I have been signed up for Pathways since my daughter was 19 weeks old as I was looking for information in Milestone timelines and how to entertain her since she hadn’t started daycare still. I’ve learned so much from their service, my daughter is now a month away from 2 years old and we have enrolled our 7 week old son.The app is what takes Pathways from good to great as it is extremely user-friendly, simple to navigate, and still packs that great information in. I love using it and seeing new and easy ways to entertain our kids while keeping their minds stimulated. While my daughter has started daycare and my son will soon, I look forward to using the app and learning more about early childhood development from it. I can’t recommend Pathways or their app enough!

I love this app! I’m a home visitor and I recommend it to all my clients as a way to find simple activities to do throughout the week instead of just the one thing they do with me every week… and the activities with videos and explanations are SUCH a great way to help families understand how easy and simple it is to play with their babies while strengthening connection and development. HOWEVER, while I think the activities/milestone tracking side of the app is fairly well developed, I think it would be really great if there was a bit more time put into the developing the logging daily routines like diapers, feedings, etc. This COULD be such a super helpful feature to families with medically high needs families, parents that are learning parenting skills, parents that are tracking new foods etc, but it’s fairly limited to just diapers, bottles/nursing, tummy time, and infant massage… all great things, but if parents could ALSO track solid foods, naps/sleep, even track mood or growth, add notes to activities about if the child liked it or they should try it again later… These things would be such a benefit to families that have multiple caregivers, work with babysitters or kinship care, parents that are on opposite schedules, new foster parents etc, who are all overwhelmed with having a young child and frankly, I think THOSE features could draw them in to using the app and really help support a family as a whole in more areas than JUST milestones.

I’m so impressed by how much information is available through the app. I like how you can check off the milestones and abilities within each domain; this feature simultaneously serves as a reminder of what is on the horizon. Because there is so much information available, it can be tricky to navigate as it can be visually overwhelming. Being able to see all options within a category at once instead of having to scroll through could improve accessibility. I also appreciate the glossary - it helps combat the issue I mentioned as I can more easily search a term and then relevant information populates from there.

If you were like me, you struggle with knowing what activities will stimulate your baby and help them grow! AND when you Google it the internet just provides you with another toy your little needs! I love that this app bases the activities around where your baby ‘should’ be developmentally and caters activities that will help build those abilities/milestones. The videos, checklists, and articles make using the app easy and fun! I have nothing bad to say and the activities continue to challenge my 7 month old!