Daily Screen-free lessons for Growing Minds
Tembo sends you interactive, parent-lead activities proven to boost your child's readiness for school!
Get a science-backed activity to do with your child by SMS, WhatsApp, or Messenger each day. No apps. No screens. Just you, your child, and a few minutes of fun!
Your child deserves a head start.
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How Tembo Works
1. Receive
Receive activities each day via SMS, WhatsApp, or Facebook Messenger
2. Engage
Lead the activity with your child - they learn something new every day!
3. Thrive
Watch your child excel in school and life with a leg up on an excellent foundation
What Parents are Saying About Tembo
It enables me to spend quality time with my child instead of handing over a smartphone or tablet.
My daughter enjoys learning now more than ever before. With Tembo, my daughter always wants to learn.
His teacher describes him as the fastest learner in his class so that's the best thing you have done for me.
Life is super busy for me so a daily evidence-based and age-appropriate activity for education and growth is wonderful
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is there any screen time involved?
Nope! There's no screen involved for your child. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before the age of 2. Children that are exposed to too much screen time are failing developmental tests. Ex: they are finding children grasping for a ball with one finger, as if it's on a screen, rather than with all 5 fingers because they are unable to discern between 2D and 3D objects. If your child is going to be exposed to screen time, ensure the subtitles are on. Children that use subtitles, learn to read two years earlier than children without subtitles. Two years might not sound like a lot, but for a 0 to 6 year-old child that is nearly half of your entire life's brain development!
What kind of activities does Tembo provide?
Tembo delivers fun, play-based activities the child looks forward to. This increases parent engagement between parent and child, reinforcing the parent as the child’s first and most important teacher.
What age group is Tembo for?
Tembo is designed for children ages 0 to 6. 90% of the brain is formed before age 6, so if we’re going to educate the child, we must focus on where we have the greatest impact. What you do from age 0-6 impacts the child for the rest of their lives. It’s the most critically important time of human life.
What is the science behind the activites?
All activities derived from research by Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child, Pearson, PBS, and LEGO. Early research Stanford University performed showed that text messages increased parent engagement at home which resulted in almost an entire standard deviation increase in learning gains of the children in school. This is the equivalent of going from a grade of a 76% on an exam to a 100%.
What areas of development do the activities cover?
Tembo covers all 4 core domains of early childhood learning: Cognitive Development, Motor Skills, Language Efficacy, and Social/Emotional Intelligence
How much time do the activities take?
All activities take less than 15-mins per day, making them easy to fit into your daily routine.
How often are the activities sent?
Tembo sends activities 5 days a week—just one short activity per day.
Do I need to download anything?
There is nothing to download. No apps and no screen-time. This increases parent engagement between parent and child, reinforcing the parent as the child’s first and most important teacher.
Can I get lessons for each of my children?
For multiple children, we recommend signing up each child with a different phone number (e.g., another parent, grandparent, or caregiver's phone) rather than using the same phone for multiple children.