Add a child

Children in Equal House do not have accounts. There is no email address, no password and nothing for them to remember beyond a picture code. Their profile belongs to the household, and grown-ups control it.

Add them

1. More → Your Account → Add a family member.
2. Enter their name and tap Child.
3. Set their date of birth, then tap Add member.

Both the name and the date of birth are required for a child. The date of birth is not cosmetic and it is not there for birthday cards: Equal House uses it to work out the child’s age band — 4–6, 7–9, 10–12, 13–15, 16–17 — and that band is what decides how much of the household’s work is expected of them, and which chores are offered to them at all. It is why a seven-year-old is never measured against a fifteen-year-old.

Got the age wrong?

Any grown-up can put it right in More → Settings → Children’s boards: tap Age under the child’s name, then give a date of birth or choose an age group.

A date of birth keeps up by itself as the child grows. An age group stays as it is until someone changes it, and choosing one clears the date of birth. A child Bric added when you first set up the household has an age group and no date of birth, so this is the place to give one.

Age decides the same things it did when you added them: which chores suit the child, how much is fair to expect of them, and how their board looks. If you lower a child’s age, this is what happens to their jobs that now need an older child:

• A job given only to them goes back to anyone old enough for it.
• A job that also names other people under Who stays with those people. If that is one person, it becomes theirs, as long as they can still do it; if they can’t, it goes to anyone old enough.
• A job that repeats changes the same way, so it stops coming to them.
• A job they have already ticked off stays with them until a grown-up looks at it, so it can still be confirmed. If you send it back, it goes to someone old enough, not back to them.

When a job given to them is affected, the app tells you before it saves the change, so you can think again.

What they can do

Once a child exists you can assign them any task that suits their age. Their chores are counted on their own board rather than in the Fairness Score, which measures how the grown-ups share the load, and they can earn pocket money for the chores they finish.

To let them see their own list on a device, set up Kid Zone.

Photos and PINs

A photo helps younger children find themselves on the sign-in screen. If you would rather they could not tap into each other’s profiles, give each child a PIN.

Removing a child

Open them from the family list and make them inactive. Their history stays, so past weeks still add up correctly — the fairness numbers for last month do not silently change because someone left this month.