Urban City Stories helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility: Trying something new. 

Open world sandbox games like Urban City Stories allow children to explore an environment freely without worrying about goals, strategy, or an endgame. Because of the free play nature of the app, children can practice their flexibility skills by exploring spaces in the game and trying something new. Within the different areas of the game, the user can click on objects like refrigerators, doors, water faucets, and closets to open them or turn them on. Items can be dragged and dropped elsewhere as well, creating a digital playhouse where your child can create their own scenarios. 

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

Free play is one way for children to create their own scenarios involving characters and the settings they are placed in. Young children can practice their self-awareness skills by play acting as several people and creating interactive relationships. By making characters fight, make up, share an object, or have fun together, the child is practicing these interactions in a safe space and learning about how to deal with different real-life scenarios.