Ninja Focus helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

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

It can often be hard for children to express their own feelings, let alone justify their thoughts and actions. Mindfulness apps, particularly those geared towards children, can be a great tool for kids to learn to acknowledge how they are feeling and what they can do about these emotions. For children who struggle with self-awareness, starting each day with an emotional “check in” on the app is a good place to start. Ninja Focus will then select a few activities to target this emotion and guide the user by helping them address the feelings and provide positive activities and self-talk for them to practice. 

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

As soon as the user becomes better at self-awareness, the next step is self-control. Once we are able to articulate our emotions, we need to learn to be able to manage them effectively in our day-to-day lives. Ninja Focus has activities specifically designed for children who are anxious, stressed, or angry. There are activities featuring positive self-talk and affirmations that can help with children who are not feeling confident with themselves. There are also physical activities such as yoga and dancing to use kinesthetic movement to address control issues. For children who struggle with self-control, starting out slow with one or two activities a day will be a good way to introduce these concepts in a manageable way. Also, because the app is “gamified,” children will earn points and trophies for completing these objectives, making this process fun as well.