New on ZisBoomBah.com: The Challenger Calendar – A Game for Achieving Goals
The Challenger Calendar is a game for achieving goals that can change your whole family's lifestyle.
…or the tool that does the nagging for you – in a good way!
This latest release on ZisBoomBah.com has the potential to become your new BFF… or be like a new family member, hands down. The Challenger Calendar is a great interactive game and at the same time it’s a practical online tool that saves you the constant reminding (aka nagging). Instead, The Challenger Calendar creates an organized, categorized list of goals (chores, achievements, things to do, etc.) for each child in your family and keeps track of her deeds online.
How The Challenger Calendar works:
We know you will forever love us for creating this free calendar tool. It’s so much fun, you can go ahead and call it a game. We do. ZisBoomBah.com’s latest release not only makes it playful and rewarding for kids to accomplish their goals, it keeps the whole family organized and on track.
You can create goal categories for each child from your dashboard (you need to be signed in). We already set up the three categories Food, Play and Creativity for you to get started. You can delete those or keep them and/or come up with your own goal categories; let’s say “household chores” or “new circus acts” or whatever you want your kids to do with their little lives.
Under each category, you add specific goals for your child to complete, e.g. under the category “food” you could enter “Pack snack for after soccer practice” and drag and drop it to a specific day on the calendar. You can even assign a goal daily, weekly (e.g. every Wednesday) or monthly. For each kid, you can assign three goals max per day (just a little child labor prevention mechanism we built in for good measure).
Wait, it’s still getting better: For each goal, you can assign a difficulty level. Kids earn 25 ZisBoomBah points for completing an “easy” task, 50 for a “medium” task and 75 points for a “challenging” task. With these earned points they can “buy” rockin’ accessories for their antvatars.
In addition to the ZisBoomBah points your kid will earn for achieving individual goals, you can provide your own rewards for the entire week, such as a day at the zoo. The whole idea is to bring your family’s online reality offline, so kids actually get to experience their rewards for what they’ve accomplished in real life.
Kids check off their goals once completed. Parents can see their kids’ outstanding and completed goals in the daily, weekly or monthly calendar view and get daily, weekly or monthly email alerts (you choose that setting), informing them what’s been done and what’s still outstanding.
Kids see their daily goals on their end. They also see how many points they can earn for each goal as well as how many total points they have already earned.
Aside from the goals given by a parent or teacher, kids may set personal goals for themselves, such as “Hit three RBIs during the next baseball game” or “Be more patient with my little cousin this weekend.”
Kids also have an online journal where they can write entries about their goals, how they liked your new tuna noodle casserole recipe or whatever else is on their mind. Only they will ever know. Parents don’t get to read kids journals on ZisBoomBah.com.
Question: My daughter did not complete a goal that was set on Thursday which I noticed by the daily status report. She told me she actually did complete it but on the following day. How would this be noted on the calendar? Also is there a way to notify her that I am giving her the reward I set up? Thanks so much, Carol
So far my daughter and I have been using the challenger calendar consistently. We always had trouble agreeing on a healthy and hearty breakfast that she wants on school mornings so I decided to set a goal this week for her to plan her breakfast each day. Today she chose strawberries, bananas and a protein meal bar. I was happy about the fruit and mildly happy about the protein bar! I found that she doesn’t eat much protein in the morning so I thought it was a good start!
Carol, to answer your question, if you are receiving daily reports and your daughter went back and completed a goal from the previous day you can view the completed goals on your Challenger Calendar. If she checks off the goal on her calendar than it will appear checked off (completed) on your calendar.
You will not receive an email for that completed goal that was checked off on the previous day but we are brainstorming about how this could be noted in an email for the future.
Thank you so much for your question and feedback!
Thanks for your reply. I do see all of her completed tasks noted on the calendar as you said. I think it is good that the child does not have to necessarily complete each goal on the day assigned.
We just completed Week #2 and I have to say Julia is very much on board. She logs in daily and I know that she is using the journal feature too. She even told me that she set up a personal goal of her own (jumping rope more) and I am trying to reinforce that by assigning a daily goal of jumping rope every day next week. Perhaps it would be a good feature to have the parent notified of the child’s personal goals? On one hand, I think we should try to help them achieve their personal goals but, on the flip side, since it is a personal goal and maybe they should do it entirely on their own. Would be interested to hear your thoughts…
Hello again! This week was my daughter’s first full week of school and she already had a lot of homework. Sometimes it is hard to achieve a good balance between work and play on weekdays. That is why I think the Challenger Calendar is a great family tool. Even if she isn’t able to complete all of the goals listed for the day, I find that the visual reminder makes her wants to complete them at her next opportunity. And I think it teaches her that sometimes in life you cannot do everything you set out to do and that is okay. Sometimes you have no choice and sometimes you do have to choose between what you have to do and what you want to do.
It looks like the daily status report has been revised to send the previous day’s completed goals. I like this better…
Still going strong with the goal calendar! Julia logs in every day. I am hopeful that the good habits we established this month will continue. Until next time!
We are winding down to the end of the month and our experience with the Challenger Calendar has been really positive. It takes only a few minutes a day for my family to log in, check the goals, and see how we are progressing. Going on vacation this coming week so I expect it to be more of a challenge but I set doable goals for my daughter to achieve away from home.
Hi again! Thought I would share some more of my thoughts about the Challenger Calendar. I would prefer to give the reward rather than have the system automatically assign it. This way, I could send a message along with the reward or an explanation if I don’t award it since the goals were not all completed for the week. At the least, I think the system should generate a message to the parent and/or child when a reward has been assigned.