How To Use The Parental Discard App

This app is for parents, grandparents, and family members living Parental Discard. It gives you a daily structure: Plan for hard dates before they arrive, set reachable goals, track your days, and use tools that interrupt intrusive thinking. No login. No account. Free.

Install It On Your Phone

iPhone: Open parentaldiscard.com/app in Safari. Tap the Share square at the bottom. Tap Add to Home Screen. The app icon appears with your other apps.

Android: Open the link in Chrome. Tap the three dots at the top right. Tap Install app.

The Calendar

The app opens here. This is for the dates you already know will be hard: Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries. Chose a sticker below the grid, tap the date, type what you will do that day. On that date, your plan is there. Planning before the date is what keeps it from knocking you down.

Today: Goals And The Jar

Tap Today. Type up to three small goals. The clock button means you started it. The check means you finished it. The arrow moves it to tomorrow.

Below the goals is a short daily log: How your body felt, how you slept, if you ate, was it your opinion healthy or not, moved, got outside. Tap one dot per line, move the slider, tap Drop It In. One colored piece drops into the jar for every day you log. The jar shows you the month you actually lived, including the hard days.

Create

Tap More, then Create. This page exists because doing something with your hands calms the brain when thinking will not. Color a mandala. Draw, and tap any color dot to change your ink color. Write what happened on a note, pin it to the board, drag it anywhere. Pin photos. Make a card with one word on the front and your own line on the back.

Build: The Tools

Eight exercises based on how the brain works under this kind of stress: Breathing, grounding through your five senses, memory and pattern games, timed writing, Tetris.

Announcements or updates will post here.

The first month the mini directions will remain as the announcement, then moved to their own landing page linked in the app. Visit daily to keep up your momentum and scores. Building Pathways Together.

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Send Someone This App

Tapping the button opens a text message with the link already written. Pick the person, hit send. Or copy the link yourself: parentaldiscard.com/app

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