Here's a list of top empathy apps that actually work

Posted by Layla Flinn on November 26th, 2020

Introduction

These days children are more involved in gadgets and technical life than being involved emotionally and are active in real life and to make sure that children are kind and empathetic towards others' parents need to help them in developing socio-emotional skills. 

As we know that children are more into the world of digital media, we can help them build such skills and acquire sentimental and emotional feelings using empathy apps. They can guide children and develop the needed set of skills in them while using their all-time favorite gadgets. Animals can play an important role in doing so as kids usually find them fun to engage with. 

Empathy Apps

Toca pet doctor

Toca Pet Doctor is an empathy app in which kids can look after various animals and provide them with health and care facilities. This application offers kids the chance to connect in free-play and discover the necessities of different types of animals. By caring for the animals back to health, children can see that their actions are important to others and observe the importance of health and care. This app can lead to them being more careful and empathetic towards others and they might provide necessary care to them whenever it is needed. It is available on the app store, play store, and even Amazon.

Peek a Zoo

This empathy app is not like the above-mentioned empathy app.  In this application, children are shown various animals portraying different kinds of emotions and feelings which the child needs to recognize and as they identify it they will learn how to understand social cues in real life. This inculcates the ability of proper response in children. It can be downloaded from the apps store. 

Wee You-Things

This is effective for children as well as parents. The empathy app focuses on teaching children the value of diversity in people and respect that. There is a parents section that contains tips for parents to enhance the quality of conversation with their children to shape an empathetic character. This is available on the app store. 

One Globe Kids

This is a paid app that provides for different stories for .99. The stories are presented with the pictures of kids from various corners of the world to bring about an awareness of the myriad cultures, languages, and appearances which co-exist. This empathy app on the app store is all ready to teach your kid the value of acceptance. 

My DPS

DPS stands for Digital Problem Solver. The app focuses on imparting kids the ability to identify a wide range of emotions from human facial expressions, body language, speech and written words. Besides, it has a deeper layer to it. Kids are also taught different techniques to solve problems and cope with an array of social situations. This empathy app can be used if your kid is 6 years or more. Through animated videos and engaging lyrics, the goal is established. It also enables parents to add texts or pictures and even capture their child's emotion. It is available on App Store and Google Play. 

Conclusion

Parents can easily install the apps which we will list below and make sure that their children are learning. These apps and games will function better and get efficient results if parents talk to their children while they are engaged in the application. Empathy apps work best when the children know what he or she is doing and what are the consequences of doing the task. The parents should respectively inform their children about details and tell them what's positive and what is negative and so on.