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Child Wellbeing

Every co-parenting app was built for the adults. We built one for the child.

Meet Sophie

Sophie is eight years old. Both of her parents use a co-parenting app. The app knows everything about their custody arrangement — the schedule, the expenses, the violations. It knows nothing about Sophie.

Sophie has started having panic attacks on Sunday nights before custody transitions. Her school counsellor noticed her grades dropping on weeks following high-conflict exchanges between her parents. Her therapist would find it enormously useful to know whether Sophie’s emotional state correlates with specific calendar events or communication spikes. No app gives the therapist that data. No app tracks it at all.

Sophie is the entire reason these apps exist. She is completely invisible to every one of them.

She is not alone. Every child caught in a custody arrangement is invisible to every co-parenting tool on the market. The apps log the parents’ behaviour, the parents’ expenses, the parents’ schedule. The child — the person the schedule is built around — does not appear in the data.

We changed that.

Child wellbeing tracking is a Pro feature · Available on the 14-day free trial

How we built this, and why it had to be built this way.

Parents in contentious situations will immediately ask: who controls this data? Can my co-parent use it against me? These questions deserve direct answers before any feature is described.

Principle 1

Neither parent has an advantage.

Both parents see every check-in entry at the same time. Both see the same mood history, the same trend lines, the same therapist-generated insights. There is no private data between parents. This is not a tool for building evidence against a co-parent — it is a tool for understanding a child.

Principle 2

Insights are collaborative, not accusatory.

When the data shows a pattern — Sophie’s mood tends to be lower on transition days — the observation is framed the same way every time: “Both parents can review transition routines to see if changes might help.” Never: “This is happening in one parent’s household.” Never: “Parent A is causing this.” The data surfaces. Both parents receive it. Both are invited to respond.

Principle 3

Therapists see only the child’s data.

A therapist granted access sees mood history, transition records, and patterns. Nothing else. Not messages between the parents. Not expenses. Not calendar events. Not anything about the parents’ relationship with each other. This is enforced at the system level, not just the interface level.

One question. Under 30 seconds. Both parents see the answer.

Once a day, either parent — or the child if they are old enough — answers one question: how was today?

😣 Very hard day
😟 Hard day
😐 Okay day
🙂 Good day
😊 Great day

An optional text field for a note — what made today good or hard. Optional tags let either parent add more context:

Tired Energetic Sick Proud Anxious Happy Excited Upset Calm

That is it. Both parents see every entry immediately. There is one entry per child per day.

Automatic

Each entry records which parent had custody that day, based on the shared calendar — not manually entered. If the check-in is submitted on a custody exchange day, it is automatically flagged as a post-transition entry. That flag becomes the basis for transition pattern analysis.

The patterns no one could spot by memory alone.

Monthly heatmap

Every day of the month shown as a coloured square. Great days in deep green, hard days in red, days with no check-in in grey. Tap any day to see the full entry — mood, note, tags, who logged it, which parent had custody, whether it was a transition day.

30-day trend line

A rolling average plotted as a continuous line. Custody exchange dates marked on the axis. When the line dips around transition days and recovers in the middle of custody periods, that pattern is visible for the first time. It is data no one was capturing before.

March — mood by day
SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT
Great
Good
Okay
Hard
Very hard
No entry
Transition day

Two hours before every handover. A checklist for both households.

Two hours before every custody exchange, both parents receive a reminder. Linked to that reminder: a transition checklist. Each parent completes it from their household’s perspective. Both can see both completed checklists.

School bag
Homework done
Medications packed
Comfort toy
Sports gear
Library books
Charger
Retainer

Notes can be added to any item. The kind of small, specific detail that matters enormously during a handover and is easy to forget — “inhaler is in the outside pocket” — lives in the checklist, not in a message that might be missed.

The checklist is linked to the calendar exchange event. When that event is generated from the custody schedule or added manually, the checklist is created with it automatically. No additional setup required.

When the handover is hard, the data shows it.

Any check-in submitted on a custody exchange day is automatically flagged as post-transition. No manual marking needed. The monthly report can then show something specific: Sophie’s average mood on transition days across the last three months was 3.1. Her average on non-transition days was 4.0.

Avg. mood — transition days
3.1
Out of 5 · 90-day average
Avg. mood — non-transition days
4.0
Out of 5 · 90-day average

That number goes to the therapist as a weekly digest. It appears in the court report if child wellbeing is included. It becomes a longitudinal record of how custody transitions are affecting the child — not an accusation, a measurement.

The frame is always collaborative: both parents receive the same data, and both are invited to think about what might help.

The therapist finally has the data they have been asking for.

A child’s therapist currently sees the child once a week. They hear about the custody arrangement from the child’s perspective and from one parent’s account in a given session. They have no longitudinal mood data. No transition pattern data. No way to know whether what they are observing in the room correlates with what is happening at home.

With Therapist Share Mode, a parent grants their child’s therapist read-only access to the child’s wellbeing data. The therapist sees mood history, transition records, weekly summaries, and trend lines. They receive a weekly email digest with the previous week’s data and can log in to review patterns between sessions.

Access requires the therapist to create a verified professional account with two-factor authentication — the same infrastructure used for the attorney portal. Every action they take is logged. Access can be revoked by the granting parent at any time.

Therapist access scope

What the therapist can and cannot see

Child mood history and entries Access
Transition records and flags Access
Weekly summaries and trend lines Access
Messages between parents Blocked
Expense records Blocked
Calendar events and court orders Blocked
Parent account information Blocked
Enforced at the system level. These restrictions are not settings either parent can override. The therapist portal is a separate, permissioned data view. No configuration exposes blocked data.
Case Study — Denver, CO — Composite from multiple families

“Sophie is the entire reason the app exists. She is completely invisible to it.”

The situation

Sophie’s parents have co-parented for two years. Both use co-parenting apps. Those apps know the custody schedule, the expense history, every message exchanged. No one tracked Sophie.

Her school counsellor had noticed grade drops on post-exchange weeks. Her therapist suspected a correlation between her mood and transition days but had no data to confirm it. The therapist asked both parents about Sophie’s mood at home. Each gave an account from their own household’s perspective. Neither was wrong. Neither was complete.

After three months on Parenting Path with Child Wellbeing active

Sophie’s therapist received weekly digests showing her mood averaged 2.8 on the seven days following custody exchanges, versus 4.1 on non-exchange weeks. The pattern was unmistakable. The therapist proposed a specific, low-conflict change: a phone call from the non-custodial parent on Sunday evenings during exchange weeks.

Both parents agreed. The call became routine.

Post-exchange avg. before
2.8 / 5
Post-exchange avg. after
3.7 / 5
Time to identify pattern
3 months
“The most actionable data I have received in two years of working with this family.”

Child wellbeing tracking is a Pro feature. Free for 14 days.

Both parents, all children, one Pro subscription. No credit card required for the trial.

Child wellbeing data is never shared outside the family without explicit permission. Therapist access requires active consent from the granting parent.