• home
  • About
  • Books
  • music
  • speaking
  • Schools
    • Event Details
  • Blog & Events
  • Shop
  • Resources

Kira Willey

  • home
  • About
  • Books
  • music
  • speaking
  • Schools
    • Event Details
  • Blog & Events
  • Shop
  • Resources

Kira Willey

Back to all posts

STAY-CALM RESOURCES FOR THE KIDS (AND FOR YOU)


The kids are listening. 

Even when you think they aren’t. They hear what you’re saying, and they’re watching how you behave. 

We have choices, all day long (and the days can feel LONG, I know, I have three): do we need to repeat that rumor? Do we really want to speculate about what might happen, within their earshot? How are we dealing with our own stress? 

Simple practices of mindfulness can be incredibly helpful now. 

I’m offering my Mindful Moments for Kids collection free to all here. 

Go download all of them, right this minute. Put them on your phone, and work your way through them until you find a few that you and your kids love. 

Maybe you pick Bear Breath to settle down at bedtime. Count to Five to head off a meltdown. Get Your Grumpies Out to shake off a yucky mood. Flower Breath when you’re out in the yard or on a walk. Send Good Thoughts when you’re feeling helpless about a faraway grandparent. There are so many, you’re sure to find something that’s helpful. And please share this link with any parent or teacher you know. 

Lots of wonderful people, many of them friends of mine who are children’s musicians or teach kids’ yoga & mindfulness, are thinking of the children, too—here are some of their great free resources:

—Yoga4Classrooms is offering free mindful activities each day
—Yoga Ed offers this toolkit for managing anxiety, and Little Flower Yoga has these 5 ways to handle this stress with your kids 

—Some of my kids’ music friends—Suzi Shelton, Key Wilde, and Joanie Leeds, among others—are offering live concerts on Facebook—what a great way to enjoy live music, which has such a power to lift us all up! 

And for you: Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting (a must-read) has recorded an incredible series on how to handle the current situation with children AND teens.

As best you can, model positivity and optimism now. Choose your words carefully. Do your darndest to be creative—take advantage of these resources—and make the best of this crazy, disruptive time. 

Breathe.

03/18/2020

  • 3 comments
  • Share

3 comments

  • Sheilah Laffan
    Sheilah Laffan Canada
    Mar 18 2020 4:19 PM
    Thank you! I purchased your book and look forward to using your music with my daughter. In gratitude. Sheilah

    Thank you! I purchased your book and look forward to using your music with my daughter. In gratitude. Sheilah

  • Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio
    Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio Tehachapi
    Mar 26 2020 8:02 PM
    Hello Kira! I am so glad I found you. I have been using your book "Breathe Like a Bear" as part of my curriculum in my Drama for Little Ones class during our warm up. I am so excited to include more of your books and to learn from you for my own 5 year old as well. I love your post above so much about free things out there right now for our kiddos and the rest of us who need to stay inside right now during the current health crisis. I looked you up after I decided to read a little of one of my favorite kids books today for my students and parent clients in video form. Today I selected your book. I hope you think I did it justice. I'd love to continue to share as a reading with your blessing. Posting online right after this message. Tehachapi Academy of Dramatic Arts. https://www.facebook.com/TADAactingstudio/ Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio

    Hello Kira!
    I am so glad I found you. I have been using your book "Breathe Like a Bear" as part of my curriculum in my Drama for Little Ones class during our warm up.
    I am so excited to include more of your books and to learn from you for my own 5 year old as well.
    I love your post above so much about free things out there right now for our kiddos and the rest of us who need to stay inside right now during the current health crisis. I looked you up after I decided to read a little of one of my favorite kids books today for my students and parent clients in video form. Today I selected your book.
    I hope you think I did it justice. I'd love to continue to share as a reading with your blessing.
    Posting online right after this message.
    Tehachapi Academy of Dramatic Arts. https://www.facebook.com/TADAactingstudio/
    Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio

  • Kira Willey
    Kira Willey
    Mar 31 2020 12:24 PM
    Thank you Sheilah, I hope that you and your daughter enjoy the book :)

    Thank you Sheilah, I hope that you and your daughter enjoy the book smile

Add comment

  • Please log in or register to include your contact info.
  • Edit profile
  • Log out

 

  © 2017 Kira Willey. All rights reserved.