I wasn’t trying to create a business.
I was trying to solve something I kept noticing with my own children.
When I think back to how many of us learned growing up, I remember homework, handwriting, spelling, constructing sentences, working things out and being expected to explain our answers. Technology has transformed education in many positive ways. But as a mother, I started wondering whether some valuable habits were becoming less frequent.
I did not want to recreate an entire school day at home. I wanted something small, consistent and meaningful.
So I started with 12 words.
Each week, my children focused on twelve words. We worked on spelling, meaning, synonyms, antonyms and sentences. Then they built fictional stories around the words so the vocabulary became something they had to use, not simply remember.
Then something surprised me.
They began looking forward to the sessions. At the end, I asked them to score themselves, but they had to explain why they believed their answer was right. Those conversations became practice in reasoning, reflection, confidence and speaking.
There was less passive screen time, more writing and more mother-child conversation.
Maybe other parents were asking the same questions.
That was when something I had created for my own children began to feel worth sharing.
WORD + ABILITY = WORDABI
And there is another little piece of home tucked inside the name. In Nigerian English, “abi?” is a familiar way of checking understanding or agreement. It felt fitting for something born from conversations between a mother and her children.
A small routine became something worth sharing.
What began with 12 focused words became a rhythm of writing, conversation, reflection and confidence.
