Guides
The long answers
Five pages, written for the parent typing a question into a search box at eleven at night rather than for us. Where somebody else has done it better — a free book, a trial whose result is not the one we would have picked, a competitor who is the right answer for your family — that is said plainly and linked.
Carbohydrate and Indian food
Written for the family that counts carbohydrate every day, in a kitchen no Western app has heard of.
Carb counting for a child with type 1 diabetes, using Indian food
The carbohydrate apps a doctor is most likely to name are Western, and so are their food tables — none of them knows what one katori of dal or one vada pav contains. Here is how Indian carbohydrate counting actually works, where the figures come from, what the evidence says it does and does not do, and the free book every Indian family doing this should already have.
Read itWhat a school-day carbohydrate log should record — and what it should not
A log is written in a hurry and read three weeks later by somebody who was not there. That one fact decides everything about what belongs in it: the time, the food in the words your child uses, a range rather than a number, and nothing that was worked out rather than observed.
Read itPocket money
What to give, when to raise it, and what a child learns from money that is not real.
Pocket money without a card: teaching a seven-year-old about interest
Every pocket-money app in India is a prepaid card with an app around it, which is why they are all aimed at teenagers — a card is something only an older child can be handed. That leaves out the years when the lesson is easiest to teach, and the lesson does not need a card.
Read itHow much pocket money for a 7, 10 or 14-year-old in India?
There is no number, and anybody who gives you one is guessing or selling something. What there is, is a method that takes about ten minutes and gives an amount you can defend to your child — which is the only kind that survives contact with a ten-year-old.
Read itChoosing an app
Including the cases where the answer is not this one.
Short questions have short answers
5 guides here; the knowledge base has the two-sentence answers — what the money is, who can see what, what happens if a month goes unpaid. Every one of those is checked against the app itself.