Serve and Return — Early Words

Serve & Return is a coach for you — the grown-up — not another screen for your child. Tell it the book you're reading tonight and, in about ten seconds, it gives you three warm, specific questions that get your little one talking — for any book you own, written right on your phone. And any time of day, catch a moment: tap what your child just did — pointed, babbled, told you a story — and get a warm way to answer it. It's built on a simple, well-loved idea from child development: children grow language through responsive back-and-forth ("serve and return") and by turning shared books into conversation (dialogic reading). Serve & Return turns that science into the exact sentence to say in the next thirty seconds. WHAT YOU GET • Three warm questions for any book, in about ten seconds • "Catch their serve" — what to say for whatever your little one just did • Gently tuned to your child's age, from 0 to 6 • A private words journey to remember their first words • Little stories to practise on when there's no book to hand • Encouraging and descriptive — never a score, never a comparison to other children PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no analytics — no networking at all. It works fully in airplane mode, and nothing about your child ever leaves your phone. Made by a developmental psychologist, for the tired, loving, ordinary moments of parenting — not the anxious ones.