A daily practice for children · Classes 1–8
Give a child a word for the storm, and they can learn to ride it.
bodhi is a daily seven-minute practice that helps children name what they feel — quietly, through the stories we grew up with, inside the school day.
Why this matters
A child feels everything. They just don’t always have the words.
By the time a child is seven, they have already felt disappointment, envy, loneliness, and pride — often without a single word for any of them. A feeling without a name is a storm without a shore.
Schools are full and fast. There is rarely time to teach a child that the tightness in their chest before a test has a name, and that the name makes it smaller. Most of us learned this late, if at all.
bodhi gives a child one word at a time — gently, daily, in seven minutes — until naming what they feel becomes something they simply know how to do.
Across a meta-analysis of 213 programmes and more than 270,000 children, school-based social-emotional learning has been shown to improve wellbeing — and even academic achievement. (Durlak et al., 2011, Child Development)
The practice
Seven quiet minutes a day. Four small steps.
The same rhythm every day, like a good bedtime story. It opens, holds the child for a few minutes, and then closes itself. No notifications pulling them back. No streaks to break.
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Ground
A few slow breaths. The screen breathes with the child.
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Learn
A short story from the Panchatantra or Jataka, and one new word for a feeling.
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Practice
The child writes a little about their own week. A gentle helper reflects it back.
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Seed
One small intention for the day. Then the practice closes.
See it for yourself
One child. Three people who care. One quiet system.
The child practices. The parent witnesses. The school supports. The child is always at the centre — and everyone else sees only what helps them be kind.
Today, monday.
Welcome back, Aanya.
Seven quiet minutes. Begin when you are ready.
How we keep a child safe
The most important thing we built, you cannot see — so we will show it to you anyway.
A child writing honestly about their feelings is a sacred, fragile thing. We treat it that way. Every word a child writes passes through four layers of care before, during, and after it meets our gentle helper.
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We read for distress, first.
Before anything else, what a child writes is checked for signs they may need a caring adult — quietly, without alarm.
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The helper has one small job.
It is not an open chatbot. It reflects this week's word back, and nothing more. It cannot wander.
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We check again, before the child sees a reply.
Every response is reviewed before it ever reaches a child.
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A person is always reachable.
If something a child writes suggests they need help, a real human, their parent, and their counsellor are notified — within the hour.
Built to meet India’s rules for protecting children’s data from the first line of code — not bolted on afterwards.
- A parent can see every word our helper ever says.
- We never train any AI on a child's writing.
- We never sell, share, or advertise against a child's data. Ever.
How the AI works
AI is the scaffold and the mirror — never the teacher, never the judge.
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The aim is finer words, not more facts.
A child doesn't need more facts about feelings — they need finer words for what they already feel. Small, daily, one word at a time. We believe a child who can name their inner weather can ride it.
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The child is the author; the AI is the mirror.
The story offers a word; the meaning comes from the child's own week. The AI never teaches and never judges — it only reflects back what the child did, bounded to that one word. A mirror can't mislead.
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Humans write the spine; AI helps draft; humans approve everything a child sees.
The sequence of words and stories is written by people — a child psychologist and a scholar of Indian literature. AI helps draft and translate at scale, but nothing reaches a child until a person has approved it.
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Privacy is the architecture, not a clause.
India's DPDP Act sets one of the world's strictest bars for children. We're built to exceed it: a child's writing is never used to train any AI, never sold, never shown to anyone but their own parent.
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Automate the operations; never automate the trust.
AI carries the quiet work so a small team can serve many children. But the judgments that matter — whether a child needs a real person, what a child should learn to feel — are always made by humans.
This is how we build something that helps children name their inner lives, safely — and is still trusted when today’s child has children of their own.
The moment
India has decided that a child’s inner life matters — not just their marks.
In 2020, the National Education Policy asked schools to care for the whole child. Since then, the country has gone further: the Supreme Court has set out guidelines for social-emotional learning in schools, a national School Mental Health Policy is rolling out in 2026, and CBSE now requires schools to weave emotional regulation and life skills into everyday learning — and to keep records of it.
Schools want to do this. Most have no daily practice to do it with. bodhi is that practice, built for the youngest years — and the gentle report a school can show for it.
How we build
Built slowly, to last thirty years.
Bodhi Kids is not trying to build the biggest children’s company in five years. We are trying to build one that is still trusted when today’s class-1 child has children of their own.
That means we will grow only as fast as we can stay safe and stay honest. It means we answer every email ourselves. And it means there are things we will never do — which we have written down, publicly, so you can hold us to them.
Reach us directly at info@bodhi.kids.
Our promises
Things bodhi will never do.
If we ever break one of these, hold us to this page.
- Never send notifications that pull a child back.
- Never use streaks, scores, badges, or leaderboards.
- Never train any AI on a child's writing.
- Never sell, share, or advertise against a child's data.
- Never show a child's writing to anyone but their own parent — and a caring reviewer, only if they may need help.
- Never use a single dark pattern.
- Never make leaving harder than joining.
- Never charge a child to understand their own feelings.
- Never put speed ahead of a child's safety.
- Never stop answering you ourselves.
For schools
Bring bodhi to your school.
We’re opening bodhi to a small number of founding schools this year, chosen slowly. If that might be yours, tell us a little and we’ll talk — no pressure, no sales call you didn’t ask for.
bodhi comes to children through their school.
That’s on purpose — it keeps a child’s practice connected to the people who already care for them. If you’d like bodhi for your child, the most powerful thing you can do is ask your school to bring it in.