Milepost: Ontario Parenting

Ontario expects a lot of a parent, on a schedule nobody hands you. A child starts Junior Kindergarten in September of the calendar year they turn 4, which catches most parents out by a year. Registration opens the January before that. Child care waitlists run into years, because subsidised fees pushed demand well past the number of spaces. Immunization records have to be reported to your public health unit by you, not by your doctor. None of this arrives in one place, and missing a window usually means waiting for the next cycle. Milepost takes one date of birth and lays the whole thing out. WHAT IT WORKS OUT FOR YOU The school year, automatically. Junior Kindergarten, Senior Kindergarten and Grade 1 all fall out of the birth year. A child born on 31 December starts JK the September they are still 3, and Milepost knows that. Registration windows, before they open. Kindergarten, before and after school care, French immersion, summer camp and fall recreation, each with enough lead time to actually do something about it. Immunizations and checkups, on Ontario's schedule, including the 18 month enhanced well-baby visit that is longer than a routine appointment. The paperwork nobody reminds you about. Birth registration, the Canada Child Benefit, an RESP, and the immunization record your public health unit needs on file before the first day of school. YOUR OWN SCHOOL BOARD Every publicly funded school in Ontario is built into the app, 5,822 of them across 85 boards. Pick your child's school and the kindergarten and immunization items point at your own board instead of a provincial page. IN FRENCH TOO The whole app, not only this page. Set your phone to French and every screen, deadline and explanation follows, with the Ontario words: maternelle, jardin d'enfants, conseil scolaire. MORE THAN ONE CHILD Add as many as you have. The timeline merges them and colour codes them, and you can filter down to one when you need to. ALSO IN THERE A family calendar for the appointments Milepost does not know about. Reusable checklists for the daycare bag and the registration paperwork. Reminders that arrive in the morning, ahead of a window rather than on the day it shuts. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign up. No server, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers. Your children's names and birthdays are stored on your device and are never sent anywhere. The school directory ships inside the app, so even choosing a school makes no network request. Milepost works with no connection at all. ONE HONEST CAVEAT Registration windows differ by school board and by municipality, and they move every year. Milepost tells you roughly when to look and links you to the authority that publishes the real date. It is not the authority itself, and it does not pretend to be. Made in Ontario by Antipode Technologies.