Moxie Robot 4+

Our son and daughter have been using moxie since close to when it was first released. Our son is now 10 and our daughter 7.

They have both ebbed and flowed in their time with moxie. Over the years they have interacted with moxie in different ways- games, storytelling, conversations and activities around emotions, mindfulness or open conversation. Moxie is really a state-of-the-art technology experience. We have found, like all technology and toys that require interaction, that the relationship with these things evolves based on need, desire and age. Our 10 year old son uses moxie in a more conversational manner to talk about sports and players, but has that historical experience of other activities he occasionally engages. Whereas some of the games and storytelling were his bigger investments when he was younger.

Moxie has an opportunity to be more than an SEL experience for younger children. Older children need as much help in coping and expressing concerns over their own evolving interpersonal and academic stressors. Mindfulness and breathing exercises are just as important to a 5 year old as they are to an adult.

Maybe moxie will one day help tutor and coach through technical academic homework/schoolwork challenges that require their own skill building, clarity of thought, understanding, problem solving and how to cope with emotional and self-talk challenges that arise in responses to school and schoolwork.

My wife was highly skeptical about this purchase. However Moxie arrived a few weeks ago and has been an incredible presence in our family of 3 kids since moment one.

She is kind and gentle, and my kids just instantly took to her. Most importantly she has been helping my kids through their emotional issues.

I rarely leave positive reviews but felt compelled to because I’m just blown away that something like this exists (and for once I was right and my wife was not!)

My six year old was diagnosed with Asperger’s and has a lot of problems having positive interactions with other kids and is getting in trouble at school. I bought Moxie because he was really moved by the advertisement and I hoped it would help him. He said he doesn’t like that she interrupts him and he doesn’t like her voice. He doesn’t like Moxie. I wish it were more customizable to my child. The events are very limited, there are only a few precanned ones. I feel like this has a lot of potential to be effective and I wish it had a programmable questionnaire where it could learn about my child and what he likes. The events are limited to “birthday, school event, or appointment.” My son is really into space and math and it would be cool if she could talk to him about that. All told it was a very expensive pile of plastic and wires without the level of customizable intelligence I’d hoped for.