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For grandparents

Learn something
together.

Do a challenge with your grandchild, wherever they live. You don't have to be nearby and you don't have to be good at the subject — you just have to be willing to lose to an eight-year-old.

A challenge you can both do, from anywhere

Pick a topic — fractions, the solar system, Marvel basics. You each get the same questions, answer them whenever you like, and the scores sit side by side. Nobody has to be in the same room, or the same state.

  1. 1Sign up and choose “Just me”You’re adding yourself as an adult learner — a real account, not a spectator login. You are NOT adding your grandchild; they stay in their own parent’s account.
  2. 2Start a challenge and get a codePick what the two of you will learn. You get a short code to share.
  3. 3Text the code to their mom or dadThey join on their child’s behalf from their own account. That’s the approval step, and it happens every time — nothing is standing or automatic.

As many grandchildren as you like. Each one is a separate challenge with its own code, and each one is joined by that child's own parent. Three grandchildren in three cities is three codes, not one shared key to anybody's family.

Set up my own profile — free

No card, no subscription. You'll add yourself as a learner, then start a challenge.

Want to set up an account for them?

There are two honest answers, and which one is yours depends on who that child lives with. We ask whoever adds a child to confirm they are the parent or guardian, and we mean it.

If you're raising them

Then you are the guardian and an account is exactly for you. Plenty of children are raised by their grandparents, and those families are squarely who this was built for. Set it up yourself — free, no card, and it stays free.

Set up their account

If they live with their parent

Then the account is theirs to set up, not yours — and one message does the whole job. Send it to your son or daughter, and once they've added your grandchild you can start a challenge together.

What you won't get, and why

There's no grandparent view of a child's progress. Their practice, their scores and the things they found hard belong on their parent's dashboard, and a second adult can only be added to a family as a full co-parent — which means editing and deleting profiles, not just watching. That is more than most parents mean to hand over, so we don't offer it as a halfway house.

What you will see is your own side of every challenge you do together, which is the part you were actually in.

Or learn something of your own

The same account works when there is no grandchild involved at all. Spanish before the trip, the chess opening you never understood, the guitar you put down in 1978. Tell it you're here for yourself and the whole thing changes shape — no résumé talk, no interview drills. The tutor is as patient at seventy as it is at seven.

What adult learning looks like here

And if you'd rather give than set anything up

That works too — it pays for the tutoring itself, for families who would never have bought one. LeftStart is free for every child whether or not anybody gives.

How giving works →

Pick a topic. Send one code. See who wins.

Start a challenge — free

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