Frequently Asked Questions

No. There’s no screen involved for the child. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time before the age of 2. Children that are exposed to too much screen time are failing developmental tests. Ex: they are finding children grasping for a ball with one finger, as if it's on a screen, rather than with all 5 fingers because they are unable to discern between 2D and 3D objects. If your child is going to be exposed to screen time, ensure the subtitles are on. Children that use subtitles, learn to read two years earlier than children without subtitles. Two years might not sound like a lot, but for a 0 to 6 year-old child that is nearly half of your entire life's brain development!

Tembo delivers fun, play-based activities the child looks forward to. This increases parent engagement between parent and child, reinforcing the parent as the child’s first and most important teacher.

Tembo is designed for children ages 0 to 6. 90% of the brain is formed before age 6, so if we’re going to educate the child, we must focus on where we have the greatest impact. What you do from age 0-6 impacts the child for the rest of their lives. It’s the most critically important time of human life.

Yes. All activities derived from research by Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child, Pearson, PBS, and LEGO.

Tembo covers all 4 core domains of early childhood learning:

• Cognitive

• Motor

• Language

• Social/Emotional

All activities take less than 15-mins per day, making them easy to fit into your daily routine.

Tembo sends activities 5 days a week—just one short activity per day.

Yes. You can select the time and day you’d like to receive the activities—morning, afternoon, or evening. You can change this anytime in your account settings.

You can choose to receive activities via:

• WhatsApp

• Facebook Messenger

• SMS Text Messages

For multiple children, we recommend signing up each child with a different phone number (e.g., another parent, grandparent, or caregiver's phone) rather than using the same phone for multiple children.

There is nothing to download. No apps and no screen-time. This increases parent engagement between parent and child, reinforcing the parent as the child’s first and most important teacher.

Yes. Early research Stanford performed showed that text messages increased parent engagement at home which resulted in almost an entire standard deviation increase in learning gains of the children in school. This is the equivalent of going from a grade of a 76% on an exam to a 100%.

“Tembo’s innovative vision is to maximize human potential, via children. They are our future! As Nelson Mandela famously said, “Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.” However, 90% of the brain is formed before age 6, so if we’re going to change the world, we must focus on where we have the greatest impact!” - Founder & CEO, Phil Michaels