Kids and Teens
Teaching Mindfulness to Children and Teens
Mindfulness is increasingly taking its place alongside math and social studies. Here’s the latest on mindfulness for kids and teens.
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Kids and Teens
Welcome to Mindful.org's health section for kids and teens, a dedicated space where parents, educators, and caregivers can find mindfulness resources tailored for children's well-being. Our content is designed to nurture young minds, offering engaging articles, activities, and guided practices that promote emotional health, concentration, and a positive mindset in kids. From playful mindfulness exercises to strategies for coping with anxiety, our resources help children build resilience and develop healthy habits for life.
Calm
Mindful Parenting: 5 Tools to Set Healthy Limits for Your Child
While emphasizing structure for your child may not always feel good as a parent, doing so has profound value for kids’ development. Mark Bertin, pediatrician and author of How Children Thrive, explains how to create nurturing boundaries.
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Kids and Teens
5 Awesome Books for Kids About Mindfulness
A handful of the latest stories you might read with your child to help them learn about emotions, kindness, and mindfulness.
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Calm
5 Mindful Ways to Help Your Kids Find Calm
The founders of the Holistic Life Foundation share their tips for encouraging kids to be more mindful.
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Interviews
Reading Aloud: Teaching Kids About Mindfulness
Caverly Morgan, author and founder of the nonprofit Peace in Schools, reads a passage from her new children’s book A Kids Book About Mindfulness.
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Kids and Teens
Cultivating Courage and Confidence in Motherhood
By opening to our own moments of fear and self-doubt as parents, we can lighten the pressure on ourselves to always get it right—which lets us show up for our kids in profound ways.
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Calm
3 Mindful Practices for Resilient Kids
Back to school means lots of change this year. Here are a few ways to help kids build their capacity to be resilient, adaptable, and grounded through the transition.
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Compassion
How to Deepen Empathy and Reconnect with Your Estranged Child
If your adult child has stopped communicating, and their love seems to be long gone, don’t lose hope. Tina Gilbertson writes that a key step in healing estrangement occurs when parents bring empathy and compassion to the forefront of this fractured relationship.
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Anxiety
Can the Pandemic Help Teach Kids About Compassion?
Help your children navigate difficulty with these three science-backed ways to teach them to connect with their instinctual capacity for compassion.
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Anxiety
7 Mindful Parenting Lessons for the Pandemic
The responsibility to hold it all together for your family is a heavy one to carry, no matter what, but it’s lightened by allowing compassion and acceptance to shine brighter than ever.
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