THE SELF-COMPASSION WORKBOOK FOR KIDS.Fun Mindfulness Activities to Build Emotional Strength and Make Kindness Your Superpower

Fun Mindfulness Activities to Build Emotional Strength and Make Kindness Your Superpower

Children today face many challenges; and if you are a parent, teacher, or a professional working with kids, you may be seeking answers on how to help children thrive in a world filled with uncertainty, adversity, and the detrimental effects of social media and screen-time overload. There are tools you can use to help kids build confidence and resilience, and cope effectively with difficult situations. This workbook is packed with a variety of hands-on practices to help children thrive—with kindness toward themselves and others.
In this fun and engaging workbook, cofounder of the Making Friends with Yourself program offers essential self-compassion and mindfulness skills to help kids build emotional strength and resilience. Kids ages 5 to 9 will find simple, age-appropriate practices based in loving-kindness and gratitude to self-soothe, reduce stress, and respond to their own emotional needs. They'll also learn to make kindness their “superpower,” quiet their inner bully, and protect and befriend themselves.

Lorraine M. Hobbs, MA, is founding director of the family programs at the University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Hobbs is cocreator of the Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens (MSC-T) program, and codeveloper of the MSC-T teacher training pathway. Amy C. Balentine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, and founder and director of the Memphis Center for Mindful Living, LLC. She is a mindfulness teacher at the University of California, San Diego's Center for Mindfulness; and codeveloper, with Hobbs, of A Friend in Me: A Self-Compassion Program for Kids and their Caregivers.