Notice. Celebrate.
Grow together.
Progress Path helps families recognise everyday effort, build confidence and strengthen connections through practical tools for family life.
The Progress Path family ecosystem brings together the Family Edition book, an app in private testing, employer workshops and The Growing Village.
Become a Founding Family Explore the book
Founding Families get the free 7 Day Recognition Challenge, one short email a day for seven days. Nothing to buy. Follow along through the daily emails, with an optional three page printable chart.
The Progress Path philosophy
Recognition before reward.
We notice effort, encourage growth and celebrate the steps children take, not just the outcomes they achieve.
Choose the experience that works for your family
Each stands on its own, and both share the same commitment to recognising progress.
The Family Edition
A complete guided journal for ages 4 to 14. Out 16 November.
The Progress Path app
For ages 4 to 16. In private testing. There is no public release yet.
Every family has something they want to work on. Where would you start?
Pick the one thing that is hardest right now. Leave the rest.
What each one covers, and where to start
- The problems these are for
- Perhaps mornings are a struggle. Perhaps homework ends in an argument, your child finds big feelings hard to handle, or you simply want more kindness, independence or responsibility in the house.
- How the packs fit together
- Progress Path sorts those everyday problems into four core packs, supported by the Daily Check In Diary and the recognition resources. A pack covers one area of family life, with prompts, logs, activities and ways to recognise progress. You pick the one that fits what your family is actually dealing with, and leave the rest.
- Where to start
- No family has to fix everything at once. Start with the pack that matches what is hardest right now: Behaviour for the difficult moments, Daily Tasks for mornings, bedtimes and routines, Emotional Growth for big feelings, Daily School Tasks for homework and the school day. There is no right or wrong order, and you know your child.
- If you have no routine at all
- The logs work whether you already run a tight routine or none at all. They give structure to a parent who wants it, and build one for a parent who does not.
- Behaviour
- Understand recurring difficulties, agree expectations together, and work towards more positive responses. It opens with a short stretch of simply noticing what really goes on, the patterns and the triggers, so you act on what is actually happening rather than what you assume.
- Daily Tasks
- Build morning, evening, school day and household routines that are manageable rather than ideal, shaped around the times your family really keeps.
- Emotional Growth
- Help a child name what they are feeling, reflect on what happened and build confidence. Feelings are never scored or rewarded.
- Daily School Tasks
- Homework, getting ready, responsibility, and proper conversations about the school day, before and after.
- Daily Check In Diary
- Thirty daily pages for the child and the grown up, including the grown up's own Something for Me space. It is not a separate parenting diary.
- Rewards
- The Gold Path, cut out sticker sheets, cut out love notes, reward notes and certificates. Cut out sticker sheets are included in the book. Separate physical stickers are not currently available.
A simple rhythm, not a project
Six steps, about ten minutes a day, repeated until they stop feeling like steps.
Choose a pack
The area you want to work on first.
Set a focus
One realistic goal, agreed with your child.
Notice the day
Log what actually happened.
Recognise effort
Say it out loud, that day.
Reflect together
What helped, what did not.
Celebrate growth
Mark the milestones together.
The six steps in full, and one real week
- Choose a pack
- Decide which area of family life you want to work on first.
- Set a focus
- Agree a realistic goal with your child. Getting ready for school with fewer reminders, for example.
- Notice the day
- Use the guided logs to record what actually happened, what went well and what was hard.
- Recognise effort
- Acknowledge the small steps your child makes, not only the finished result.
- Reflect together
- Talk about what helped, what did not, and what you might try differently tomorrow.
- Celebrate growth
- Mark the milestones together using the recognition system, so progress is something you both see.
- What that looks like in one house
- Mornings were a fight. They chose the Daily Tasks Pack, and agreed one focus for the week: shoes on without being asked. Each morning went in the log, the good ones and the bad ones. When he did it unprompted, somebody said so out loud, that day. On Sunday they talked about which mornings had been easier and why. By the end of the week the Gold Path had moved, and so had the mornings.
Progress Path community ecosystem
The Growing Village
Everyone has a part in helping children grow. Beyond the family there are carers, teachers, mentors and community organisations. The Growing Village is the wider community around Progress Path, and this is where it begins.
Founding Families
Help shape what comes next
Founding Families are the first families to use Progress Path. They are not a mailing list. They are the families whose real experience and feedback shape what Progress Path becomes.
Join and you will get the free 7 Day Recognition Challenge, one short email a day for seven days. Nothing to buy. Follow along through the daily emails, with an optional three page printable chart.
You will be first to hear when the book comes out, and we would always ask before involving anyone in app testing.