Mind Bubbles: Exploring mindfulness with kids
What an absolutely delightful guide to mindfulness for young children—and their parents. Using the metaphor of soap bubbles and charming illustrations, Heather Krantz offers children a way to begin to cultivate a relationship of friendliness and caring toward their ever changing inner world of thoughts and feelings. By including parents in this guide, children and parents together can nurture the life skill of mindfulness, potentially offering the foundation of a conversation about what it is to be human living in awareness that can last a lifetime. Thank you, Heather, for this wonderful gift to children, their parents and all who care for and about them!
Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA, Founding Director, Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting, author of Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond, Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco.
Nancy Bardacke, CNM, MA, Founding Director, Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting, author of Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond, Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco.
The gift of mindful awareness for your children. A gift for life .
This is a beautifully simple book explains mindfulness to children (and their parents!). It describes some quite complex ideas in a very easy and accessible way. This means that children of all ages can begin to be mindful and develop a life changing habit of awareness. In a rapidly changing world, where mental health problems are on the increase, nothing could be more important than this. So many adults who have come across mindfulness, wish they had been introduced to mindfulness as children. With this delightful book we can all help children cultivate mindful awareness, - a gift for life .
I think Heather Krantz has done a wonderful job with this book .
Eluned Gold, MSc, Director of Personal and Professional Programmes, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK.
This is a beautifully simple book explains mindfulness to children (and their parents!). It describes some quite complex ideas in a very easy and accessible way. This means that children of all ages can begin to be mindful and develop a life changing habit of awareness. In a rapidly changing world, where mental health problems are on the increase, nothing could be more important than this. So many adults who have come across mindfulness, wish they had been introduced to mindfulness as children. With this delightful book we can all help children cultivate mindful awareness, - a gift for life .
I think Heather Krantz has done a wonderful job with this book .
Eluned Gold, MSc, Director of Personal and Professional Programmes, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK.
Mindfulness is the ultimate self-regulation tool
I love books that give kids a concrete example of how to deal with abstract thoughts and feelings. This book teaches children how to focus on their breath while letting thoughts, feelings, and worries pop away like bubbles. This is a great book to introduce mindfulness meditation to children. Very practical and unique.
Ashley Soderlund, Ph.D.
Child Developmental Psychologist and mom
Author of NurtureandThriveBlog.com
I love books that give kids a concrete example of how to deal with abstract thoughts and feelings. This book teaches children how to focus on their breath while letting thoughts, feelings, and worries pop away like bubbles. This is a great book to introduce mindfulness meditation to children. Very practical and unique.
Ashley Soderlund, Ph.D.
Child Developmental Psychologist and mom
Author of NurtureandThriveBlog.com
Using a simple metaphor to teach important truths to kids
"Using the simple metaphor of bubbles, Heather Krantz shows kids simple and powerful ways to regulate their emotions. Mind bubbles are our thoughts and feelings and heart bubbles are our love and compassion. Learning to recognize and accept our mind bubbles, and remembering to keep a few heart bubbles for ourselves, are key skills for developing minds. I wish I had them when I grew up!"
Christopher Germer, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and lecturer (part-time) at Harvard Medical School
Co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
"Using the simple metaphor of bubbles, Heather Krantz shows kids simple and powerful ways to regulate their emotions. Mind bubbles are our thoughts and feelings and heart bubbles are our love and compassion. Learning to recognize and accept our mind bubbles, and remembering to keep a few heart bubbles for ourselves, are key skills for developing minds. I wish I had them when I grew up!"
Christopher Germer, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and lecturer (part-time) at Harvard Medical School
Co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program
Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion
