85% of overall brain development is completed in the first 6 years of our life. As our brain is most adaptive in these early childhood years, a Kid’s ability to learn, retain & sharpen basic developmental (or foundational) skills is also highest during this phase.

Base developmental skills learnt during this phase are later combined to build more complex skills on top of them, and the process continues. For e.g., sitting tolerance, focusing attention for longer duration, critical thinking, problem solving, effective communication, empathetic communication, social interacting, self-control etc. As all foundational skills are interlinked, even if one is not fully developed, it starts interfering with this process and affects the quality of our complex skills. Thus, the quality of developmental skills Kids build during the first 6 years, significantly influences virtually all aspects of their future life – studies, play, health, behaviour, friendships, relationships, career & income.

Education may begin on the first day of school, but learning & development begins much, much before that. Hence it is extremely important that you are fully informed as well as always in control of making sure that your Kid builds a solid foundation of base developmental skills during early years.

CompassTot helps you become an active participant and positive influencer in your Kid’s learning and development, rather than leaving it entirely on pre-schools or to chance. We help you with personalized and developmentally appropriate activities, as per your Kid’s continuously evolving strengths, weaknesses and developmental needs, so that you don’t miss out on anything important. We help your Kid learn, reinforce and sharpen critical foundational skills, so when the academic life (primary school) begins, your Kid always stays ahead of the curve and truly shines. Essentially, we assist you to do the Right Thing, at the Right Time, in the Right Way, to unlock maximum developmental potential of your Kid.

IQ is NOT fixed at birth!

In the first few years of life, 10,00,000+ new neural connections are formed in the brain, Every Second! While neural connections in the brain are made throughout life, the rapid pace at which our brains develop in these first 6 years is never repeated. As the maturing brain becomes more specialized to assume more and more complex functions, it becomes less and less capable of reorganizing & adapting itself to new or unexpected challenges.

Thus, the brain is most flexible early in life and its capacity for change decreases with age. The timing of this is genetic, but the stimulation (experiences and interactions) a Kid receives in early years improves the brain, by determining whether genes are expressed and whether the neural circuits being formed in the brain are strong or weak.
Thus, it’s easier and far more effective to build a stronger foundation for our Kids during the first 6 years, than to repent and change things later.

Pre-schools play an important role in a Kid’s learning and development. But they also have an inherent limitation. Beyond a point, they cannot personalize learning for each Kid in a classroom full of 30, or 20, or even 10 students. So, they are forced to offer a standardized age-based curriculum (same thing, for each Kid, of the same age).

As pre-school takes care of a Kid’s learning needs upto a certain point, CompassTot steps-in to address the gap that pre-schools are not able to fill, i.e., personalized learning to maximize the developmental potential of each Kid, as per each individual Kid’s continuously evolving strengths, weaknesses and developmental needs.

We bring to Parents learnings of our co-founders, gained over 50,000+ one-on-one Child Developmental Sessions, over the last 25+ years.

All our activities are screen-free, neuroscience-based, developmentally appropriate and play-based. We tailor the program to each Kid’s continuously evolving strengths, weaknesses and developmental needs. We also help Parents track progress, so they can see how their Kid is benefitting.

We work hard, so you don’t have to get exhausted by having to keep wasting a lot of time, efforts & money for finding out age-appropriate, screen-free activities, specifically beneficial for your Kid, on an ongoing basis. You can rather use that energy, time & efforts productively, i.e., by spending quality time with your Kid, which significantly helps in learning & development.

CompassTot currently focuses on following key areas of development:

1. Gross Motor Skills: Skills which require whole body movement using large muscles of the body, to perform everyday functions, such as standing, walking, running and jumping etc.
2. Fine Motor Skills: Fine motor skills involve small muscles working with the brain & nervous system to control movements in areas such as the hands, fingers, lips, tongue and eyes.
3. Cognitive and Intellectual Skills: Brain-based skills which are needed in acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information and reasoning, to perform various mental activities, most closely associated with learning and problem solving.

While it is easy to keep young Kids hooked on to mobiles with games-based activities, so Parents keep renewing the subscription, CompassTot forces No Screen Time on your Kid.

All our activities are screen-free activities, designed in ways Kids interact with adults and enjoy it the most. This is crucial, because in the absence of fully developed language skills in early years, Kids learn through play as well as back and forth interaction with adults.

The World Health Organization recommends no screen time for babies under 2, and no more than one hour of screen time a day for those aged 2 to 5. Even UNICEF clearly states the benefits of limiting and even eliminating screen time in these early years will last a lifetime.

We DO NOT force you to buy expensive material from us. Actually, we DO NOT force you to buy ANY material from us. In fact, we try to be inclusive in our approach, so our activities do not require expensive, unnecessary material anyway.

Even in case an activity requires some material, it can be easily found at your neighborhood stores or e-comm websites. In such cases, we also try to suggest alternative inexpensive materials that you can design/make at home.