One Account, Three Children: Homeschooling Siblings at Different Stages

Three children homeschooled in one house are three different mornings. A five-year-old is learning to trace the letter a. A nine-year-old is learning what a fraction is. A fourteen-year-old is six months from a board exam. One curriculum does not fit them, one timetable does not fit them, and one parent has to run all three. Here is how one account does.

Three children, three classes, one plan

A yearly plan carries up to three children. Each is added with their own name, their own class and their own PIN, and each gets their own dashboard: their own lessons, their own quizzes, their own progress, their own credit balance. The second and third children are half price. Nothing is shared between them except the parent's login, and the parent is the only one who sees all three. The pricing is on the yearly plan page.

The five-year-old

Does not need an account yet. The Kindergarten playground is free and works signed out: letter and number tracing drawn from the stroke forms schools teach, counting, first words, shapes and colours, and two logic games. The voice is off until a grown-up turns it on. Kindergarten at home, week by week is the plan for this child, and they join the family account when they move to Class 1.

The nine-year-old

Class 4. Their morning is a lesson that advances one idea at a time and ends on a quiz, marked instantly, with credits at 50% and a retry below 80%. Their games are the primary band (word building, memory, block building, mazes) with spoken instructions and gentle first levels. Their dashboard shows which of their subjects is behind. Classes 4 to 8, when marks start to mean something is the article for this stage.

The fourteen-year-old

Class 9. Same engine, harder use: quizzes at three levels with the skilled level on a seven-minute timer, an answer review with the reason behind every correct answer, and a games band of equation solvers and logic grids. Their retry rule comes from the plan (two attempts on yearly) and their dashboard is the one to watch for the weak topic hiding inside a good average.

Three sets of rules, one PIN

Parental controls are per child. The nine-year-old's games might run four to five on weekdays with a forty-five-minute cap; the fourteen-year-old's might run after seven with an hour. Both are set once, behind the parent's PIN, and measured in the child's own timezone. Neither child can change the other's. Games on a schedule covers the setup, and why credits and games keep a homeschooled child coming back covers why the setup is worth doing.

What the parent does

Reads. Three dashboards in the evening, or (for the parent who would rather not log in daily) three opt-in monthly reports by email. Marks nothing, because the quizzes marked themselves. Teaches the parts that need teaching, which the dashboards point at: the Class 4 child's fractions, the Class 9 child's one weak topic. Prints a worksheet for the kitchen table when the screen has had its twenty minutes.

The shape of each child's day is in a day that runs itself; the whole road they are on, from the first letter to the first exam, is the student journey.