Daylio helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

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

For users who have a hard time expressing their emotions or working through why they feel a certain way, diary apps can be a great way to practice giving voice to feelings. Daylio is helpful because it takes this one step further and adds icons that the user can select rather than trying to express their thoughts and feelings in words. For users who struggle with writing or are too young to express themselves in this manner, the emoji option that Daylio offers can be a useful tool to improving self-awareness in a low-stakes manner. For users who want to work on specific goals, diary apps can also help with self-awareness, letting them look for patterns in the types of behaviors they want to improve or stop. 

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

Goal-setting apps are a good way for users to encourage or curb certain behaviors or actions. For users who struggle with self-control, having a system of accountability can help them stay focused and not lose their patience when trying to adapt to a new approach to their daily lives. For example, if the user is told they need to improve their reading skills, they can set a goal for this on the Daily app. They can then set reminders, track their progress, and even write notes on how completing the goal made them feel. The app does not have a response component, meaning that the user needs to practice their own self-motivation and self-control to complete the goals they are setting for themselves.