Calm Kids

Calm Kids
Author: Lorraine Murray
Publisher: Floris Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0863159346

At school, we believe education should touch the whole child. This includes the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and cognitive aspects of the child's life. We teach children quietness as a skill to reflect and recharge their inner lives. Lorraine Murray helped us on this journey.' -- Sheila Laing, Head Teacher. Stress and behavioural disorders are common in children, who are increasingly bombarded by marketing campaigns, faced with school and peer pressure, and able to sense the stress of adults around them. Mindfulness and meditation can help children recognise and cope with these pressures, releasing bad feelings gently and giving them simple tools to deal with tension and stress throughout their lives. In this practical and inspiring book, Lorraine Murray shows parents, teachers and youth workers how to lead fun and peaceful meditation sessions with children. Lorraine explains a variety of different approaches, from meditations around daily activities for busy families, to ideas for group 'quietness' sessions in schools. She provides fun, tactile rhymes for toddlers to help them calm down before bedtime, and suggests ways to help teenagers reduce anxiety. She goes on to explain how these methods can help children with ADHD and those on the autistic spectrum, giving a range of case studies. This book is suitable for complete beginners, or those with some experience of relaxation and meditation techniques. It offers all the advice needed to lead sessions with children, whilst encouraging the reader to adapt and develop their own ways of helping children to feel calmer, happier and more peaceful.

Breathing Is My Superpower

Breathing Is My Superpower
Author: Alicia Ortego
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Did you know that we all have Superpowers? One of them is our ability to control our breath. Breathing is My Superpower teaches children to regulate their emotions, especially if they are feeling upset, angry, or stressed. Sofia will show your little ones how to control their breathing in various situations, whether at school, at home, or on the playground. Five Breathing Technique presented in the book, will help calm your children and show them a fun way of managing their own body, breath, and emotions. This mindfulness for kids will help them to control their feelings in many ways: To relax when they think adults do not understand them. To deal with fears and worries. To cope with rejection at school. To regain self-confidence. To give kids relief from anxiety and teach them yoga basics. Your children will identify with our heroine, Sofia, and love the cheerful illustrations and charming rhymes in this bedtime story. Breathing is My Superpower is the second book from My Superpower Series - the growth mindset books for kids, suitable for all ages as well as anyone who works with children. Get your copy now!

Relax Kids

Relax Kids
Author: Marneta Viegas
Publisher: Our Street Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-12-04
Genre: Meditations
ISBN: 9781903816660

Using well-known fairy tales, this text is a gentle and fun way of introducing children to the world of meditation and relaxation. It is designed to counteract some of the tensions with which we are all familiar and offers parents and children quality time to relax and share together.

Relax Kids

Relax Kids
Author: Marneta Viegas
Publisher: Our Street Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Meditation
ISBN: 9781782794608

52 star meditations for under 5s

Relax, It's Just God

Relax, It's Just God
Author: Wendy Thomas Russell
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-01-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1941932010

Gold-medal winner of a Next Generation Book Award, silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award. As featured on the PBS NewsHour “A gem of a book.” — LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) A step-by-step guide to raising confident, open-minded kids in an age of religious intolerance. Relax, It's Just God offers parents fresh, practical and honest ways to address issues of God and faith with children while promoting curiosity and kindness, and successfully fending off indoctrination. A rapidly growing demographic cohort in America, secular parents are at the forefront of a major and unprecedented cultural shift. Unable to fall back on what they were taught as children, many of these parents are struggling, or simply failing, to address issues of God, religion and faith with their children in ways that promote honesty, curiosity, kindness and independence. The author sifts through hard data, including the results of a survey of 1,000 nonreligious parents, and delivers gentle but straightforward advice to both non-believers and open-minded believers. With a thoughtful voice infused with humor, Russell seamlessly merges scientific thought, scholarly research and everyday experience with respect for a full range of ways to view the world. "Relax, It's Just God" goes beyond the numbers to assist parents (and grandparents) who may be struggling to find the right time place, tone and language with which to talk about God, spirituality and organized religion. It encourages parents to promote religious literacy and understanding and to support kids as they explore religion on their own -- ensuring that each child makes up his or her own mind about what to believe (or not believe) and extends love and respect to those who may not agree with them. Subjects covered include: • Talking openly about our beliefs without indoctrinating kids • Making religious literacy fun and engaging • Talking about death without the comforts of heaven • Navigating religious differences with extended family members • What to do when kids get threatened with hell

Take Time to Relax!

Take Time to Relax!
Author: Nancy Carlson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0761389644

Tina the beaver and her family constantly rush off in different directions, until a storm keeps them snowbound at home.

Relax Kids: The Imaginarium

Relax Kids: The Imaginarium
Author: Marneta Viegas
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 184694421X

The Imaginarium (a place devoted to the imagination) has twenty-five chambers. Young people can walk through the corridors of their mind and step into the Chamber of Boundaries, Chamber of Acceptance, Chamber of Solutions and Chamber of Power. Here, they will learn tools and techniques to help them negotiate their thoughts and feelings. The Imaginarium is a powerful resource for teens and young people, as well as for adults, to help them manage their mental health, emotional health and well-being.

Pants of Peace

Pants of Peace
Author: Marneta Viegas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781782791997

An innovative book that helps children get in touch with a wide range of inner qualities and values through creative meditation and affirmations exercises. Examples include shoe of confidence, cloak of protection, pen of appreciation and hat of happiness. Each meditation takes a positive quality or value and shows children in a creative and imaginative way how to develop that quality to improve their own life. This book encourages children to enjoy moments of calm and also helps develop their imaginations in a world of electronic gadgets. Pants of Peace is perfect for parents and teachers to read with children. The exercises are a toolkit to help develop children's mental health and well-being. Regular listening to these simple meditations can help children become more self -aware, positive and confident. This book can be used at home to help children relax or in the classroom. Ages 6+ The Relax Kids series is currently available in Europe and will be available in US from 2015. CD available at http: //www.relaxkids.com/UK/Audio_CD

Sitting Still Like a Frog

Sitting Still Like a Frog
Author: Eline Snel
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0834829193

Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions—with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.

Breathe with Me

Breathe with Me
Author: Mariam Gates
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1683640519

When you're mad or worried or can't wake up in the morning, what can you do? Use the amazing superpower that you already have—breathing. Our newest offering from the bestselling creators of Good Night Yoga teaches kids fun and easy breathing practices based on the proven methods of yoga and mindfulness meditation. Sample practices: When something makes you mad or even feels unfair, try this counting breath and you’ll feel calmer there. Sit up and let your spine grow tall. Take a deep breath in, counting silently 1 . . . 2 . . . 3. Then let your breath out slowly, counting 1 . . . 2 . . . 3. When you go somewhere you’ve never been and you aren’t sure what to do, you can use a dandelion breath to feel more comfortable trying something new. Sit up and let your spine grow tall. Put one hand on your chest. Place your other hand on your belly. Take slow deep breaths and feel your chest and your belly move up and down as the air goes in and out of your body. At night when it’s hard to fall asleep because your mind is busy and your body feels tight, try balloon breath to get relaxed and ready for a good night. Lie down on your back and let your hands rest by your sides, palms up. Inhale through your nose and imagine filling your body with breath like a big balloon. Exhale and blow the air out through your mouth. What color is your balloon?