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Notes from making apps for parents and kids.

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Will the rewards make my kid lazy?

"Are we raising a kid who won't move without a prize?" — answered through ADHD dopamine research.

📱 Which app fits when?

"Hurry up" had become my whole morning vocabulary

"I've got it, stop telling me" — but nothing moves until I do

"How many more?" — the morning sentence I'm tired of answering

"I already missed this week, I'll start fresh Monday" — every Monday

"You said ten times for game time." Did I, though?

"The school's calling again." Chest tightens, every time.

I was only looking at the planes that made it back

PlanetLoopTimer

Set a timer, start a fight. Every time.

“They grow up so fast,” the grandma in the checkout line said

Bēmaga, 30 years later — porting a 100-line BASIC game to iPhone

— Latest —

"Pick whatever you want" was the cruelest thing I'd been sayingNew

The workbook was running TDD on us the whole time

An engineer dad takes "parenting frameworks" way too seriously (series intro)

Wrong dinner. End of the world. Again.

He won't listen, but I want him happy

Just listen, kid. It's easier.

Quit testing my patience, kid

Nobody shoots at a hoop on the roof

I was grabbing his failures before he could feel them

Remembering to remember

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