Mindful Moments Blog

Social Distancing Impact on Children

We share parents' top concerns and frustrations about their children’s behaviors during this time of staying home, and tools for navigating regression and other stress responses.

Homeless Families In The Age Of The Coronavirus

Read about how the coronavirus is affecting the homeless population and what we can do to help.

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

Four tips to help parents create meaningful and effective in-home learning opportunities during the pandemic.

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

These printable mantra bracelets are a great way for parents to share comforting and empowering mantras with children as young as age two on up. Because when we feel worthy and loved, we respond as if we are worthy and loved. And when we feel powerless and not enough, we respond as...

Who Needs a Laugh?

In the face of COVID-19, Generation Mindful spreads some light-hearted humor with a post for parents that went viral.

Reducing Toddler Tantrums

One family’s journey using time-ins to manage their toddler's big feelings, going from 33 to 3 tantrums a day in just one week.

When Your Child Fears The Coronavirus: 8 Tips for Taming Anxiety

As a parent, what do you do when your child has fears that feel out of their control - things like viral outbreaks and global warming? Learn 8 tips for taming fears and anxieties through connection.

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Sierra has struggled to cultivate language for how her disability impacts her own social-emotional development and how it impacts her experiences at school. This struggle has been a barrier to Sierra’s ability to create positive relationships with her classmates.

Teaching Academics and Social-Emotional Skills in the Montessori Classroom

Emily Canibano, a Montessori teacher with a classroom of 16 students ranging in age from 1.2 to 5.5 years, was looking for a way to teach social-emotional skills in her classroom, both in feeling emotions and in the safe expression of them.

Morning Meetings and Connecting a Classroom

A the school counselor shares how her school transformed its classroom culture by using SnuggleBuddies plush toys to teach students about their emotions.

Teaching The Whole Learner: School Spotlight on Bloom360

Bloom360 Learning Community, a nonprofit school in southeastern Wisconsin for Learners ages 5 to 21 with neurodiverse needs, based their entire 2019/20 school year curriculum themes around the PeaceMakers themes of Power, Joy, Balance, Love, Peace, Intuition, and Forgiveness, and the outcomes are inspiring.

From Classroom to Home: One Teacher's Journey to Positive Parenting

After maternity leave, I decide to shift from my role as a teacher of an academic classroom to that of teaching our “one and only.” My full momma heart told me that I would nail it. I mean, how hard could it be to teach one child when I had...

Make Connection a Habit

social emotional skills

Social Distancing Impact on Children

Homeless Families In The Age Of The Coronavirus

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

Who Needs a Laugh?

Reducing Toddler Tantrums

When Your Child Fears The Coronavirus: 8 Tips for Taming Anxiety

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Teaching Academics and Social-Emotional Skills in the Montessori Classroom

Morning Meetings and Connecting a Classroom

Teaching The Whole Learner: School Spotlight on Bloom360

From Classroom to Home: One Teacher's Journey to Positive Parenting

Together we are raising an emotionally healthy world.