Happy Not Perfect helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

This app has a variety of different ways to work on focus. During the breathing step of the happiness workout, the app asks the user to focus on their breathing and their body. There is a game where the user must tilt their device to move a ball through a maze. Even guided meditations and daily doses require the user to focus on the voice guiding them. In every case, the app gives the player practice ignoring external and internal distractions to focus on short-term activities.

Self-Awareness

Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings.

Happy Not Perfect asks the user to think about both their feelings and their bodies. Selecting an emotion off a provided list helps the user practice naming their emotions. When the user has to then identify why they are feeling that way, they can start to learn how to address that feeling in their every day life.

Other activities, such as belly breathing or rubbing our hands together (in a guided meditation), help the user become aware of actual physical sensations in their bodies. This will help them learn to identify how all emotions feel and how to bring themselves back to center.