Relating Effectively to Our Emotions By Wendy O'Leary, author of The Monster Parade At a book signing for Breathing Makes It Better, a woman told me her story about trying to use breathing strategies with her children. She said, “My children were fighting and I pointed to your book and said to them, ‘Hey, Breathing [...]

Free Companion Guide Download Download this companion guide for ideas on how to use Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger, ways to read together, and three activities to practice expressing how you feel. Intended to be used in conjunction with Happy Puppy, Angry Tiger by Betsy and Brad Petersen, this guide will be an invaluable resource to educators, [...]

Derailments in the Present Excerpt from Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst We all know it’s a mistake to personalize a child’s bad behavior. But in the heat of the moment, we often make difficult interactions with our children all about us. A mother whose nine-year-old daughter was engaging in [...]

Brain Plasticity An Excerpt from The Natural Laws of Children Living with a Child is Participating in the Specialization of its Brain Given this continuous synaptic pruning operating on the basis of frequency of experience, if a child is most frequently exposed to coarse, slangy vocabulary, even if it occasionally has the opportunity to hear [...]

Complementary Activities for Teachers & Caregivers by Christopher Willard and Wendy O’Leary Book & Activities are appropriate for children ages 3–6 Overview:  Read aloud and breathe along with this sweet story teaching children how to navigate powerful and sometimes overwhelming emotions. The rhythmic writing, recurring cues, and engaging illustrations support early literacy skills as well [...]

A Parade of Feelings and the Power of Body Based Visualization by Wendy O'Leary, author of Breathing Makes It Better I can see us now, my children and I on a frigid and snowy afternoon. Everyone’s patience was beginning to run low. I had to cancel several “important things” to be home for the day [...]

Supporting Our Children's Full Range of Emotions By Wendy O'Leary, author of Breathing Makes It Better When it comes to wishes for our children, "may you be happy" tops the list. But what does that mean and what can we do to support our children’s happiness? If you have children you know the feeling; the [...]

Mindful Games Activity Cards: 55 Fun Ways to Share Mindfulness with Kids and Teens ENTER YOUR EMAIL TO RECEIVE 10 FREE ACTIVITY CARDS AS A PRINTABLE PDF. Bring mindfulness to your daily routine with Mindful Games Activity Cards, developed and tested over many years of working with children and their caregivers. This download includes the [...]

Meditation Starting at Age Three The First Steps Most parents think that children are too young to meditate. How can they understand something that even adults have difficulty with? But in reality, young children are closer to their innate nature, and they are at the age where everything is possible. This means that any child [...]