Bebbo informs and empowers parents on various development domains: health, nutrition, safety and security, responsive caregiving, play and early learning, as well as caregiver well-being.
The content and tools featured in the app include:
- Ideas on how to engage in playful interaction and promote children’s motor and socio-emotional skills, language, communication and cognitive development.
- An extensive library of expert advice and parenting articles on topics such as breastfeeding, baby led weaning, and early learning.
- A milestone development tracker where parents can track their child’s progress. If a child has not met a particular milestone recommended for their age, the app will prompt a game or activity parents can use to support that aspect of development. In addition, a growth tracker supports parents to track measurements like height and weight.
- Health related tools such as vaccination records, notes from doctor’s visits, and reminders for doctor’s appointments.
- Information on how to identify disabilities, when to meet a specialist, and how to support a child with disabilities.
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The app provides personalized content based on the specific age and gender of the child that parents enter when they download the app. Users can also search for activities and articles by topic, age, or area of development, and save and share their favourite content. The app can be shared with a partner. Two parents can use the app simultaneously and set-up individual profiles for each child. The app can also be used by service providers in their own practice to disseminate information, receive games and activity ideas, and encourage positive parenting practices and health seeking behaviors by recommending the app to parents and showing them how to use it.
UNICEF country offices and government partners in each country can use the app to disseminate critical information to all users through push notifications.
