Kids

Visiting Feelings encourages children to treat their feelings like guests -- welcome them in, get to know them, and perhaps learn why they are visiting. Through this purposeful and mindful exploration, Visiting Feelings harnesses a young child's innate capacity to fully experience the present moment and invites children to sense, explore, and befriend all of their feelings with acceptance and equanimity.

A Note to Parents provides more information about emotional awareness and mindfulness, plus practical advice and activities for introducing mindfulness into daily family routine.

When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.

Emma's little brother Henry is a good kid--but when his day has been too busy and too full, Henry can become a hurricane!  Emma wishes that she could teach Henry to be still.  One day, she shows Henry how meditation can make a big difference in both of their lives.

Feeling too grumpy to fly, Bird begins to walk and finds that his mood changes as other animals join him.

As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.

While Pig is trying to finish a thank-you note to his grandmother, his best friend Rabbit repeatedly interrupts to borrow supplies for a series of his own notes, thanking all of the special people in their lives.

For children and teens (and even grown-ups) who ever feel angry, disappointed, or stressed out about family problems, school, bullies, trouble with friends, or life in general, mindfulness can help!  Master of Mindfulness was written for kids, by kids, and provides all the tips young people need to get started on a mindfulness practice of their own.

A little girl and her father take a quiet walk and identify the sounds around them.