My Bright Day

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.

About this app

My Bright Day is a tool for parents and guardians of children in Bright Horizons child care centers. You will receive real-time updates about how your child is doing and what they are learning to help you stay connected. Find all the information you need – naptimes, diaper changes, photos, and documentation on your child’s development – right at your fingertips.

HELP TEACHERS PLAN YOUR CHILD’S DAY
Each morning, you can share important notes about your child’s day before arrival (like how well your child slept or whether they finished breakfast) to help your child’s teacher provide the best possible care.

COMPLETE A DAILY HEALTH CHECK
Help keep the classroom safe by answering a few questions each morning about potential symptoms of, and exposure to, COVID-19.

GET REAL TIME UPDATES
A timeline view lets you see your child’s naptimes, meals, and other care events as the day goes on. A group view lets you see care events grouped by type so that you can quickly see a summary of all naps, meals etc. You’ll also receive developmental observations from your child’s teachers about how your child is learning, growing, playing, and developing new skills. Your child’s care is our first priority, so updates are made as time allows throughout the day.

SAVE SPECIAL MOMENTS AND MEMORIES
Get photos and videos of your child’s day in class and access them at any time in the Memories section—you can also save your favorites to your phone or tablet.

MAKE ARRIVAL AND PICK-UP QUICK AND EASY
Set an ETA within the app to let your child’s teachers know when you’ll be at the center for morning arrival or afternoon pickup. This helps teachers plan and ensure that arrival and pickup go as smoothly as possible!

RECEIVE IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Calendar reminders will help you stay up to date on center events, classroom activities, due dates, and supplies to bring in for your child.

GET CAUGHT UP WITH THE DAILY REPORT
If you can’t check the app regularly, read the daily report – a summary of all the care events, developmental observations, and notes that were entered for your child that day. The daily report will be available in the app after you check out of the center, so you can catch up on your child’s day when it works for you.

Ratings and reviews

I like the concept of this app but I find it very frustrating to use arrival notes. If you enter data for more than one category (meals & bathroom) one category won't save, so you have to enter each category individually. If you need to make an edit, especially in the notes, the app will just delete half of what you typed/voiced while typing it, or it will appear to have saved and then not. This is very frustrating for a busy parent. It takes sometimes 10min to add info that should take 1-2min.

App was working fine until recently. Now it hangs when trying to click into Daily report. Tried rebooting the phone and app, still broken. please fix the bug. Update: Thanks for fixing the bug. Would be great to be able to swipe to the next picture in the Daily digest instead of backing out and drilling back into each picture.

This app feels clunky and limited. Is it a bug that I can't add or edit the drop off notes after my child is checked in? It would be much more useful to have a messages space where I can easily communicate with the teachers during the day if needed (i.e. "I might be later than my normal pickup time today"). Also, having to login every time I open the app is a pain. The Brightwheel app that my previous daycare used is much smoother, a nice interface, with more useful features!

What's new

Thank you for using My Bright Day! To ensure our app is working better for you, we deliver updates regularly. This version contains the following updates:
• Updates to push notification and reminder copies to capture details about the date of the event
• Misc. bug fixes