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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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.
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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Mindfulness for Kids
When we teach mindfulness to kids, we equip them with tools to build self-esteem, manage stress, and skillfully approach challenges. Explore our guide on how to introduce mindfulness and meditation to your children—at any age.
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Focus
Teaching That Empowers Creative Minds
For Ashanti Branch, the principles of creative problem-solving are key to empowering young people of color.
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Compassion
How to Bring More Peace and Presence to Family Life
Elisha Goldstein and Stefanie Goldstein offer seven ways you can strengthen your family’s bonds using mindfulness.
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Anxiety
5 Ways to Reimagine Life in Quarantine
How we respond during COVID-19—either sliding into a rut, or dreaming bigger—defines whether we’ll be able to thrive collectively on the other side of the crisis.
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Calm
7 Classic Children’s Books That Teach Kids Mindfulness
Along with newer children’s books about mindfulness, many beloved picture books also offer mindful messages about kindness, friendship, and contemplating the world around us. Here are a few of our favorites.
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Calm
Helping Children Embrace Big Emotions
What we wish most for our children is that they may be happy. When facing times of crisis, or simply life’s regular ups and downs, what can we do to support our children’s search for sustainable happiness?
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