Financial literacy. How money actually works. How to make smart decisions. How scams and clickbait hook people. How to cook a dinner, use AI without being used by it, and more. One 10-module program, taught at home, in the hours your family really has.
Free during the beta·No credit card·First lesson ready in about two minutes
Why this exists
None of that is a teacher's fault. There are 180 school days, a packed syllabus, and a list of skills that never makes the cut: money, media, scams, screens, AI. Those get learned at home, or they get learned the hard way as an adult. This program is the at-home part, so you have a plan instead of a nagging feeling.
Where this ends up
Your kid understands how business works and has the ability to start their own if they want. They know how to build the sign, and the logo on it too, with an AI tool they learned to direct instead of fear. The prices cover costs with room for profit, because they worked out both on paper first. Customers come and go. Change gets counted out loud. They understand supply and demand, cost structures, and how to leave with a profit.
That night at the kitchen table, they walk you through a one-page profit-and-loss written in pencil and tell you, to the dollar, what they earned. Then they tell you what they'd do differently next time. That part is the whole point.
That is week 10. Week 1 opens with a much simpler question: why is a ten-dollar bill worth anything at all?
The payoff
What's inside
One coherent track for ages 7 to 13. Each week ends in a project your kid can hold up and show you, and the whole arc feeds the capstone.
Why money is worth anything, what banks do with it, and what things really cost.
Compound interest, the Rule of 72, and why starting early beats starting big.
Discounts, tax, tips, and unit prices, plus the odds behind good decisions.
Main ideas, claims versus evidence, and how to summarize anything.
How headlines, ads, and clickbait persuade, and how AI fakes get spotted.
How free apps earn money, why feeds are sticky, and where scams hide.
The scientific method, hands-on magnet experiments, and real space science.
Prompting well, building a tiny app, designing a logo, verifying everything.
Cooking, planning, first aid, emails that get answered, and how taxes work.
Plan it, price it, market it, run it for real, and count the profit.
Getting started
You are the account holder. Kids are profiles inside, with no logins of their own.
Days, minutes, one kid or four. The plan shapes itself around practices and camps.
Run it together, or let your kid drive while you skim the answer key after.
Built to finish
You set the days and minutes, and the schedule fits around real life instead of demanding your family fit around it.
Flashcards resurface each idea right before it fades, and every lesson closes with a quick self-check. Spaced repetition and retrieval practice, the two best-proven techniques in learning science.
Lessons check off, the map fills in, the glossary grows. Your kid watches themselves getting somewhere real.
Week 10 is a real business your kid runs. The budget from week 1, the math from week 3, and the AI ad from week 8 all get used there. The finish line pulls.
Who made this
Many of us have full-time jobs and kids we wish were taught more in school. We have the same worry you have: your child can ace a math quiz and still have no idea what a credit card costs or how investing works.
We went looking for one program that taught financial literacy, decision-making, avoiding scams, screens, AI, and plain old life skills without lecturing kids or wasting their afternoons. We could not find it. So we created it, lesson by lesson, at our own kitchen table, and now we are putting it in the hands of families across the country.
Every video has been vetted heavily. Every answer key has been worked out thoroughly. And the bar for every lesson is very high.
It is free while we are in beta. All we ask is that you actually run it with your kid, and tell us what to make better.
Life Skills School
The careful-parent section
The long version lives in our Privacy Policy and Terms, written to be actually read.
Pricing
the whole program, while we are in beta
When the beta ends, new families will pay a membership. Join now, do a lesson or two, and your family keeps free access. That is our thank-you for shaping this with us.
Get started freeNo credit card. Nothing to cancel.
It is recommended for ages 7 to 13 (but can be used by kids of all ages) on one track that stretches up rather than waters down. Typically younger kids do it together with you, and older kids run most of it solo with a challenge prompt in every lesson. You can be as involved as much or as little as you have time for.
Most lessons land between 30 and 45 focused minutes, and the weekly hands-on project runs longer. You pick the days and minutes at signup and the plan fits itself to them. At four days a week the program takes ten weeks, and nothing breaks if your summer has other ideas.
Only if you want to. Every lesson marks what to do together and what your kid can handle alone, and the Parent Guide gives you the answers, the prep (five minutes or less), and what good looks like. If you can read a recipe, you can run a lesson.
No, and it does not try to. School does its job. This covers the subjects that never make the timetable: money, media, online life, AI, and the practical skills of running a life. It also slots neatly into a homeschool week as the life-skills strand.
The whole program is free during the beta, with no card and no trial clock. The plan is for new families to pay a membership once the beta ends. Families who join during the beta and actually use it keep their access. The only thing we ask for is honest feedback.
We store a first name or nickname, an age, and their schoolwork-style data like progress, quiz attempts, and journal notes, and we use it only to run the program. No ads, no selling, no sharing. The account belongs to you, kids have no logins of their own, and you can delete everything anytime.
No. On sensitive ground like media bias, advertising, and social apps, lessons show how the machinery works: how a feed earns money, how a headline is engineered, how an image gets faked. Kids draw their own conclusions, and the values conversation stays yours.
The program is built for exactly that family, because we are that family. Nothing expires and nothing scolds you. Lighten the week, take vacation off, and pick up right where you left off. Ten finished weeks across twelve calendar weeks is a win in our book.
Your kid doesn't have to. Ten weeks from now they could be handing you the profit-and-loss from their first tiny business. Create your free account and run the first lesson today.
Free during the beta·Founding families keep access·About two minutes to the first lesson