I asked AI to fix bedtime. My 8-year-old helped.

Bedtime in our house was chaos. The kind with pajamas.

Brush your teeth. Did you brush your teeth? Go brush your teeth. Every night, same script. I'm the bad guy, they're the audience, nobody's happy.

I didn't want to be the bad guy anymore. So I did what any rational dad would do at 9pm on a Tuesday — I opened an AI chat and typed: "Can you create a website for me?"

My son Leor was sitting next to me. He's eight. He had opinions.

Within an hour we had a space-themed checklist with a rocket that moved across the screen as you checked off tasks. Leor was obsessed. Then he asked the question that changed everything:

"What happens when you finish?"

We looked at each other. Good question, kid.

Not more screen time — we both agreed on that immediately. Something physical. Something silly. Something the parents had to do.

That's when we added the Buttons Game.

Leor invented it when he was three. The parent lies on the floor, knees up. Kid sits on your stomach. Kid presses your fingers — each one does something different. Tickle. Bumpy ride. Side to side. Sudden drop. Kid is in total control. Parent commits to the bit. It is objectively the greatest game ever invented and it was designed by a toddler.

We built it into the app. Then we added sibling competition mode. Then original music — actual songs, made with AI, that play when you unlock the dance party reward. Then a two-minute timer for the parent game so there's a clear beginning and end. Then a sleep mode with breathing exercises. Each idea turned into a new feature. I was hooked on vibe coding. The kids were hooked on bedtime.

I didn't write a line of code. I had no idea what I was doing. I still don't, really.

But I knew what bedtime felt like and what I wanted it to feel like instead. That turned out to be enough.

The app is called Bedtime Mission. It's been used by real families, every night, for months. Leor will tell you he built it.

He's not wrong.