Easychild Standard Edition

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $39.99

Features:

• With the allowance feature each point earned or lost is worth a small amount of money. It is optional but very helpful in encouraging good behaviors and is highly recommended by psychologists to help give children immediate feedback.

Customer Reviews:

Best I've found! [Posted on 2006-01-23]
I have raised five kids and am now helping raise two grandkids. This is by far the best program I've ever tried. My grandkids can't wait to do their chores and earn their rewards.

EasyChild software makes a difference [Posted on 2006-02-27]
We originally setup the Easy Child Software program to use with our 5 year old and now we are adding our 3 year old into the system. We have used EasyChild to help instill values in our son of honoring others by his actions and words. We not only focused on daily chores and expectations but used it to focus on how he treats others and his family. EasyChild has been a much more positive method to focus on earning points to obtain the privileges he enjoys rather than a negative approach where he loses privileges when he doesn't do what is expected but no incentive to have good behavior. I have also been extremely pleased with the customer support your company offers. I reached a "live" person immediately when I needed help restoring my backup onto a new computer. The information they provided helped me to get the program up and running that day. They also followed up the next day to make sure I didn't need any other assistance. Very impressive with the lack of good customer help that I have seen with many other software programs. Thank you for making a difference by helping families train up their children using a positive approach. I have been able to share with other parents about the program when they are looking for something that works at home.

Great Idea , Poor Software Product [Posted on 2006-04-22]
The idea behind Easy Child is great, and if it were a better software program, I'd be absolutely in love with it. However, in the 3 weeks I've owned it, I've had difficulty with it. Last night I finished up printing out last week's reports, I went to bed, and this morning when I woke up wanted to print out the coming weeks' worksheet (EASY CHILD wouldn't let me do that last night), but OH MY I don't have any installed printers (Windows XP says I have 2)!
Apparently, Easy Child has a problem when it rolls from one week to the next. The first week I installed it, the product worked great until Saturday morning, when lo and behold, I didn't have authorization to use the software! 3 days later and multiple emails to the help desk, I was "authorized" again.
The product is inefficient (to print out reports for each child, the printer must be set up again and again) when it is working correctly, and is difficult to accomodate even easy modificiations to the system (for example, my kids are not required to do all Expected Behaviors for all 7 days of the week, but the Level Chart automaticly calculates weekly points and levels based on the child's performing the Expected Behaviors for all 7 days. Thus, I must manually force the program to calculate the levels the way it really works in my house)

Great idea, Bad Product.

some great things about program [Posted on 2007-01-10]
I have three kids 9,6,2 this program has been a lifesaver for our family our youngest does not have a preset one I believe the youngest one is for three and up but our kids have been doing this for almost a month now and have had huge improvements in the whining dept and fighting with each other. They now fight over who gets to help with doing chores and earning points It took about 45 minutes to set it up and every day about four minutes to do both childrens points I do it once a day for the most part.

I have not figured out how to set it up for vacation schedule for this program yet but I would recommend this program I have had other parents asking about this. I did have a friend of mine check out the professional version and she loves it.

Kids like the structure. [Posted on 2007-09-26]
I find Easy Child to be an convenient way for me to organize chores and the things I expect out of my children. I want them to learn that you don't get something for nothing, so it is great to tie their cooperation around the house to their income. They are slowly learning to take responsibility for themselves, and their rewards are going up. The reward system, linking the overall points earned to special priveledges, is good but I haven't figured out quite how to impement it in my family. Fortunately, the program is flexible. I do highly recommend it if you want your children to become more independent and self-motivated in their household duties.

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