Brain Power
Directing thoughts and actions toward goals.
- Impulse control
- Working memory
- Sustained attention
For example: Freeze Dance: dance together and freeze when the music stops. Then flip the rule: dance when it stops.
In Uzbek, birga means together
Raising good people, together.
Harvard research-based daily activities for parents of young children. 5 minutes a day.
- Ages 2–6
- 5–20 minutes a day
- In Uzbek, Russian and English
Every parent
Every parent asks these questions.
- Should I be strict, or softer?
- Let her fail, or step in?
- Is this too much screen time?
- How do I raise a good person?
Busy parents have minutes, not months, for research. And advice is everywhere: relatives, the internet, books. None of it tells you what to do tonight.
Birga does: today, in 5 minutes, exactly what to do and what to say.
How it works
Small steps. Big changes.
- 1
Tell us about your child
Your child’s age, your role, what matters to your family.
- 2
Get a 7-day plan
A plan built for your child: one activity a day, with exactly what to say and do.
- 3
Phone down, play together
The app guides the adult. The child stays offline.
- 4
One tap to reflect
Birga tunes tomorrow’s activity to your child. Small actions become habits.
What children build
Five powers for a good life.
Every activity builds one of five powers. The framework comes from Harvard’s EASEL Lab.
Feelings Power
Identifying, expressing and regulating emotions, and understanding others.
- Naming emotions
- Calming down
- Perspective-taking
For example: Emotion Detective: take turns making feeling faces in a mirror, and guess the clues.
People Power
Reading social situations and interacting positively with peers and adults.
- Social cues
- Resolving conflicts
- Kind, helpful acts
For example: Fix-It Plan: when siblings fight over a toy, stop, say the problem out loud, and choose a fair plan together.
Citizen Power
Values and habits that guide our actions in family and community.
- Ethical choices
- Tolerance
- Responsibility
For example: Helper of the Day: your child picks one way to help the family, and you name it out loud at dinner.
Attitude Power
Beliefs about ourselves that help us learn, grow and overcome obstacles.
- Self-confidence
- Growth mindset
- Optimism
For example: The Power of Yet: turn “I can’t do it” into “I can’t do it yet”.
Real family situations
It tells you what to do tonight.
Worries at bedtime
Balloon Breaths before bed
Calming down · Feelings Power
- Sit together and blow up an imaginary balloon with three slow breaths.
- Let the balloon float away with one worry from today.
- Name one good feeling to take to sleep.
A new baby in the family
The Big Helper story
Perspective-taking · Feelings Power
- Tell a short story about a big sister who helps a baby.
- Ask: “How does the baby feel? How does the big sister feel?”
- Choose one real way your child can help tomorrow.
Too much phone time
The Tallest Tower
Sustained attention · Brain Power
- Put phones in a “sleeping basket” for 10 minutes.
- Build the tallest tower you can from cups or blocks.
- When it falls, try again and praise the focus, not the height.
Dad works abroad
Story Chain on a video call
Building connection · People Power
- Dad starts a story with one sentence.
- Your child adds the next sentence, and you take turns.
- End by planning what you will share on tomorrow’s call.
Harvard research + AI
Harvard research at the core. AI makes it yours.
Research library
EASEL Lab kernels: short games, routines and stories distilled from 25 leading social-emotional learning programs and tested in schools.
Birga AI
Learns your child’s age, goals and progress. Builds the daily plan and creates new activity variations for your family’s real situations.
Expert review and safety
The AI builds only on the research library. Experts review new activities. No diagnoses, minimal data.
+11
percentile points higher academic achievement in social-emotional learning programs
Durlak et al., 2011 (213 studies) $11
returned for every $1 invested in such programs
Belfield et al., Columbia University, 2015Birga is an independent startup and is not affiliated with Harvard University. EASEL materials are used only under license.
For kindergartens
Into every kindergarten, with the government.
Uzbekistan has more than 38,000 kindergartens and over 3 million children in preschool. Birga connects class and home.
Group activities
5 to 10 minute group activities for classrooms, based on the same Harvard kernels.
Class and home, connected
Every class activity sends a matching home activity to parents through the app.
Licenses for private kindergartens
An annual license per kindergarten: a clear advantage for parents choosing where to enroll.
Pricing
Free to start. Worth paying for.
Birga Free
0 so‘m
- Free activities every day
- One child profile
- Goal paths for a week or a month
- Offline access
Birga Plus
13,000 so‘m a month
- Full activity library
- Several children
- Parents, grandparents and nannies together
- Deeper AI personalization
- Long-term goals and plans
- Audio guidance
- Packs: tantrums, bedtime, siblings
Prices will be confirmed during the pilot.
Team
We have done this before.
Arabboy Akhmadullaev
Founder
- Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2026
- EASEL Lab: built and tested SEL kernels across countries
- Chief Specialist, Ministry of Preschool and School Education
- Father of a one-year-old: our first user
Mukhammadrizo Yakhyoev
Co-founder, technology
- Software engineer
- Built the technical side of multiple startups
- Owns architecture, app, analytics and data security
Join the pilot.
Our four-week pilot brings together 50–100 families and 5 kindergartens. The app is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
App Store · Coming soon Google Play · Coming soon