What is HIRE and FIRE your KIDS?

The World's 1st Gamified Parenting App, that's reducing family friction & helping moms & dads prepare their children and teens with household responsibilities, money management and life skills for a successful future.

HFK is a unique method that requires an investment in your time to understand the game, set up & rollout BEFORE you play. The family app is a tool helping parents manage behaviors & chores at home using Recognition, Reward & Consequence.

Founder, Jody Swain explains Hire and Fire your Kids and how the HFK Method can help families.

HFK is helping parents raise their kids in the digital age by building them up today to be the confident, independent & happy adults of tomorrow.

Our mission is to provide parents the digital tools to effectively communicate with their kids and empower those kids to contribute to their households in a meaningful way.

People pay attention to what is being measured and HFK drives daily awareness around family expectations and more, changing behaviors through play.

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WELCOME - BEFORE YOU PLAY

Thank you

...for your interest in having a more successful household with our daily behavior and chore game. We are a family operated startup that's enhancing the app as we grow thanks to our test families and YOUR feedback! As Sheryl Sandberg says, "done is better than perfect." So we launched this minimum viable product and need YOUR help to make it better!

As with any Game you need to know the Rules BEFORE you Play. HFK is quite unique and will take an investment in your time (20-30 min) to understand the HFK method and proper set up for a successful launch. BUT once that's done it's SMOOTH SAILING parents!

Check out our TRAINING section to learn more and once set up is customized & complete, you can invite your players as you're Ready To Play! Ready To Play? (hireandfireyourkids.ca)

Please help us, share your family's feedback, ideas, suggestions (good & bad) as we'd like to know how we can continue to enhance the app and user experience. Can't improve or scale this MVP without you! :)

As the creator and founder of this company, I've poured my heart and soul into this little app. So excited that the HFK tool is resonating with families and grateful to be helping parents with the stress and mess of raising kids - Jody

Jody Swain - Founder 'Hire and Fire your Kids'

What's In It For ME?

WIIFM - PARENT

REDUCES STRESS

Less yelling
Less nagging
More time for you
More peaceful and tidy home

CHANGES BEHAVIORS

Less fighting
More engaged kids
More productive family
Siblings working together
Better behaved, less entitled kids
Kids learn valuable life skills

GETS YOU HELP

More fun and interactive way to get your kids doing chores
Kids that WANT to help and take initiative
Drives/aligns awareness of expectations
Tracks $$$ given on PayDay + history
Keeps household on track
More recognition for your kids
Keeps you and your family accountable

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WIIFM - KID

WIIFM - PARENT

REWARDS

$$$ PayDay
Winning employee of the month extra prize
Recognition from parents

FAMILY TIME

More quality time with family/attention from parents
Get along better with siblings & parents
Less family friction
Active part of a team

LIFE SKILLS

Feeling accomplished, proud, happy
Learning value of a hard earned dollar
Strong work ethic
Becoming more prepared/successful for the future
Practice delayed gratification

FUN

You can FIRE your parents
Play the Game to earn payday allowance
Equal opportunity for brothers and sisters
Pay Stub payment tracker

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Why Play Hire and Fire your Kids?

Unique Tool To Enhance Your Parenting Style, Change Behaviors Through Play & Help You Communicate With Your Family In The Digital Age!

Are you feeling frustrated with your Kids behavior?

Stressed out over your Kids lack of help around the house?

Tired of constantly having to nag your Kids to get off their device, brush their teeth, keep their hands to themselves, make their bed and on and on?

Willing to try the HFK Method to make your life easier and reduce your family friction

by getting your Kids to be more responsible, accountable & actually listen with minimal effort on your part?

Want Hire and Fire your Kids to work in your home?

Then stop giving your Kids $$$ for their wants and stop buying their wants.

It's time to play HFK and teach your Kids to EARN their wants!

We’ve developed a fun game-like method that won't cost you hundred of $$$'s.

