Parenting Reminder app review: get a tip a day on how to be a better parent

Introduction

Parenting Reminder by AAWE Development Inc. is an app that is meant to help you become a better parent, one day at a time. Please note that this app is directed at parents of children who are three years old or younger and will not work if you input information stating your child is older than that.

Get Some Tips

The premise of this app is simple: you get one tip a day, sent to you like a notification, so you don’t even have to launch the app to see it. You can set the time you will receive the tip; the default time is 8:00 AM.

Types of tips you will receive include “(child’s name) is learning about the world around her. Discipline at this point is not likely to be effective.” That’s for a child who is around 11 months old.

 

What You Can Do With It

Options with this app include the ability to give feedback on bugs or give “praise” – they ask for a five-star rating on iTunes.

The Settings tab allows you to turn the daily notifications on or off, set the notification time, and input the email you’d like to use to share tips (sharing is a premium option). You can also edit your kid’s information (and yes, they refer to your child as “kid” through the entire app. Some people might take offense to this.

If you want to save or share tips, you’ll have to update to the premium version, which costs $3.99. There are other in-app purchases ranging from $0.99 to $9.99. I’m not sure what the Packs do, since there’s no information I can find on them within the app and the iTunes description page doesn’t say either.

The caveat here is that we’re not sure what kind of parenting philosophy the developers follow. Is it a nurturing attachment parenting kind of thing, or more of a cry-it-out, punish all the children type philosophy? There’s no way to know until you start seeing more tips, and with only one a day, that could take a while.

The ratings and feedback seem positive.

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• You can set it to send you daily notifications so you don’t have to remember to launch the app to view your daily tip
• Easy to use

 

Con

• We don’t know the parenting philosophy this app follows
• Really basic interface with no features in the free version; you can’t share or even save daily tips without paying the $4 to upgrade.

Final Verdict

This probably isn’t an app I’ll be keeping. First of all, my daughter is five, so it doesn’t apply, and the baby I’m having in December isn’t born yet. Additionally, I follow a natural attachment parenting style and it’s not very mainstream so I’m sure some of the tips will be wildly inappropriate compared to what I believe.

Basically, if you’re curious and want some daily parenting tips, then try out this app. It’s free, so you won’t be wasting any money if you decide not to keep it.