can share your family with the other parent's phone, or with your child's own iPad. Everyone sees the same children, routines and stars, and anyone can tick off a task.
To share your family:
- Open Little Streaks on the device you set it up on. Tap the gear at the bottom of the screen, then the gear again, to open Settings.
- Tap Share Your Family, then Send an Invitation. Answer the grown-up question, then choose how to send the invitation.
- Open the invitation on the other device and tap Join.
Both devices need iCloud turned on.
Little Streaks is a routines and rewards app for kids, for iPhone and iPad. Free to start, with up to two routines.
