Stop fighting over homework.Start hearing about their day.

Dear Mama,

There are only two kinds of afternoons in a house with a Grade 3 kid. The one where you ask and get an answer. And the one you actually have.

And the phone.

You hand it over the minute they get home. You've got something to finish, and it's the easiest way to keep them quiet.

An hour or two later, most moms are trying to get it back. And losing. And someone's crying.

Then you lie there wondering what two hours of that did to them.

Then after dinner.

The dishes aren't done, the notebook comes out, and the lesson looks nothing like the one you learned.

In most houses, somebody raises their voice. And most moms feel bad about it that same night.

Somebody goes to bed hurt. And the sorry never gets said, because by then everyone's too tired to say it.

I'm a mom like you.

Three kids, Grade 1, 3 and 4, one kitchen table. My husband built SiribKidz. I made sure it survived our house first.

Every lesson, every "sorry po" line, every bag-packing photo got tried on my own three. Whatever made them roll their eyes got thrown out.

Here's what I learned, and it surprised me.

In most houses the screen takes it first. By the time you get the phone back, the hour's gone, the patience is gone, and what's left is after dinner.

It used to be the afternoon was yours to fill. Now the screen fills it first. The lesson looks nothing like yours. The tutor comes twice a week.

And the only hour left is the one after work, when your patience already got used up on the way home.

And that's why we stopped fighting the screen for the hour. We put the studying inside it.

Her name is Luzabee.

She lives on the same phone you were fighting over, in that same first hour home, instead of YouTube.

The screen time you already lose becomes the study time you wanted.

And it stops on its own.

What she does every school day

Your child tells her what they took up in class. They say it or type it, that's all. She finds the exact DepEd MATATAG lesson for their grade and quarter.

She teaches it the way a patient tutor would, in the language the class uses: English subjects all in English, Filipino subjects all in Filipino, never mixed. Then she quizzes them. Miss one? A hint, and a second try. She never, ever gives the answer.

How long does it take? As long as their school day needs. Short on a light day. Longer when there's an assignment.

And a full week of review when you snap the teacher's exam pointers.

But here is the part we care about most

Here's what I noticed at home.

My kids started telling me about their day.

At the sink. In the tricycle. At bedtime.

Not because I asked better. Because for the first time they had something to tell, and someone had already listened to them say it once.

That's the real product. Not a study app.

A way back into their day, so you're part of the road they're on, wherever it goes.

Because all any of us want, in the end, is for them to be okay.

And grades are only one kind of okay. Maybe your child shines at drawing, or dancing, or looking after a little brother or sister.

Every child is smart in their own way. Our job isn't to rank them. It's to help them build small habits, trust us, get listened to, and feel supported at their own level.

That's what SiribKidz is built for. You'll see it for yourself in the first week.

Which brings us to the four things no homework app does. They are below, with the real screens.

What we promise is a child who studies every school day, understands what they studied, and has something to tell you tonight.

The marks tend to follow.

Even when they wobble, the two of you don't.

Yours, from one family to another,The Luzabee family