9/6/2023 0 Comments Daily schedule for kids app![]() ![]() He’s my number-one tester and is already promoting it to his friends at school. Leo helped us pick the company name by deeming it to be “fun, but not too babyish.” Brili means “to shine” in Esperanto, in case you were wondering. He also starred in an early Brili concept video and later helped me choose fonts, color schemes, and sound effects for the app. Leo reviews design mockups and tells me what he thinks of them. It’s been a blast, in part because I love creating useful things with cool technologies, but also because Leo, now 10, helped me design the software. Since then, I’ve devoted my time, and much of my savings, to assemble a small team of talented people to create Brili, a visual schedule and daily routine manager for kids, on tablets and mobile devices. Although I could have landed a similar job in the marketing industry, I now had a much more important (and satisfying) goal to pursue. That changed at the end of March 2014, when I got “restructured.” I took it as a sign. With my full-time job, though, there wasn’t much time to work on it. We saw right away how it might help Leo, but we also saw the potential to help many other families. By making visual schedules interactive and connected, they could become easy, powerful, beautiful, and fun. One day, my fiancée, Stasha, said, “Hey! What you’re doing with the TVs could be good for Leo’s routines.” As all this was happening at home, I was tinkering on a side project to set up big-screen TVs to display project information for employees at the company where I was working. I’ve been a manager and tech nerd for most of my career in digital advertising. The transitions were expected and consistent. Leo responded particularly well to printed visual schedules and lists that we would post, so he could see his routine tasks and their order. ![]() This is due, in large part, to better structure and consistency in how we manage daily routines. I’m relieved to say things are much better today. That didn’t solve all problems, but over time, we got good advice from psychologists, kid-behavior experts, and the many books they recommended. It took a while to obtain the professional help we needed, but Leo was eventually diagnosed and treated for ADHD. After cooling off from one noisy episode, he hugged me and said, “Daddy, I want to be good, but sometimes I just can’t.” Even Leo realized something had to change. After-school and bedtimes were also not awesome.Īs Leo’s behavior became more challenging, our confidence in our parenting abilities evaporated. Getting ready for school and out the door involved more yelling than I’d care to admit. Leo, our wonderfully bright, witty, and headstrong six-year-old son, wasn’t coping well with mornings. A few years ago, we were on the verge of going nuts. ![]()
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