Spreading a Kinder World

Kinder World is an app on your phone designed to improve mental health and spread kindness. When you download the game, you are met by Samy, a fluffy white non-binary dog who is going to help you clean out your house! You start off the game by being gifted a monstera plant, which you get to name, and then water. When you water your plants, you can practice one of three mindfulness activities. You can pause and breathe, write a daily gratitude message, or practice emotional naming. When you write a daily gratitude message, it may actually get sent to other players playing the game. It is really cute because you can also write letters that will get sent to strangers playing the game. And you receive a letter from a stranger once a day. Emotional naming is a way to track the emotions you are feeling in the morning and at night. Your emotions are colour coded layers of sand and placed in a succulent plant jar. Once the jar is filled with the layers of emotional sand, your succulent moves on and you can start a new jar. Once your plant is grown (I named my first monstera plant Baby) you can move it into the greenhouse and start another one. As you fully grow plants, you unlock rooms in the house and can start to decorate them. You get prizes when you successfully grow “rare” leaves or a certain number of the same plant. Prizes are decorations for the rooms that you can unlock. The game is full of really cute characters such as Samy the dog, Luna the fox, Fern the moose and Quilliam the hedgehog. Throughout the game they will stop by and say hi. Your character is designated a flower when you get the game (I got a poppy) and when you add your friends your flower grows in their outside garden bed and their flower grows in yours. You can water your friend’s flowers in your garden to send them cute animations that will play when they go to view their garden, such as falling leaves, flower petals or dandelion seeds, a frog jumping around, or little insects buzzing around. Kinder World is such a nice app because it allows you to stop and relax for a few minutes of your day in the morning and evening. You can set the times your plant gets thirsty to whichever time would fit best in your schedule, and it doesn’t matter if you water it late. I would highly recommend everyone to download the app Kinder World.