Our Philosophy
Who you are is what you do when no one is watching.
Why Wazna weighs instead of counting, why both sides mark without seeing each other, and why there are no coins, levels or badges.
Four areas of one child
A habit is rarely about one thing. Going to bed on time belongs to the body, and it is also a promise kept. So a parent can give each habit or rule one or two of four areas, and Wazna shows how the week spreads across them.
The areas are a way of reading the score, never a second one. There is still one number a week — the one a reward reads. Under it, four bars say where it came from, and the lowest is named plainly, so a family can talk about it.
Body
Sleep, food, movement, and looking after yourself.
For example
- Sleeps by the agreed time
- Brushes teeth morning and night
Mind
Learning, focus, screens, and keeping your word.
For example
- Homework before screens
- Reads for twenty minutes
People
How we speak to each other, and what we do for each other.
For example
- Speaks kindly to a sibling
- Clears the table after dinner
Spirit
Faith, meaning and values — in your family's own words.
For example
- Joins the family's prayer or quiet time
- One kind act for someone outside the family
The name
Wazna, وزنة, is the Arabic word for the talent in the parable: a weight of silver entrusted to a servant, who is later asked what he did with it (Matthew 25:14–30). Nobody in that story is asked how much he was given. Each is asked what he made of what he had. That is the idea the product is built on.
Why weight, and why two of them
Not everything a parent asks for matters equally, and pretending otherwise teaches a child that making his bed and telling the truth are the same size. So every item carries a weight.
It carries two, because doing and failing are not mirror images. Some things deserve credit when done and cost little when missed. Others earn nothing, because they are simply expected, and cost a great deal when broken. A single number cannot say both. Two can, and a teenager can read them before the week begins.
Why both sides mark, and why blind
A score handed down by a parent is a verdict. A score both sides contributed to is a record. We wanted a record.
The marks are hidden from each other until both exist, because an answer given after seeing the other side's answer is not an answer. What comes out is sometimes uncomfortable: a parent who did not notice the effort, or a teenager who was generous with himself. Both are worth finding. Neither is found by arguing from memory.
Why there are no coins, levels or badges
Points that pile up forever measure how long you have used an app. They say nothing about this week. Wazna's score starts again every week and can only go as high as the week deserved.
We left out coins, levels, characters and sounds on purpose. A fifteen-year-old knows when he is being handled. The reward for a good week should be something real that his parents chose, and the quiet knowledge that the number is true.
Why an unmarked day is not a zero
If nobody assessed it, nobody knows. Counting it as a failure would punish a child for his parents' busy evening, and counting it as a success would flatter everyone. So it is left out. Only what was actually looked at is weighed. The same goes for days a parent marks as excused.
Why a bad day has a ceiling
Losses are capped. Without a cap, one explosive afternoon could end the week on Tuesday, and a teenager with nothing left to lose behaves accordingly. With a cap there is always a reason to try again tomorrow. Consequences still apply. Hope does too.
Why we cannot see inside your family
We built the operator's console so that it can approve an account and suspend one, and cannot read a child's name, a mark, a note or a score. This is enforced by the database, not by a promise. A tool about trust inside a family has no business asking the family to trust a stranger with its details.