Daniel Tiger's Day & Night app review: the perfect companion for morning and night time routines with your children

Introduction

Looking to instill good habits into your children's morning and night routines? Daniel Tiger's Day & Night is a fun and engaging way of conveying and facilitating habits that help your child get ready for school each morning and for bedtime at night, featuring children's favorite character from PBS KIDS, Daniel Tiger.

Parenting is a difficult undertaking, yet parents persist because they want what's best for their children. Games such as Daniel Tiger's Day & Night provide parents with a tool to support their endeavors to help their children grow up with good habits for health, productivity, and adjustment into society. Research also says that routine is beneficial for the overall development of children and this game facilitates that very well.

At $2.99, Daniel Tiger's Day & Night stands tall among other children's games in the same price range and has been awarded the Editor's Choice in the Children's Technology Review.

 

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Get Ready For School And Bedtime

Daniel Tiger's Day & Night features eight games, four have to do with morning routines and four for the night time ones. Each time your child completes a game, he will enjoy a related animation along with a cute song to help cement the habit.

The morning routine games are based around getting Daniel Tiger ready for school prior to the arrival of another character, Trolley, who will take Daniel to school.

To accomplish this, your child must help Daniel get dressed in his red sweater. Then, Daniel has to help set the table before he can have breakfast. When he has eaten his breakfast, he must then brush his teeth and finally pick out a pair of shoes to wear to school.

The evening routines are based around getting Daniel ready for bed. He must first wash up, then brush his teeth, pick out a pair of pajamas, and finally help him drift through the clouds and into a deep sleep as his mother narrates a story.

 

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Making The Habit

These eight games have a song associated with them, so when your child has to perform these activities, you can sing them together to make it a familiar and fun activity. Furthermore, the timing and duration of each routine (such as brushing teeth) can be programmed into your iPhone or iPad to help your child stay on schedule.

Although I do like the features and the concept behind this app, my personal use of it left me wondering if it truly has enough of a “fun” factor to entertain and engage a child enough to accomplish the goal of setting new habits. Even if a child does enjoy it at first, seeing the same song and dance more than a couple of times might become uninteresting.

 

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Help your child practice important daily routines
• Set a timer for each task

 

Cons

• It might not be detailed or entertaining enough to keep a child's interest

 

Final Words

Daniel Tiger's Day & Night is a great iPhone and iPad app to encourage the automation of important daily habits that can be difficult to explain or imprint upon children. I would highly encourage parents to try it out especially if your kid loves Daniel Tiger.