101: Tips For Raising Mindful Children With ZenPalz Founders Elsa Pine + Jessica Salonna

Today I’m talking to Jessica Salona and Elsa Pine, the creators of ZenPalz.com where they Share Mindfulness for kids through Meditation + Imagination. Together they help to create tools to help children learn to meditate, cope, and use their creative imaginations.  

On their website zenpalz.com they have - different meditations for children, healthy tips and meals, bedtime stories, arts and crafts - it’s a really great resource.  You can purchase either Rosie the unicorn or Jasper the fox, which come with a meditation mask for the toy and for the child, a rose quartz crystal in a secret pocket and it can sit with legs crossed or place a paw on her heart space.  

We have Rosie the unicorn in our home - and my daughter who is 5 absolutely loves her.  I share in the episode how we practice meditation and mindfulness and Rosie is such a great tool for kids to do that. 

In this episode we share a lot of tips for raising children that are mindful.  Studies show that the benefits of mindfulness for kids include:  increased focus, attention, self-control, classroom participation, compassion, improved academic performance, ability to resolve conflict and overall well-being.   Mindfulness also  decreases levels of stress, depression, anxiety, disruptive behavior.

We have created a free resource for you - a downloadable guide that gives you ways to create a mindfulness corner in school or at home.  You can find this guide by going to healthwithmichaela.com/mindfulkids.

I hope you enjoy this episode, and please share with another mom or a teacher so we can help to bring more mindfulness into other people's lives - which will make this world a better place.
 
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