Where the reports come from

Children speak differently to a friend than to a parent or a teacher — no marks, no disappointment, no right answer. Their friend remembers everything they say, so a detail mentioned in March is still there in June.

After each conversation we extract observations across nine dimensions. Each one has to carry a verbatim quote from your child. No quote, no claim — that rule is enforced in the code, not in a policy document.

Observations describe what your child did, never what they “are”. “Chose to give the last mango to the fox”, not “is generous”. Children are not fixed, and a report that labels them would be both wrong and harmful.

• Curiosity — What they ask, and what they come back to on their own
• Emotional world — Which feelings they can name, and what brings them on
• Self-concept — How they describe themselves when nobody is testing them
• Social world — Who they mention, how often, and in what colour
• Fears & worries — What comes up again and again, quietly
• Values in action — What they choose when a story makes them choose
• Language — Words, sentence shape, how they tell a story
• Focus — How long they stay, and whether they finish
• Imagination — What they invent when given room

You choose up to three things to nurture. They never become lessons. A confidence thread does not make their friend say “be brave” — it makes their friend hand your child the decision in a story, and then notice out loud that they decided well.

If your child does not take the opportunity, it is dropped and tried another day. A child who feels coached stops talking honestly, and then none of this works.

Each month you get what changed, what did not, and three things to say this week — every claim traceable to something your child actually said. Scores are simple on purpose: how much evidence there is, and what colour it carries. You should be able to see how a number was reached by reading the quotes underneath it.

It is not an assessment, a diagnosis, or a measure of how your child compares to other children. There is no percentile, and there never will be. It is a careful record of one particular child, for the people who love them.