Discover What
Makes Your Child
Thrive
Rooted in the extensive research of Dr. Michele Borba, ThriveScore provides a scientifically-backed framework to nurture your child's unique character strengths. Through a 5-minute survey, you'll uncover your child's strengths and growth opportunities, empowering you with insights and personalized strategies to support their development and success.
Built on Dr. Michele Borba's Life's Work
Rooted in the extensive research of Dr. Michele Borba, ThriveScore provides a scientifically-backed framework to nurture your child's unique character strengths.
Three Simple Steps in 5 Minutes
We'll send you expert advice and articles on how you can support your child's unique strengths and opportunities to help them thrive.
Reflect on your child's everyday behaviors across 23 common character traits.
Based on real world data and scientific research, get a unique score that helps track your child's development over time.
Get practical next steps that include their Snapshot, top strengths, and five things you can do this week.
5 Character Domains
A domain is a core, teachable area of human strength that helps shape who a child is becoming; the foundation for moral choices, healthy relationships, resilience, and a life in which a child can truly thrive.
The child’s inner capacity to know and use her strengths, set meaningful goals, stay motivated, and keep going with purpose and hope even when life gets hard.
The ability to manage emotions, impulses, attention, and stress so a child can think clearly, make healthy choices, and respond rather than react.
The internal guide of conscience, empathy, integrity, and values that helps a child know right from wrong and choose what is right even when pressured otherwise.
The ability to understand others’ feelings, listen and communicate with care, build healthy friendships, and handle conflict in ways that strengthen connection.
The habit of staying curious, open-minded, and reflective so a child can learn deeply, solve problems responsibly, weigh consequences, and make sound judgments.
What You'll Discover
Discover one of 26 profiles reflecting your child's evolving strengths and potential. Reassess at key milestones to support their growth.
An insightful guide to your child's character journey, highlighting areas of growth and strength. Use it to celebrate progress and nurture their development over time.
Discover the specific virtues where your child excels. Celebrate what makes them unique and build on their natural strengths.
Get 5 specific action items tailored to your child's Snapshot; practical steps you can start at home, school, and in activities today.
How We Treat Your Family's Information
The survey never asks for your child’s identity, location, school, or health information. It asks what you, the parent, have observed.
Your responses generate your child’s profile and nothing more. We don’t sell or share what you tell us about your child.
Want to see exactly how a score is calculated? See the FAQ.
Frequently Asked Questions
We call it ‘ThriveScore’ to highlight each child’s unique growth journey, focusing on personal development rather than comparison. It’s a supportive tool designed to celebrate and track individual progress, empowering you to nurture your child’s evolving strengths.
What information does ThriveScore actually collect?
Your responses to twenty-three reflection prompts about your child’s observable behavior; and, if you create an account, an email address so you can return to your results. We don’t ask for your child’s name, school, location, photo, or any health or biometric information. The tool is structured around your observations, not your child’s identity.
Is my child being assessed or scored as a person?
No. The ThriveScore is a parent-completed reflection, not a test of your child. The number you receive describes the pattern of strengths you’ve observed; a starting point for conversation and intentional parenting, not a label or ranking.
Will my answers be shared or sold to advertisers?
No. We don’t sell or share your responses with third-party advertisers, data brokers, or marketing companies. Your data is used to generate your child’s profile and growth plan; that’s it.
What if my answers change over time, or my child grows?
ThriveScore is designed to be retaken. Children grow, develop new strengths, and move through stages. Many parents revisit the reflection every six to twelve months to track how their child is changing; and how their own perception is changing.
Can I delete my data?
Yes. You can request deletion of your responses and account at any time, from your settings. We don’t ask why.
How is the score actually calculated?
Each of the twenty-three virtues maps to one of five domains. Your responses generate a weighted profile across those domains, scaled to a single number. The model and its weights are based on Dr. Borba’s research framework, and we publish an overview of the methodology on the science page.
Is this a replacement for talking to a psychologist or counselor?
No. ThriveScore is a reflection tool for parents; not a clinical evaluation, diagnosis, or therapy. If you have concerns about your child’s development, behavior, or wellbeing, a licensed pediatrician, psychologist, or counselor is the right person to talk to.
Example Results
Guardian
A natural protector who leads with integrity and quiet courage; the kind of child others instinctively trust and look to when things get hard.
What it means: Lean into leadership and teamwork, and gently stretch their flexibility when plans change.
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