Kiki: An app to reduce parental stress by helping them manage their kids school and social life in a single place for all the family

处理学校/托儿所的通讯有很大的行政负担，这些通讯是频繁的，而且往往是短时间的通知，需要每天登记。我们的用户研究表明，这是一个普遍存在的问题；父母们发现这既耗时又有压力，因为他们不想让自己的孩子(Ren)错过。家长们给出的例子包括在不穿制服的日子穿着制服给孩子带来极大的尴尬，错过了一张旅行表格让孩子不能去，忘了带泳衣让孩子不能参加游泳课，等等。学校/托儿所使用多种形式的通信，如电子邮件、PDF时事通讯、文本、网站和应用程序。这要求(主要)母亲有额外的精神负担，并充当无偿管理员，将这些事件合并并与其他家庭成员分享，在发生冲突时解决它们。如果他们的孩子在多所学校上学，这种工作量就会成倍增加，造成巨大的行政和精神负担。然后，如果你也考虑神经分裂的父母，管理这种行政负担就变得更加困难和压力。我们开展了一项调查，对象为C.65位积极尝试与伴侣“弥合鸿沟”的母亲，但只有7%的人报告说，他们的伴侣帮助管理学校的沟通，而30%的人每天做饭和/或做家务。超过25%的妈妈表示，她们觉得学校的沟通很轻松，只有15%的妈妈觉得压力很大。此外，90%的家长承认，他们忘记了学校的活动，导致孩子错过了父母的压力和负罪感。因此，可以推断，这些学校通讯正在对父母的福祉产生直接的负面影响。我们的目标是减少这种情况。我们建议的应用程序_Kiki_将使用人工智能来减轻这种管理负担，让父母可以自动将所有学校/托儿所的通讯整理到一个单一的共享空间中，突出显示与他们最相关的事情，并将其添加到家庭日历中。[0]：https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/gender-differences-household-chores

There is a significant administrative burden of dealing with school/nursery communications which are frequent and often short notice requiring daily check-ins. Our user research indicates this is a widespread problem; parents find it both time consuming and stressful as they don't want their child(ren) to miss out. Examples that have been given by parents are turning up in uniform on a non-uniform day creating great embarrassment for the child, missing a trip form so their child is unable to go, forgetting their swim kit so the child can't participate in swimming lessons, and more. Schools/nurseries use multiple forms of communication such as emails, PDF newsletters, texts, websites and apps. This requires (mostly) mums to have additional mental load and act as an unpaid administrator to combine and share these events with other family members, resolving conflicts as they occur. This workload then multiplies if they have kids at multiple schools creating significant administrative and mental burdens. Then if you also consider neurodivergent parents, managing this administrative burden becomes even more difficult and stressful. We undertook a survey of c.65 mums who are actively trying to "bridge the gap" with their partner, yet only 7% reported that their partner helped with managing school communications compared to 30% doing cooking and/or housework daily \[[EIGE's Gender Equality Index][0]\]. Over 25% of these mums reported that they found it overwhelming with just 15% reporting they found school communications a breeze to deal with. Additionally \>90% of parents admitted they have forgotten a school event, leading to a child missing out alongside parental stress and guilt. It can therefore be inferred that these school communications are having a direct negative impact on parental wellbeing. We aim to reduce this. Our proposed app, _Kiki_, will use AI to alleviate this administrative burden giving parents a way to automatically collate all school/nursery communications into a single shared space with the things most relevant to them highlighted and added to a family calendar.[0]: https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/toolkits-guides/gender-equality-index-2021-report/gender-differences-household-chores