“Time to turn off the iPad. Put away the smartphone. And just enjoy being where you are when with your FAMILY!” – Unknown Christmas is a time of reflection. A chance to look back at the year with all the good times shared with family and friends… ….finishing in a flurry of parties, family ‘get togethers’, … Continued
This week’s blog comes from parenting and child behaviour specialist and long time friend of Habyts: Bonnie Harris. Bonnie has designed and taught parenting workshops and counselled parents for more than twenty-five years. She is a best-selling author of When Your Kids Push Your Buttons and What You Can Do About It as well as Confident … Continued
It’s never too early – or too late – to let kids help out with chores. Many parents know the value of having kids do chores – from teaching good life habits to building confidence as a contributing member of the family. But sometimes it’s hard to think up the right chores for the right … Continued
Our busy development elves are always hard at work improving Habyts based on your feedback. This week, amongst the usual bug fixes, we’ve rolled out an improved layout for the Habyts Parent’s Dashboard, making it clearer and easier to manage screen time for kids. How your dashboard will look when you next log in. The new dashboard … Continued
More news here from Habyts Headquarters. We’ve just launched a shiny new child dashboard. Screen time controls have never been so simple or pretty! What’s changed? Now it’s even easier for kids to see: What tasks they need to complete to get more screen time The rewards they can claim when they complete these tasks … Continued
At Habyts, we are always looking for innovative ways for parents to overcome screen time struggles. Every family is different, which gives us any number of screen time problems to solve! In fact, some of our app features have come as a direct result of a Habyts parent asking us how to use the app … Continued
We’ve got some great news here at Habyts Headquarters! Study Time was such a popular feature with all our parents that the Habytars have been working away at bringing you a Scheduled Study Time feature. And we’re pleased to say it’s here! What does that mean? Now, in the Habyts Schedule bar, you can automatically … Continued
Our story begins quite innocently. A few weeks ago, our handful of Habyts Hobbits were merrily pottering along, eating second breakfasts and partaking in the summer festivals in the Shire. But when the Eye of Sauron of Screen Time fell upon us, the Habyts Hobbits joined forces with our Habytars on a 3-week quest to build … Continued
Here at Habyts, we’re all ears! Whether it’s a fresh Habyts feature suggestion, requests for new parenting resources, or just a friendly chat, we just love hearing from our customers. So, based on customer feedback, we are introducing [drumroll] our new bite-size #HabytsHowTo video guides! Because many of you wanted a simple explanation of Habyts features and … Continued
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of.” – Louis C. K. So here you are. You’ve realised that too much Screen Time can be detrimental to your child’s health, motivation and progress. And you’re taking steps to help keep this in check. … Continued