River & Ember App
This app isn’t just beautiful. It’s rooted in what children and families truly need.
Future Project
Develop stronger emotional self-awareness
Improve their ability to regulate stress
Build more secure attachments
Strengthen the parts of the brain tied to learning and executive function
Research shows that emotional attunement and co-regulation — Especially when supported through ritual, story, and sensory rhythm — helps children:
Most apps are for adults. Some are for children. Rarely are they for both — and almost never for the sacred space between them.
For Parent and Child Together
River & Ember is different: a quiet digital hearth where parent and child can sit together — not to be entertained, not to perform, but to feel, reflect, and tend.
Two Spaces, One Flame
A private space for reflection, journaling, and gentle insights.
The Grown-Up Flame
A ritual space for parent and child: listening, choosing rituals, answering story-based questions like “Which part of Ember’s journey felt like yours today?”
The Shared Ember
Drawn by our daughter.
Even the name Imagine That came from my daughter.
She created it herself — naming what she felt this space should be: a place where imagination lives outside the lines.
Her drawings appear as icons and sketches within the app, her voice woven throughout — a giggle, a whisper, or a favorite line. These touches remind families that this is not just content for children, but a co-created space for both parent and child.
Here too, Imagine That becomes a living metaphor: originality matters more than perfection, and the most sacred art often comes from the raw and unpolished.
Imagine That: Original Art, Outside the Lines
River & Ember is not a teaching tool, not a tracker, not gamified growth. It is a tending tool. A way to slow down, even for just five minutes, to share story, ritual, art, and presence.
Not Screen Time. Sacred Time.
A Lantern to Light the Way
Begin the journey with a free story snippet and family ritual from River & Ember — a first glimpse of the seasonal toolkits to come.
If this speaks to you, we’d love to keep you close as River & Ember grows.
Every River & Ember story tends more than one flame.
A portion of proceeds will help light the way for young artists through The Malcolm-Jamal Warner Creative Legacy Fund.
