Star Reward Charts: Chores

It's 7:40. One sock on, breakfast going cold, and you've said "shoes" three times. The first time was cheerful. The second had their name in it. The third sounded like someone you never planned to be. Your child is not being difficult. They know every step of this morning and could recite it back to you. Knowing it has never been the problem. The problem is that the order lives in your head. You hold the sequence, you call the next step, you supply the urgency. You are not reminding your child. You are being the routine. Star Reward Charts is a reward chart with the order built in. Something you point at together, instead of something you recite. Your child's morning becomes a short path on the screen. Make bed, breakfast, teeth, shoes, in your family's order. The step they are on is lit up, the rest wait behind it, and they press and hold to collect their own star as each one is done. HOW IT WORKS 1. Start with the part you dread Pick a routine, use the guided suggestions or add your own steps, then put them in your family's order. 2. Choose how each child sees it A rainbow path suits a six-year-old and insults a twelve-year-old, who still needs the routine. So there are five views of the same routine, from the winding path to a plain list, saved per child. The look ages out years before the need does. 3. They collect their own stars Your child presses and holds to collect a star for a finished step. The path brightens and the next step becomes current. No approval queue, no waiting on you. And if real life happens out of order, they can still collect a later star. 4. Finish and celebrate Completing the routine opens the treasure chest and earns gems for monster items. Stars build towards a real reward your family chose together: ice cream, the park, a toy, picking the film on Friday. That part is entirely yours. YOU STAY IN CHARGE - Give each routine its own steps, days, and optional reminder - Anytime tasks keep extra jobs separate from the routine itself - Adjust a balance, or undo a star or a reward claim, from history - Share one iPhone, or use the same account on separate parent iPhones - Child Mode hides parent screens and sets what each child can do - No ads THE ROUTINE COMES FIRST The monster, the chest, and the gems celebrate progress. They are not the point. There is no pet to feed, no world to maintain, nothing that keeps your child in the app once the real routine is done. The chest opens because the bed got made. Then the app gets out of the way. WHEN GETTING STARTED IS THE HARD PART Some children stall at the start of a step, lose the thread halfway, or finish one thing with no idea what follows. Visible, ordered sequences are a familiar tool in those households, including families supporting autistic children. If ADHD is part of your picture, the useful thing is not another reminder. It is the routine living on the screen instead of in your voice. That is the whole design. WHY I BUILT IT I'm Paul, and I have ADHD. The part of me that was supposed to keep my daughter's chore chart going is the same part that loses the car keys. I made her a paper chart. It lasted one school week. In week two I forgot to print a fresh one, and it sat on the fridge out of date while I gave the same instructions I'd always given. What I wanted was the real routine on a screen, in order, with stars my daughters could collect themselves, because I am not reliable enough to be a dependency in my own family's morning. And I'm still here. If something breaks, or you can't work out how to do something, you get me, not a ticketing system. Terms of Use: https://starrewardsapp.com/terms-ios Privacy Policy: https://starrewardsapp.com/privacy