EQ Ninjas vs Smiley Man Check

Kids deal with frustration, disappointment, conflict, and big emotions every day. Most of them have never had a clear way to practice what to do in those moments. EQ Ninjas gives parents a simple, structured way to help. Through short challenges and a belt system kids can understand, EQ Ninjas turns emotional growth into something they can actually work on. Each belt builds a different skill: WHITE BELT Recognize and name what you are feeling. YELLOW BELT Slow down before reacting. ORANGE BELT Keep going when something feels hard. PURPLE BELT Notice how someone else may be feeling. BLACK BELT Handle social situations in a way that helps things go well. The challenges are short, practical, and built for real family life. Kids are not just learning words about emotions. They are practicing what to do with them. For parents, that means you do not have to figure out how to teach all of this on your own. EQ Ninjas gives you a clear path to help your child work on things like: • Naming what they are actually feeling • Pausing before reacting • Staying with something when it gets hard • Recognizing emotions in other people • Responding more thoughtfully in everyday situations The goal is not perfect behavior. The goal is steady practice before the next hard moment. Your child can work on naming a feeling before the next meltdown. They can practice slowing down before the next argument. They can build persistence before the next time they want to quit. One challenge at a time. One belt at a time. One skill at a time. EQ Ninjas helps parents turn emotional intelligence from something they value into something their kids can practice. EQ Ninjas is an educational skill-building program. It is not therapy, counseling, diagnosis, or medical treatment.

A little space for big feelings. Smiley Man Check-In helps children name how they feel and choose a small next step, with a grown-up nearby. INCLUDED FREE - One child profile and eight core feelings for check-ins. - Small, Medium and Big feeling-size choices, with an optional afterward question. - Optional writing, child-recorded voice notes and drawing. - Core calming activities, starter stories and the Feelings Book. - Messages for Stormy Me: save a voice note, drawing, written note, helpful idea or a song you made as a note for another day, then open a note from happy you when things feel hard. Watch notes settle into your jar, keep full jars on your shelf and remove an individual note whenever you choose. - Your first Smiley Hamster and a gentle local Hatch Cycle: an egg hatches with the first check-in on the day after you pick it, then grows up over three more days. Extra check-ins cannot speed it up. - A refreshed Smiley Pet Park with local Sparkles, Buddy Bond progress, learned moves, a Pet Book and a Sparkle Shop. - The Music Room: play keys, guitar, drums, your own voice, a loop band and Follow lights, spin sounds at the DJ booth and keep your song on this device. Recording your voice needs a grown-up's Voice Notes setting. - A Pet Park dance party where your pet dances to the beat of your songs. - Hide & seek and Bedtime in Smiley Pet Park: find your hiding buddies with a flashlight, or tuck them into bed in the evening. - The Worry Jar: drop worries in, watch them settle, then let them go. Worries are cleared when you leave. - The Feelings Book: switch Recent check-ins between a familiar list and a Calendar view, then browse a month or the whole year. - Glow Day: your buddy grows in a full-screen moment, with a look back at how far it has come. - A free parent report with your child's week of feelings and one thing to try. SMILEY MAN PLUS - PAID SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED A separately purchased monthly or yearly Smiley Man Plus subscription unlocks additional child profiles, expanded feelings and stories, Smiley Man read-aloud, six Flowling friends - Confetti Rex, Rainbow Ghost, Smiley Sandwich, Mathematical Robot, Carrot Man and Smiley Squishy - additional Smiley Pet eggs, a month and year feelings recap for kids, parent report charts that show which tools seemed to help, a summary to share with a doctor or counsellor, optional weekly report email and Family Device Sync. Version 3.7 adds parent report charts and a weekly email that say what happened and what seemed to help, a month and year feelings recap for kids with Plus, eggs that hatch the day after you pick them, a full-screen growth moment, songs as Stormy Me notes, a new Plus page and fixes for deleting a child, the Music Room and iPad layouts. Core check-ins, the first Smiley Hamster, its dance party and core Pet Park play are free. Purchases and subscription controls are parent-gated; Sparkles are earned, never sold. Private iCloud Backup is separate from Family Device Sync and does not require Plus. An introductory one-week free trial is available on the yearly Plus plan for eligible Apple Accounts where Apple offers it. The parent-gated plans screen shows current availability, price and renewal terms before purchase. The yearly subscription renews after the trial unless canceled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Manage or cancel in Apple subscription settings. Parent patterns are conversation starters, not clinical conclusions. Smiley Man read-aloud uses audio bundled with the app; child content is not sent to an AI narration service. There are no third-party ads, third-party analytics SDK or cross-app tracking. Smiley Man Check-In is not a diagnosis, screening, treatment, therapy, medical, or crisis-service app. Privacy Policy: https://smiley-man-check-in.pages.dev/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/