How it works
Five minutes a week from you. Fifty-two weeks of practice for them.
LifeCraft does not ask you to teach anything or run a lesson. It gives your child three real situations a week, tells you what to watch for, and turns what you saw into a measurement. The work happens in your kitchen, not in an app.
A loop, not a course
The same four steps run every week, for as long as you use it.
Assess
A short assessment places your child on the scale and tells the engine where to start. You can skip it and begin with missions, but the first weeks will be less well aimed.
Practise
Three missions arrive for the week, matched to your child's age band and to the capabilities with the most room ahead. Two work on what needs building, one keeps a strength warm.
Observe
When you see it happen, record it. Four sliders and an optional note. It takes about thirty seconds and there is no essay to write.
Measure
The score updates immediately and the pillar that moved is visible. Every snapshot is kept, so the trend line is real history rather than a redrawn estimate.
What a mission actually looks like
Every mission names the situation, what the child does, what you do, and one thing to talk about afterwards.
- The situationA real one from your week, not a hypothetical.
- What they doOne thing, described plainly enough that a child understands it.
- Your partUsually to step back and let it go imperfectly.
- AfterwardsOne question worth asking, so the reflection is theirs and not a lecture.
Rules the engine keeps so you do not have to
The week does not reshuffle under you
Once a week is assigned it stays put. Recording an observation against a mission used to make it ineligible and swap it out mid-task, which was maddening. It no longer does.
The same child always gets the same week
Selection is deterministic and seeded by the child, not random. If you call us about week nine, we can see exactly the week nine you saw.
No situation repeats too soon
The engine rotates through nine everyday domains and will not repeat one within three weeks, so a term does not become nine weeks of tidying a bedroom.
Difficulty climbs with the child
The difficulty window rises as the standard does. A child at Discovery gets gentle missions; a child at Advanced gets ones with real consequences attached.
What it asks of you
About five minutes
Reading the week and recording what you saw. Not an evening.
No teaching
You are not delivering a curriculum. You are noticing and stepping back.
Honesty over kindness
A generous rating helps nobody. The score is only useful if it is true.