For this week's kindness project, we focused our activity on a well-known Aesop's fable: "The Lion and the Mouse."
Reading the story
We first started off by reading the story...
Find the Singing Bowl Game
This is an awesome activity recommended by a local mom, who used to play this game when her kids were younger.  It's essentially a hide-and-seek game but with a singing bowl.  My girls...
Improv Makes Story Time a Mindful Time
While working in tech, I learned that improv has become a really popular practice in many business organizations to help employees build interpersonal and leadership skills. These...
Mindfulness for Itty Bitty Kids
I've learned from both girls that parents can introduce children to mindfulness as young as infants. Â While these itty bitty children may not fully understand how to use it in practice, the...
Guess the Letter/Shape on my Back
This activity is something that has been passed down in my family across generations- my grandmother did this activity my father, my father did it with me and now I have started doing it with my...
Foot Massage Gives Littles Deep Relaxation
Last night I organically discovered that a simple foot massage could become a "mindfulness practice" to help my daughters deeply relax after a bath or shower. We were doing their post-shower...
10 Minute Yoga Before Bedtime To Settle
My 5-year old asks me from time to time if we can do yoga together. Â So yesterday we decided to do a little bit of yoga before bedtime for some mindful movements. Â We kept the...
A Mindful Compassion Picnic
Impromptu picnics with my girls are wonderful opportunities to connect, get some fresh air and practice a little mindfulness.Â
Recently my older daughter and I had an after-school...
Using Our Ears: Mini Singing Bowl Breaks
I recently became the owner of Tibetan singing bowl. Figured it was time as I start diving into teaching mindfulness to children. What I didn't anticipate was how owning a singing bowl...
