A quiet seven minutes.
Try the first phase — three breaths
The practice begins with a few slow breaths — the screen breathes, and your child breathes with it. You can sit with it yourself, right here. Nothing is asked, and nothing is kept.
Nothing here needs imagining — this is the practice itself.
the carrom corner · day 1 · class 3
Walk day one, as a child walks it.
nothing is kept — this is a demonstration. You can stop here at any step.
This is a published day, the day’s own text. No day reaches a child until a child psychologist has reviewed and signed the arc it belongs to. Tomorrow there is another.
Each day carries one word, and the words grow as your child does. The stories that carry them are written for this practice — from India’s storytelling traditions, in the spirit of the tales children already carry.
छूटा हुआ
left out
the quiet ache of watching others together while you stand outside the circle
from ‘the carrom corner’ — day one, class 3
भीड़ में अकेला
lonely-in-a-crowd
feeling alone even when there are people all around you
from ‘The windowsill gallery’ — day one, class 5
प्रलोभित
tempted
pulled toward something you suspect you should not take
from ‘the question paper’ — day one, class 8
The practice lives in simple English. The words on this ladder carry both languages — and what your child writes is their own, in English, in Hindi, or a bit of both.
And this is your side of it — the week’s shape and the week’s words. Each evening you can read what your child wrote, in their own words, about their own day. Evening is simply when most families find the quiet — the practice works at any hour of the day.
As your child practises, a small plant grows with them. It is theirs. It never wilts, and it never punishes a missed day. If you ever stop, everything already grown stays.
An illustration. Not a real child.
Your child sat with bodhi four evenings this week — Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat.
Their writing sits behind your PIN. Nothing on this page shows a word of it.
What we will never build
No streaks.
No badges.
No leaderboards.
No notifications.
No ads.
No AI trained on their words.
And missing a day costs nothing — there is no streak to lose.
Today we claim nothing.
What we will measure, when there is something to measure
Whether the practice actually settles into a family’s evenings — ritual consistency, measured plainly.
Change in children’s wellbeing on the SDQ, scored against Indian norms — not global ones.
A first public report after term one — whether or not it flatters us.
Until then, the honest number is none.
A parent can read their own child’s writing — no one else can, unflagged.
It is sealed at the database itself: the rule lives in the data, not in a promise, and it holds for us the same as for anyone else.
Nothing reads their words to judge them. A safety system reads solely to protect — the honesty page names both of its checks plainly. If it raises a note, a human reads that line — a trained reviewer here, and your school’s counsellor if your school has staffed one. Nothing is scored, and nothing is ever trained on.
Every story arc is reviewed and signed by a child psychologist before any day of it reaches a child. The publishing step itself refuses any day without her signed review on file. Her name stays off this page until she has given us her written word to use it.
the whole of it, including where a machine does read — read the honesty pageAnd while your child practises, there is a room kept for the grown-ups — the baithak, an evening sitting room. It is open to read without signing in, and it always will be.
blog.bodhi.kidsThe price, plainly.
Without a school code:
If your school has given you a bodhi code:
No code is needed to begin — the first 14 days are the same either way.
The first 14 days are free — no card. If you stop, everything already grown stays.
Some schools keep the practice together, and give their parents a code that softens the price. If yours has not — nothing is missing: the whole practice lives at home, and a curious school can always write to us.
hello@bodhi.kidsBeginning takes about a minute — one phone number, nothing else.
Is this more screen time?
It is five short phases, and then it is over.
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The practice is once a day: when today's is finished there is not another one to open until tomorrow, and the screen says so — today is planted, the story continues tomorrow. Nothing calls your child back to it either; no part of the app is even allowed to ask your phone to send a notification. And the last screen has no timer on it. It waits, and your child leaves it when they are ready.
Does AI read or talk to my child?
No AI talks to your child.
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The line that comes back after they write is chosen from sentences written in advance — never composed by a machine reading their words. One safety system does read what they write, solely to protect them; the honesty page names where and how. We never train any AI model on your child’s writing, and we never will.
What if we miss a day?
Nothing is lost and nothing is counted. There is no streak. The plant does not wilt.
What happens after the 14 days?
You choose a plan, or you stop. We will never interrupt a child mid-practice to ask for money.
What happens to my child's writing if we leave?
If you simply stop, nothing is deleted and nothing is hidden — everything already grown stays, and you can come back to it whenever you like.
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If you ask us to close the account, you do that from your settings. A waiting window opens — seven days, at present — and you can change your mind at any point inside it. Nothing can be removed before that window has run out. After it has, a person here runs the removal by hand — it is not on a timer, and we would rather tell you that than let you picture a clock. A few records the law requires us to keep, like a past tax invoice, remain.
Is this religious?
Bodhi is a Sanskrit word for understanding — the quiet moment of seeing clearly. We chose it for the small moment this practice is built around: a child putting a feeling into words, and understanding themself a little better. That is the whole promise of the name. The practice teaches no religion.
Passed along, like a book.
If the practice has settled into your evenings, you can pass the door on — to a friend, a cousin, the neighbour whose child yours plays with. What travels is one sentence about the practice and the plain address of the front door; nothing marks it as coming from you.
Nothing comes back to you — no free month, no count kept, no ‘invite five friends’. One seat, one family, when someone comes to mind.
pass the door onIf no one comes to mind, leave this be.
Whenever you’re ready.
begin — the first 14 days are free