Choose quests, rewards, and badges for your child
Build a manageable first routine, make reward prices attainable, and adjust it together over time.
- Choose three to five responsibilities your child understands. Add more later if the routine is manageable.
- Write one clear finish line for each quest. For example: “Put toys in their bins and clothes in the hamper.”
- Assign a schedule that matches real life. Use One time for a special project and Every other day for alternating responsibilities.
- Agree on what needs parent approval. Keep approval on while learning the routine.
- Younger child: put toys away, make a bed with help, feed a pet with supervision, pack a school bag.
- Older child or teen: finish agreed homework, help with dinner, take out recycling, complete a room reset, prepare for the next day.
- Ask your child which rewards they actually want and choose ones you are happy to provide.
- Estimate a normal day’s gems from the quests you selected.
- Offer a small reward within a few days’ effort and another longer-term goal.
- Example: four 25-gem quests earn 100 gems in a fully approved day. A 100-gem movie choice is one day’s effort; a 600-gem outing is six such days.
- Describe timing clearly: “Choose the movie for Friday family night” is clearer than “Movie.”
- Create a completion-count badge for recurring work that is not daily.
- Create a short daily streak badge for a habit genuinely scheduled every day.
- Consider a zero-gem streak reward if the goal itself should unlock a celebration without another cost.
- Name the exact task in the badge or reward requirement so the child knows what to do.
Treat the report as a conversation about the routine. If a responsibility is no longer relevant, pause it instead of leaving it on the child’s active list.
- Open the child’s Stats or Performance report together.
- Look at completed quests, the daily graph, and the next reward goal.
- Ask which instructions were unclear, which tasks need help, and whether reward prices still make sense.
- Edit the routine together, then sync all devices.
- Provide earned rewards as agreed and use badges to acknowledge effort.