Parenting is evolving, and MyChildWay is leading that transformation. Founded by Halimat Azeez, the Lagos-based startup is building an AI-powered parenting assistant that helps families raise children who are emotionally balanced, morally grounded, and academically strong.
Through a mix of artificial intelligence, gamified activities, and real-time progress dashboards, MyChildWay gives parents the tools to understand each child’s unique personality, track their growth, and stay connected in the digital age.
In this edition of Techparley’s DRIVE100, where we spotlight Africa’s startups, we turn our attention to how MyChildWay is redefining how parents nurture, guide, and stay connected with their children through an AI-powered parenting companion designed for the digital age.
“MyChildWay provides parents with an AI-powered parenting assistant that personalizes guidance for each child while keeping them engaged in their own growth journey,” Halimat told Techparley.
What You Need to Know
Across homes worldwide, parents struggle to guide each child according to their unique personality, learning style, and emotional needs.
“Most parenting tools are generic,” Halimat explains. “They don’t understand the individuality of each child, and that’s where frustration begins.”
The effects are far-reaching. Parents face stress, guilt, and burnout, while children disengage from traditional parenting approaches that feel forced or irrelevant. Issues such as behavioural changes or moral lapses often go unnoticed until they become serious.
From missed warning signs to weakened family communication, modern parenting has reached a critical point, one that MyChildWay seeks to transform.
Understanding the Solution
MyChildWay offers parents an AI-powered parenting companion designed to personalise guidance for each child while making learning fun and development measurable.
By combining artificial intelligence, gamified activities, and real-time progress dashboards, the platform helps families grow together.
At its MVP stage, the app includes:
- AI-driven personality insights, helping parents understand each child’s nature and needs.
- Activity suggestions, automatically generated when parents forget or get busy.
- Gamified learning modules, where children earn badges and unlock levels by completing moral or academic lessons.
- Growth dashboards, showing a child’s progress across emotional, social, and spiritual areas.
In its upcoming beta stage, MyChildWay says it will also introduce:
- Parent communities for peer support.
- On-demand professional counselling and real-time child safety tracking.
- Creative spaces for children to express emotions, reflect, and build emotional intelligence safely.
The results? Halimat says it is less parental stress, more connected families, and happier children who see learning as play.
What Makes MyChildWay Different
While other platforms focus on narrow aspects of parenting, from education apps like Khan Academy Kids and ABCmouse to monitoring tools like Life360, MyChildWay stands out as a holistic solution.
“We’re not just building an app; we’re building a parenting companion,” says Halimat.
“MyChildWay unites learning, moral development, safety, and well-being in one place.”
Unlike competitors that prioritise control or content, Halimat reveals MyChildWay integrates:
- AI personalisation for tailored child development.
- Gamified engagement to keep children excited and involved.
- Multi-dimensional growth tracking covering moral, academic, and emotional development.
- Built-in safety and community tools, ensuring families stay connected and supported.
Meet the Team
Behind the platform is a team of five, led by Halimat Azeez, a cybersecurity analyst in the fintech sector and an AWS Community Builder in Security for three consecutive years.
Her expertise ensures that MyChildWay is built with privacy-by-design, an essential standard when dealing with children’s data.
She’s joined by:
- Oyewole – Co-founder & Head of Product, leading product design and user experience.
- Yusuf – Senior Software Engineer / Acting CTO, ensuring scalable architecture.
- Kadiri – Senior DevOps Engineer, handling deployment and automation.
- Habeeb – Mobile Developer, focused on building a seamless and engaging child experience.
Together, Halimat say they combine technical depth, product design insight, and a shared passion for improving family life through technology.
Achievement and Vision
Still in its early stages, MyChildWay is preparing for its MVP launch by Q4 2025. Yet, the startup is already gaining significant traction.
According to Halimat, the startup’s milestones include:
- Partnership with AWS Activate, which provided $5,000 in cloud credits to ensure scalability and data security.
- A defined MVP roadmap and completed parent interviews to validate user needs.
- An early waitlist of parents, signalling strong interest ahead of launch.
Over the next 12 months, MyChildWay plans to complete its MVP rollout, onboard 500 families, and launch its subscription model.
In two to three years, the startup says the goal is to reach 50,000+ active families, partner with schools and child psychologists, expand globally with multi-language support, and become Africa’s leading digital parenting companion.
By 2030, Halimat envisions a platform supporting over one million families worldwide, combining education, safety, and well-being in one trusted ecosystem.
Africa’s Tech and Policy Landscape
Halimat believes governments have a crucial role in enabling innovation. According to her, the government plays a key role in enabling startups by providing funding, infrastructure, talent, and supportive policies. She also sees AI as a net positive for Africa’s future.
The global parenting-apps market is showing robust growth, with projections to reach around $1.72 billion in 2025. These figures indicate a strong opportunity for solutions like MyChildWay, that serve parents and children across emotional, educational and moral development dimensions.
For a startup like MyChildWay, which merges parenting tools with child-facing gamified and developmental elements, analysts say these market outcomes suggest both fertile demand and significant scalability potential.
According to experts, MyChildWay isn’t just a tech product, it’s a movement to help parents raise emotionally intelligent, morally conscious, and academically grounded children in an increasingly digital world.
Talking Points
It is remarkable how MyChildWay is using artificial intelligence to bridge one of the most overlooked gaps in modern family life, which is personalised parenting.
By tailoring guidance to each child’s personality, learning style, and emotional needs, the startup is reimagining how parents connect, teach, and nurture in an increasingly digital world.
At Techparley, we find it particularly impressive that MyChildWay combines AI insights, gamified activities, and progress dashboards to make learning both measurable and engaging.
By allowing parents to track moral, academic, and emotional growth in one place, the platform promotes intentional parenting, something traditional apps often miss.
Equally important is the startup’s strong commitment to data security and child privacy, backed by founder Halimat Azeez’s background in cybersecurity. This focus on trust and safety gives MyChildWay an edge in a space where many parents are still cautious about digital exposure for children.
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