Your child's day is more than naps and nappies.

The part most people do not expect

Every app like this gives you the record of the day: checked in at 7:52, 4oz at 10:15, slept 12:30 to 2:10, nappy at 2:20. That is genuinely useful, and you get all of it.

What your child's teachers can also write down is an observation — a short note about something your child did. Not a service performed for them. Something they worked out, tried, or decided.

Sorted the leaves into two piles he called "crunchy" and "not crunchy", and tested each new one by pressing it with a finger before deciding which pile.

That arrives the same day, in the same place as everything else, labelled Observation. It is written by whoever was in the room, about your child, because they noticed it — not generated, not assembled from your child's data, and not a score.

You will probably read some of them twice.

What else is in there

• The day as it happens — check-in and check-out, meals, bottles, naps, nappy and bathroom changes, what the room got up to, how the morning was going.
• Messages to your child's teachers, and notices from the centre, in one place instead of three WhatsApp groups and a notice on a door you walk past at 7:45am.
• Tell them about an absence without ringing at 7am and hoping somebody is near the phone.
• The things only you can sign — consent forms, and an acknowledgement when something happened that you need to know about. They wait for you rather than following you around.
• Your attendance code, for the tablet at the door, if your centre uses one.
• What is due, and a way to pay it, if your centre bills through KinderBee.
• Conferences — when one is offered, and a way to take it.

What it is not

Worth saying plainly, because a product that watches children is a reasonable thing to be careful about.

• There is no camera in your child's room. No live video of the room, no streaming, nothing to watch. (A conference your centre offers can be scheduled as a video call — that is a meeting you agree to, at a time, not a feed.)
• A photo only happens if you have said yes. Photo and video consent is yours to give and yours to take back; where it has not been given, the screen your child's teacher uses says so and will not let one be attached.
• There is no share button. Nothing in here posts anything outward. What a teacher writes about your child is for you to read — a photo from a room can have another family's child in the frame, so outward sharing is not a feature we have left switched off, it is one that does not exist.
• It is not a report card. Nothing here is turned into an assessment, a grade, or a prediction about your child.
• Your centre decides what to switch on. Some of the above may not appear for you, and that is your centre's call rather than a feature you are missing out on.

How you get it

Your centre sets this up and sends you a link — there is no account to create and no password to invent. If you have the email and it has gone quiet, or the link has run out, see signing in and sign-in link trouble. If you are not sure whether your centre uses KinderBee, they are the ones to ask; this page is public and cannot see your account.

One honest note

KinderBee is at a pilot, disclosed stage. The parent side is in real use and everything on this page is built today — but we would rather you heard that from us than worked it out. If something here does not match what you actually see in your app, your centre's setup is the first thing to check, and after that we would want to know.