Jour helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Self-Awareness: Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings

Journaling is one of the most effective ways to keep track of your emotions and their causes. The Jour journaling app takes this one step further and adds questions about the emotions you are experiencing and then asks you to choose the particular triggers for these emotions. After this, the app gives you prompts to get started writing about the experience. 

You can also use the emotional insight feature in the app to track how you have been feeling over a period of time. For people who struggle to understand the patterns in their behavior or why they are feeling a certain way, this type of journaling can be very helpful in identifying certain emotions and the reasons behind them. 

Self-Control: Managing our actions, feelings and behaviors.

Once a person has a better understanding of their emotions and the triggers behind them, they can begin to practice self-control. For users who need encouragement in this area, Jour has specific journaling questions designed to process emotions like anxiety. There is also a tab specifically for guided breathing exercises so that the user can begin to incorporate mindfulness into their daily routine.