Friends and friendship is a very important part of any tween or teens life. How they interact with their peers can have a significant impact on how they feel about themselves and their lives at any point in time. To help your kids to be a little more mindful about their friends and friendship, we are sharing an activity today, from My Mindful Journal, which helps your children to focus on the positive relationships that they have with their peers.
We have discussed the importance of friendship and reading, and how it can help children with anxiety before on the site. This exercise for your kids, or your class, helps them to stop and be mindful about the friendships that they have in their lives, and which ones have a positive impact on their feelings.
Friends who lift me most activity for kids
Get your children to think careful about the friends they have that lift their spirits and get them to write their names down. They can then think in the moment about how they make them feel, and perhaps, depending on their age, why they make them feel this way too.
Perhaps get them to colour in the clouds on the exercise at the same time to focus the mind?
Mindfulness, the ability to bring a gentle, accepting feeling to the current moment in time, is a wonderful skill for our children to learn. Simple, small exercises like this can help children to start thinking about mindfulness, and how they can use it to calm themselves in everyday life.
Why not get them to check out our mindful activity for tweens that focuses on how they can learn from their mistakes too?
We hope you like this activity from My Mindful Journal, why not check it out in a little more detail if you do?
We do have other activities that encourage mindfulness – including our own colouring book that is both available from Amazon, as well as an eBook.
Mindfulness resources for kids
These mindfulness resources for kids are great resources to help you and your kids stay in the moment and live in the now.
Mindful art activities for children #31DaysOfLearning
Art activities that help kids to be mindful and stay in the moment.
10 ways mindfulness can help you be a better parent
Mindfulness for YOU so you can help your child better.
Free hippo mindful coloring pages: Buy our coloring book for adults and kids on Amazon today
Our hippo mindfulness colouring pages both for you and for your children.
How to help your kids mental health and wellbeing #31DaysOfLearning
Exercises to help your children be more mindful, including an excellent breathing exercise.
Free worry tree to help ease your kids fears
This is a brilliant tool to help kids talk about and "get rid of" their worries.
There are other sites with great resources too:
Mindful activities for kids from other sites
Here are a few more ideas for you about mindful activities that your kids can do today.
50 Mindful Journal Prompts for Teens
Some prompts for the journal that you might now have from Upside Down Books - or just some general journaling ideas for your kids.
Tip To Encourage Mindful Sibling Relationships
Ideas for encouraging mindful sibling relationships - something that we struggle with a little in our family...so perhaps some of you do to?
Inspiring Your Child to Love Themselves
Helping your kids with their self-esteem is a great way to encourage them to be more mindful too. Why not check out this advice to help them?
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!
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Tuesday 30th of June 2020
Thanks for all that valuable information!! I just want to say your article is very helpful, that’s very clear.
Mike Marko
Sunday 28th of June 2020
Thanks for sharing your fund and artistic activities at home.