Secret Neighbor  helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus: Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Whether you are playing the game as a normal kid or the neighbor in disguise, you will need to use your focusing skills. If you are a normal kid, you need to be looking for keys while also looking at the other five kids and noting any suspicious behavior. If you do not focus, you may end up being caught by the neighbor. If you are playing as the neighbor, you need to try and keep the other kids from getting to the basement door with all the keys while trying not to look too suspicious. 

Flexibility: Trying something new. 

Each of the six children in the game has unique abilities and the player should try each one out to see which they would enjoy playing the best. Some of the characters, like the Detective, are better at finding keys while others like the Brave are better at using combat to achieve their goals. If the player struggles with Flexibility, they may not be able to enjoy the game as much if they limit themselves to only one type of character with which they play throughout the game.