The secret: Wondermint turns screen time and allowance into a currency kids earn that they can choose to spend, save, or trade.
Less arguing. More wonder. One source of truth for the whole family.
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The cycle most parents experience: You threaten to take the devices away — only to find that it's short lived. You feel guilty they've been on it all afternoon, but you also feel guilty taking it away.
The rules keep changing. Every conversation becomes a negotiation or argument — with your kid and with your partner.
Nobody's happy. Nobody's winning.
Turn both screen time and allowance into a currency kids earn.
Earning empowers them. And what they earn, they value.
Kids earn money and minutes (or points) by doing things that enrich their lives.
What they do with their earnings is up to them — they can spend it, save it, or trade it.
Kids earn minutes, money or points by doing real-world activities that build them up — reading, chores, practice, kindness, whatever you decide would be good for them.
Kids can choose to spend minutes on screen time and money on the things they want. The magic: watching them do the math in their head and decide — is this worth it?
In a world of instant gratification, kids learn to set goals and save up. They build the habit of saving — and experience the satisfaction of delayed gratification. One of the strongest predictors of long-term success.
Kids can request to trade their earned minutes for other rewards — a trip to the arcade, a friend over, something on their wishlist. Set the rewards as a family, and watch screen time get traded for something more meaningful.
Excess screens leave kids over-stimulated — irritable, restless, hard to focus. When they earn it, they use less of it, and everything comes back — including the ability to just be.
What used to feel like a given starts to feel like a prize. When kids earn something, they value it. When it's handed on a platter, it's more likely to be taken for granted.
Everyone in the house on edge and you don't know why? Turns out a lot of the tension and fights come from unmanaged screen time. Less screen, more serene.
Kids learn that screen time isn't inherently bad. It's just one of many things, and practicing that balance is the key to overall happiness and wellbeing. That's a lesson for life.
Partners, co-parents, grandparents, babysitters — one shared source of truth. No more "but Dad said." No more arguments and negotiations.
When kids are less influenced by what they watch and who they follow, they start being more themselves — the version of them you knew before the algorithm took over.
The apps our kids use are engineered by thousands of the smartest people in the world — engineers, PhDs, behavioral scientists — all working to increase time spent on the screen.
That's who we're up against. Not our kids. Not each other.
Wondermint is here to guide our kids back to real life — where the wonder is bigger than anything on a screen.
The joy of being present. Making things. Building things. Getting bored. Getting creative. Experiencing life. Nurturing their talents. Discovering what they actually love.
The awe of watching your kid being more themselves, learning, growing, and making better choices. That quiet comfort that maybe you're doing something right.
Calm instead of tension. Kudos and thank-yous circulating instead of arguments. A house where everyone feels a little more grounded, a little more themselves.
Dinner without phones. Weekends that fill up. Laughter and new experiences. Quality time you'll remember, and so will they.
A week into using Wondermint, our son started doing more of the things he loved — drawing, art, paper crafts. Then one afternoon, he made a whole board game.
That weekend we played it as a family. My husband and I couldn't stop looking at each other. The rules were thought-out. The card pieces were well designed. There was even an instruction manual.
We laughed. We got competitive searching for treasures and trying to escape the cave. It was the kind of Friday night we hadn't had in a while.
Kudos and Thank Yous are built into Wondermint. Parents can leave a note. Kids can send a thank-you. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, godparents, family friends — the whole village — can send encouragement that lands in one place, instead of buried in texts.
There's more thought in a written note than a passing "good job." And kids who grow up practicing gratitude tend to keep the habit.
It was really kind of you to help your sister with her math homework tonight. It meant a lot to her and to me.
Thanks for driving me to piano even when you were tired. Love you Mom ❤️
Grandma showed me the drawing you did of the boat. I put it on the fridge. It's really something.
Along with the joy and wonder, this is a place where kids practice the things that will serve them for life — one small decision at a time.
We didn't set out to build an app. We were simply trying to fix something in our own home. Our son was on screens more than we wanted — and we could see it changing him. He's sweet, creative, calm. But on screens, it was like he was a whole different person.
We felt guilty about not managing it better. It wasn't helping him grow, or learn, or become more of who he really was. It wasn't nurturing his talents and potential.
(And honestly? Our ears were tired too. If you know the sound of screaming, screeching influencers echoing through the home, you know.)
So we decided to make screen time something that's earned. Almost right away, we saw a difference.
The problem was — we had no way to track it well. Between two parents coordinating what was earned, what was spent, what was owed, it was a mess. So we built an app to give us one shared source of truth.
What came of it was more than we expected. It brought so much wonder back to our whole family. And it quietly answered a question we — and every parent we know — had been asking for years:
How do we give our kids the things we didn't have, without them growing up entitled? How do they learn to appreciate the good in their life when it's just… handed to them?
The answer had been under our nose the whole time.
When things are earned, they are valued.
We hope Wondermint brings your family the same joy and wonder it has brought ours.
Real-life wonder awaits — for the whole family.
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Any age you decide. Some families start with kids as young as 4 — learning that effort earns something. Others use it through the teens for real financial practice: saving toward a car, a first phone, a trip with friends. You set the activities and amounts for each kid individually — Wondermint grows with them.
No. Kids have profiles on your family account — not separate accounts. Both kids and parents can set a PIN — especially useful if privacy among siblings matters. Parents and co-admins always have full access.
Co-parents, partners, and even babysitters can be invited as co-admins. Everyone sees the same balances and history in real time. One source of truth means fewer "but the other parent said" moments.
Not at all. Wondermint comes with activities and rewards ready to go. You can customize them, add your own, or adjust as you learn what works for you and your family.
That's the beautiful part — it's your family, your rules. Wondermint provides the framework and structure, but you decide what earns what. Reading might be worth 20 minutes or $2. Weekends might be free. Educational apps might not count against screen time. There's no "right" way — just what works for your family.
Yes — everything's flexible. Kids can earn minutes and/or money as the default. If you prefer a point system, you can switch it on via Settings.
Trades and rewards that can be redeemed come prepopulated to get you started, but you can customize any of them or add your own.
It's not too late. Most families we know started here. Wondermint doesn't cut anything cold turkey — it just changes the mechanic. Screen time becomes something a kid earns and owns, and their relationship with it shifts naturally over a few weeks.
Yes. Wondermint is available on iPhone, iPad, and Android — download it from the App Store or Google Play. It also works in any web browser.
Try it for free for 7 days. If you see the change — less arguing, less guilt, more wonder for everyone in the family — become part of the Wondermint community. Join the families choosing calm over chaos, wonder over scrolling, and instilling the values, habits, and appreciation that kids will carry into adulthood.
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