A few weeks ago, Heather as well as I traveled down to L.A. to do a bit consulting with JibJab. If you’ve ever seen Elf Yourself, or one of those other on the internet holiday cards where people’s faces are added to a funny animation to produce a music video, then you are familiar with their work.
The siblings who co-founded the business are dads, with five youngsters between them. They have introduced a family-friendly product that my youngsters have had some fun with, as well as I want to show you guys.
The web site is called StoryBots, as well as this what you’ll discover there:
Music videos with a hipster flair. The animation of the StoryBots ABC videos are freaking cute. will you dislike me if I utilize the term Kindie Rock? There’s a tune for every letter of the alphabet as well as the robot characters who introduce them are quirky as well as irreverent. indication up for the web site as well as the music is complimentary to download (watching the videos is always free), or don’t indication up as well as pay $0.99 per tune on iTunes.
Personalized on the internet video experiences. What the heck does that mean? You can publish your child’s picture as well as his or her deal with will ended up being the deal with of the main character in the video. Do it on the web or download the iPhone/iPad app, called JibJab Jr. My youngsters like that we can save all of our faces as well as revisit the exact same videos over as well as over with different household members. enjoying Grandpa Barry cast as a tea-drinking princess is a highlight for all of us. The very first one is free, a membership charge applies to get a lot of them.
A complimentary reward-system app for parents. In my very first phone phone call with Gregg, the CEO of JibJab, he told me about the app he invented, Beep as well as Boop describing that youngsters make Beeps for great habits as well as Boops for poor behavior. You can set up a number of Beeps as a goal to get a reward. Boops will undo Beeps, so youngsters will begin to prevent them. That extremely day I told my youngsters about Beeps as well as Boops without the app or the reward as well as they responded to it immediately.
Gregg’s driving force is to make parenting a lot more fun, as well as I like that. sure we can checked out books by experts, research study as if there is a parenting test, as well as regularly question if we doing things wrong. Or we can have a sense of humor as well as look our whining kid in the eyes as well as say, “BOOP!” like Wendy’s paper ripping activity, it might be a overall mood changer.
Being such a severe trainee of parenting myself, I asked Gregg what kid advancement professionals state about bribes as well as benefits since I felt concerned that having BOOPS cancel out BEEPS was providing some kind of self-control message that may inadvertently damage my kids forever. He clearly believed I must lighten up. So, BOOP on me.
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As always, my thoughts on this site are 100% my own, even though our work with JibJab was compensated.