Khan Academy Kids helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations.

This app includes games that are meant to specifically work on flexible thinking. They present a situation (such as two different sized hats for two different sized people) and asks the player to do the expected thing (put the big hat on the bigger person). The game then takes the next step and ask the player to be silly and put the big hat on the small person. By doing this, the player has their expectations challenged in a non-threatening way, as well as being asked to adapt to changing directions.

Self-Awareness

Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings.

Khan Academy Kids also provides a chance for the player to learn about emotions. There are books about things like being sad or scared. There are also books for social topics such as sharing or having hurt feelings. Reading these books can help kids learn to better understand, identify, and cope with emotions and thoughts.