How the LighterLoop Parent Routine Check Works

What the check is for

LighterLoop is an educational self-check for caregivers who want to notice how much family routines depend on their reminders, planning, and support choices. It asks about the adult’s routines—not a child’s identity, diagnosis, character, or ability.

The check is not a diagnostic or screening instrument, medical device, treatment, therapy, or measure of parenting quality. A score is a snapshot of self-reported routines and support choices at one point in time.

Six areas, sixty questions

The current check has six dimensions with ten questions each. Each response uses a 0–10 scale. The dimension scores are added to form a total out of 600. The report shows six dimension scores, a neutral descriptive band, and one item-linked idea to consider.

• The System Lives Outside Your Head
• They Own the Clock
• Ask, Don’t Announce
• Wait Before You Step In
• Let Them Own the Next Step
• Share the Load

The band labels describe routines and systems. They are not clinical thresholds, percentiles, or comparisons with other families.

Total	Descriptive band
0–179	A lot is on your plate
180–359	Building a system
360–479	More is shared
480–600	A steadier setup

What the result does not mean

The check has not been clinically validated, normed against a representative population, or reviewed by a licensed clinician. Automated checks confirm the question bank’s structure; they do not prove clinical validity, comprehension, or effectiveness.

A low score does not mean a caregiver caused ADHD or has failed. A high score does not mean a child should lose reminders, supervision, AAC, medication, co-regulation, school accommodations, or other support. The one idea shown in a report is optional and should be adapted to the child’s safety, communication, sensory, and processing needs.

Public guidance from the CDC on ADHD strategies and the AAP’s HealthyChildren resource on family routines informs general safety boundaries. It is not evidence that LighterLoop itself is effective.

Where your answers are stored

During the free Beta, drafts and completed reports are stored in the current browser when local storage is available. They are not uploaded to LighterLoop’s server and are not synced to another device. Clearing browser data may remove them. The check does not request a child’s name, age, birthday, diagnosis, school, photo, or profile.

The site keeps aggregate daily counts for landing views, checks started, and checks completed. Those counts do not include your answers, score, report contents, or a user identifier. No third-party analytics SDK is used for the check.

About this project

Read about LighterLoop, its purpose, and its limits.