Parenting guides
Developmental tech trees for technical parents.
A weekly parenting field guide. Toys, books, foods, routines, math, and learning paths organized by what your child has actually unlocked - not by generic age ranges. Each guide runs the same procedure: three gates (safety, motor/sensory, cognitive), a quick capability checklist, and a dependency graph of what unlocks next. Toys do not cause development; they afford practice. We try to keep the difference clear.
LiveToys - the three-gate model - 0 to 36 months
Choose Toys by Capability, Not Age
A decision system, not a toy list. Three gates (safety, motor/sensory, cognitive), a quick capability checklist, and a tech tree of 30+ toys from birth through age 3. AAP/CDC milestones and peer-reviewed work cited inline; cheap household substitutes where they work.
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Coming soonFoods - signal-driven sequencing - 4 to 24 months
When Is Your Baby Ready for the Next Food? (Coming Soon)
The same three-gate procedure applied to introducing solids. Readiness signals (head control, lost tongue-thrust, jaw opening, pincer grasp), allergen sequencing per LEAP, and the BLW vs. puree judgement call.
Coming soonBooks - language-stage matching - 0 to 36 months
Books by Language Stage, Not Age (Coming Soon)
Crinkle book, lift-the-flap, board book, picture book, early reader. Each unlocks at a specific language-and-attention milestone. The Sosa 2016 result lives here too: books outperform every other toy category for language input per minute.
On the roadmap
Other tech trees we are mapping
The three-gate / capability-first procedure generalizes across domains. Future guides:
Routines
the tech tree of independent play
Math
counting is not one skill
CS / computational thinking
object permanence before variables
Money
allowance as a delayed-gratification system
Language
naming objects is not the same as categorization
Executive function
waiting, turn-taking, rule-following as prerequisites
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