The game allows the Kids to apply to posted jobs for

HIRE and allows parents to give warning X's and potentially

FIRE their Kids when they don't follow the family values & expectations.

Our game motivates Kids to take initiative using Recognition, Reward & Consequence. Teaching them how to respect your family values, manage their money, how to be a team player, be responsible and be accountable.

Join our “Test Families" and play our Free print "paper" version on this site

Download the app and help us grow :)

Hire and Fire your Kids

"Real World Game - Ready to Play?"

We Believe

OUR PHILOSOPHY

BE MORE THAN JUST THEIR BUDDY

By giving our Kids the opportunity to be contributing members of a team through daily JOBS and EXPECTATIONS, research suggests we're preparing them to be successful individuals in the real world. Our game-like system at Hire and Fire your Kids is a fun and effective way to achieve this.

BE MORE THAN JUST THEIR BUDDY

As parents we need to nurture strong family bonds and teach our Kids to be responsible, independent and accountable individuals.

THE GAME

BE MORE THAN JUST THEIR BUDDY

THE GAME

Becomes your Kids' primary income stream. Kids decide "to play or not to play".

Replaces your Kids allowance, no more money given at whim, helps YOU keep your sanity!

Helps Your Kids:

Understand needs and wants
Take initiative
Feel accomplished
Learn to be kind and respectful
Be a team player
Learn the value of a dollar

Come play with us!

Use the app and we'll even help remind you to recognize and reward your Kids more!

THE GAME

SET FAMILY VALUES & EXPECTATIONS

Think of your Family like a business - what are the company ("family") values and what is expected of every employee (“family member”).

Create your Expectations. These are things around family values, behaviors, 'must-do' chores, hygiene and manners such as be kind, hands to yourself, no yelling, wash your hands with soap, keep clothes off the floor, turn lights off, make your bed etc.

These Expectations will be followed by every family member, at all times, yep, even you too parents!

YOU’RE HIRED!

Then, HIRE your employees for extra jobs around the house! Create jobs (chores) for your Kids to be hired for. They'll choose as many as they want and earn extra kash or fun experiences of your choosing.

If you have 'must-do' chores in your house you can make these part of your Expectations, Kids would get a warning X if not completed.

They'll compete to be your family's top performing Employee Of The Month (EOTM) and can be submitted to our monthly EOTM contest for extra prizes & recognition from us!

YOU’RE FIRED!

Kids are encouraged to follow Expectations if they want to be eligible for Kids Kash and Incentives. BUT! If your Kids are caught deviating from any of these Expectations they will receive a warning X. After receiving your customized number of X's (warnings), they are FIRED! Incentive bonuses are taken away and your set consequence(s) are enforced such as no tv, no device, no playing with friends.

Incentive Programs:

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
NOT FIRED BONUS
TEAMWORK BONUS

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH (EOTM)

Reward your Kids by celebrating them as your own employee of the month. Give a special reward to the winner for the entire month. Then submit your Kid to our HFK Employee Of The Month Contest!

Submit your overachiever for a chance to win extra prizes and to be featured on our site and social media.

Submit your Kid here!

NOT FIRED BONUS

Individually, staying NOT FIRED for the entire pay period is a big accomplishment. An incentive amount per Kid is held at the start of a new pay period. If your Kid avoids getting fired, then that amount is released and paid out on Pay Day!

HOW TO

TEAMWORK BONUS

As a team, staying NOT FIRED together is cause for celebration! Reward your Kids with a family outing or experience (e.g. Laser Tag, Home Movie Night, trip to the Zoo), as well as extra kash for each of them on Pay Day!

This incentive promotes teamwork and encourages the Kids to remind and support each other.

HOW TO

WORKPLACE EXTRAS!

Check Out Our EXTRAS

For even more fun check out our EXTRAS page to learn about our 30 Day Action Plan, Sick Days, Vacation Time, Referrals, Overtime, Charitable Donations, Performance Reviews, Employer Contributions and more!

EXTRAS