# Getting started for parents

From your account to your child’s first practice, step by step: sign up, add your child and check their progress.

## What it does for a family

Your child practices piano chords and scales in short drills.

You see their minutes, streak and goals.

The [For parents](https://pianokitty.com/features/parents) page has the longer tour.

## Your account

[Sign up](https://pianokitty.com/sign-up), or [log in](https://pianokitty.com/login) if you already have an account.

Then open [My family](https://pianokitty.com/my/family).

## Add your child

On My family you have two options.

- **Create a kid account** if your child has no email. Fill in the name and a password (min 4 characters). Leave **Parent's email** empty.
- **Invite a child** who has their own email address. Enter it and press **Send invitation**. They accept the email invitation. Then you see their week.

You can have up to 5 kid accounts.

![The create-a-kid-account form: name, password, optional email and Parent’s email.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/parents/kid-account.webp)

> The password is shown only once. Write it down.

## Your child signs in

Your child opens [Log in](https://pianokitty.com/login) and types the full login, for example kot482, in the Email field. Then the password.

The login is on My family.

## Check progress

My family shows one row per child: week minutes, exercises, streak, coins, last practiced and top goal.

![The family page with one child and the week’s numbers.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/parents/family.webp)

Open a kid account with **Edit** for the child’s page: sessions, goals and lessons.

![A kid account’s page with its login, this week’s numbers and links to sessions, goals and lessons.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/parents/child.webp)

## Phones and reminders

Add PianoKitty to the home screen: [Android](https://pianokitty.com/help/mobile#android) or [iPhone](https://pianokitty.com/help/mobile#iphone).

Then open [Preferences](https://pianokitty.com/preferences#prefs-notifications) and turn on **Practice reminders on this device**.

Do this on each phone. On a child’s phone, sign in as the child first.

> On iPhone and iPad, reminders work only from the installed app. Add PianoKitty to your Home Screen first.

## Set it up

- Try it: [My family](https://pianokitty.com/my/family): Create a kid account or invite a child.
- Try it: [Install on a phone](https://pianokitty.com/help/mobile): Android and iPhone, step by step.
- Try it: [Practice reminders](https://pianokitty.com/preferences#prefs-notifications): Turn them on for this device.
- Try it: [A first exercise for a child](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=chords&ct=0&bn=0,5,7&inv=0): Three major chords, white keys, no hurry.

Related: [For parents](https://pianokitty.com/features/parents.md), [Baby mode](https://pianokitty.com/features/baby-mode.md), [What the app tells you, and when](https://pianokitty.com/features/notifications.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/parents-start