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Everyday Magic for Your Kids

Like Duolingo, but for Everyday Magic for Your Kids. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

9 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Monty the Magic Mouse
Everyday Magic for Your Kids
with Monty the Magic Mouse
9
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Everyday Magic for Your Kids

  • A child's 'why' is often a prompt for imaginative storytelling rather than a physics lesson
  • Providing a logical explanation immediately ends the magical narrative
  • Engaging with the premise of the question validates the child's sense of wonder
  • Admitting mystery leaves room for the magic to remain unexplained and infinite
  • Over-explaining magic makes it feel like a mundane chore or a machine
  • The parent's role is to be a co-witness to the mystery, not the authority on it
  • Recognizing when a child's question is an invitation to play rather than a request for information
  • The effectiveness of 'I don't know' in maintaining a sense of mystery
  • Logic vs Wonder domains
  • Wonder as a learning tool
  • Child's why as invitation
  • Logic stunting growth
  • Child as active creator
  • Effectiveness of I don't know
  • Child's imagination vs parent's script
  • Preventing broken magic
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Everyday Magic for Your Kids the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Power of Mystery

What happens to a magical story the moment you provide a logical, real-world explanation for it?

Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.

Course map

Where Everyday Magic for Your Kids takes you

Stop being the 'Explainer-in-Chief' and start being a co-conspirator in wonder. Learn how to protect your child's sense of mystery from the intrusion of adult logic.

  1. 1

    The Art of Not Explaining

    • Retiring the Logic Reflex
    • Staging the Unseen
  2. 2

    Protecting the Spark

    • Navigating the 'Is It Real?' Question

2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Everyday Magic for Your Kids is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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