The turn is the whole thing.
A class is not a lesson with questions in it. It is a sequence of turns, and your child takes half of them. Everything else is built around protecting that.
she asks, then she waits
Live one-to-one classes · ages 3 to 6
Classes your child talks back to.
A preschool class built around the pauses. The teacher asks a question, waits for your child to think, hears the answer out loud, and answers back.
Runs in the browser. Nothing to install.
You decide how long she waits.
Children answer at very different speeds, and the usual answer is to hurry the slow ones along. Here the wait is a setting. Set it long and nothing moves until your child is ready.
3s6s10sAs long as needed
Someone your child already knows.
Classes are built with teachers families already watch, from the work they have already published — their own face, their own voice, their own way of explaining things.
Built with the channel, with permission
First partner channel
Kalam Kids · 300,000+ subscribers
The problem
Children this age learn to talk by talking.
Preschoolers spend hours in front of video that never asks them anything. What builds language at this age is the back and forth: someone asks, the child answers out loud, someone answers them. That is the part a screen has never done, and it is the part most parents tell us they want more of.
What people say
The teacher watched herself teach.
“It's amazing. So cool and can be so fun and revolutionary for home schooled kids or kids not in school yet. I love it.”
And then, watching herself teach in a language she does not speak: “I love that I spoke Urdu.”
Ms. Abrar — Kalam Kids
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“Being able to slow the pace right down in the settings is the thing. For my daughter that matters more than anything else, and the in-person sessions we were paying for cost a fortune.”
A parent, by message -
“As parents we don't want kids to have excessive screen time where they are just passively viewing. What I love is that they interact, learn and stay engaged.”
A parent, on LinkedIn -
“Amazing. Something I can see me using with my kid.”
A parent, on LinkedIn
What is different
Screen time that asks something of your child.
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Talking, not tapping
There is nothing to swipe. The only way through a class is to speak, which is the practice children this age actually need.
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One child, at their own pace
No group to wait behind and no hand to put up. The class is pointed at your child, and how long it waits for an answer is yours to set.
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Teachers children already love
Classes are built on the kind of warm, familiar preschool teaching families already watch, turned into something that answers back.
Get in touch
If your child is three to six, we would like to meet them.
There is a good deal of technology behind a class, including AI, but your child never meets any of it. They meet a teacher who listens. Tell us how old they are and we will set one up.
Request a class
or write to hello@hummingpod.com — investors and press, same address.