Ideas, games, and honest advice for staying close to the kids you love across the screen.
Anyone who has tried to babysit kids over a video call knows this particular frustration. You are on the screen. They are in the room. And the room, from their side, is vastly more interesting than you are.
Most video calls with kids follow the same script. 'Hi.' 'How are you.' 'How's school.' Then silence, or a wandering camera, or a kid who's already walked off to find something more interesting than the conversation.
If you've ever tried to hold a five-year-old's attention on a video call using nothing but conversation, you already know how that goes. What holds their attention is doing something, not answering questions about their day.
Every parent who's ever considered a video-call app for their kid runs into the same objection before anything else: isn't this just more screen time? It's a fair question, and it deserves a real answer.
There's a particular kind of ache that comes with being a grandparent an ocean away. You see the milestones in photos instead of in person. You hear about the first day of school a week after it happened.
I build products in Lagos for families who mostly aren't in Lagos anymore. Most of the people who use JoJu Kids are calling into Nigeria, not out of it.