DROP’d helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Both the platform the player is on and the green one they are trying to drop onto are moving. They are usually moving at different speeds and in different directions. This gives the player the perfect opportunity to practice their focus skills. If they aren’t using their short-term focus (they only need to worry about one platform at a time) to ignore internal and external distractions, they will time things poorly and either miss the green platform completely or bounce off of it. Either way, without focus, the player will not beat their previous high score and advance on the leaderboard or in the challenges.

Self-Control

Managing our actions, feelings, and behaviors.

Because timing is so critical, and the character only has one life, the player will spend a lot of time starting over. This can be frustrating and provides a great chance for practicing self-control skills. Not only will they get to work on controlling anger and frustration, but the more times they mess up, the higher the heart rate goes, and the more the player has to work on controlling impulsive tapping. This means that after a couple of rounds of the game, the player will be practicing self-control—or getting worse and worse at the game. Self-control becomes vital to success.