Farm RPG helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Planning: Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

Money management is a huge component of Farm RPG, so the player needs to have a plan for how they are going to spend their money and how they will earn it as well. You start off with a small amount of money and you need to plant crops, sell your harvest and slowly build up enough resources to branch out within your farm. Gold coins, which are used to purchase rare items or charter expeditions or fishing boats, are even rarer, meaning that unless the player wants to spend real-life money to replenish them, a plan for their use should be put into place. Players who struggle with planning should start small and not make any huge purchases. Just like keeping track of an allowance, they should subtract any of their purchases from their total to see where they are spending all of their money and how much profit it is bringing in for them. They may find through this process that they are overbuying seeds, sending out too many expeditions, or don’t have enough chickens in the coop. 

Time Management: Being efficient and aware of our use of time and effort. 

Many different aspects of Farm RPG involve waiting a certain amount of time for an action to complete. Crops take time to grow; the better monetary yield the crop has, the longer it will take to harvest. Expeditions, Fishing charters, and recovering stamina all take time. Eggs hatch after a certain amount of time every day. The player needs to manage their in-game time and consider their real-life time management skills while playing. For example, if the player sends an exploration expedition out that will take five hours to complete, the player realistically is not going to continue playing the game non-stop for those five hours. The player should take note of when they want to check back in with the game to see their progress, rather than expecting to spend countless hours on their farm harvesting until the expedition returns. To help with this skill, players should set a timer and when it goes off take a break from the game for a set period of time.