Kids for Kids a Mindfulness Movement

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Join us with The Wellness Institute on Thursday, February 8, 8:00-9:30 p.m. EST for a virtual webinar, Emotional Regulation Skills, with Dr. Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza, co-developer of the DBT for Schools (DBT STEPS-A).

Learn why children struggle with emotional and behavioral challenges, and provide practical strategies you can use to model and teach your children vital skills, fostering improved emotional regulation over time.

Register at go.wellnessinstitute.org/emotionregulation with promo code: childmind18.

Anxiety talks to all of us, try talking back more like this!

Here’s some more insight to the stress responses in kids!
Fight 👊, Flight ✈️ , Freeze 🥶

The internet can be a dangerous place for children, here are a couple of thing to teach your child for safer online use!

It’s important for people of all ages to take care of themselves. Here are some ways you can practice self care!

Children can show their anxiety without saying it’s anxiety, here’s some behaviors and feelings to look out for!

Consider these questions to have a safer sleepover experience for your child!

It’s a tricky conversation but an important one!

A heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone that joined Mindfully Aware for our launch event last night! A special thanks to Alluem Yoga, for hosting us, and to our guest speaker Michelle Sutton, for sharing her moving story in such a brave and loving way. You are amazing Michelle💛

Many performers captured the spirit of hope throughout the evening - especially our local Scotch Plains youth Shiloh Verrico - your voice and presence was felt by everyone in the room and the Disneychannel is incredibly lucky to have found you! Westfield youth and our dear friend, carried on the message through his poetic voice and empowering words for our community to stay involved.

Lastly, our long time musical supporters, Vincent Boyce of Blqlab and to support the evening with their peaceful musical talent.

Please continue to follow us and be sure to join us at future events! Visit us at mindfullyawarenj.org to see how you can support our mission through your time, involvement or financial contribution.

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Taking a long break to breathe, rebalance and untangle some messy feelings in order to be more clear on my journey. Still working on what’s next but the breathing is deeper so the clarity will soon follow. Great visual found

World mental health day couldn’t come at a better time. In the current climate it’s important to remember to care for yourself and help others do the same.

Always remember the importance of play. For children (and adults!) it’s the gateway to expression, learning and growth.

Wishing all that celebrate a happy and peaceful new year.

Upper NYS getaway. Family time💛

Always take your time to build true lasting trust.

Teach the things that count most 1st. Kindness, Love and Acceptance. And always top it off with more LOVE!❤️ ❤️

Feel good do good. Period. We can help kids feel@good. Everyday in every way possible. Then we will@see kids showing love, feeling love and showing it! 🔥💥💕❤️

I had just stepped out of my car and into the hands and arms of my first love. My dad. His embrace, his presence, his inability to say “I love you” but his ability to make it be known. Yes, at age 50 - I can now see so so clearly the many ways he showed me love. To all dads, dads that say I love you, dads that show it, dads that try but can’t be the dad they should be, dad’s that are gone but forever in our hearts, dads that yell at us, dads that cry with us, dads that work hard for us, dads that try to create as much as equality to show their daughters you CAN have it all. To my dad. To all dads. Thank you.

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Registration OPENS TOMORROW!! SIGN THEM parents! We promise to keep them engaged and busy for 1 virtual hour a day with mindful zip kits delivered daily with a smile and 1 hour lessons and activities for kids ages 6-11!

Join us tomorrow at 6:30 for some smokin’ flow in’ yoga with beautiful Brandi. Donation go to pals - peace ales red solution! A one year healing program for mom and Children HEALING from domestic violence. Now, my mindful friends, what’s better than that!? Be there or be ◼️ #🖤

Do you know how and why the little black boy, Franklin, came to join the Peanuts comic strip? I didn't know until a few minutes ago. Shultz had to buck the system to do it.
On July 31, 1968, a young, black man was reading the newspaper when he saw something that he had never seen before. With tears in his eyes, he started running and screaming throughout the house, calling for his mom. He would show his mom, and, she would gasp, seeing something she thought she would never see in her lifetime. Throughout the nation, there were similar reactions.

What they saw was Franklin Armstrong's first appearance on the iconic comic strip "Peanuts." Franklin would be 50 years old this year. (2018)

Franklin was "born" after a school teacher, Harriet Glickman, had written a letter to creator Charles M. Schulz after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death outside his Memphis hotel room.

Glickman, who had kids of her own and having worked with kids, was especially aware of the power of comics among the young. “And my feeling at the time was that I realized that black kids and white kids never saw themselves [depicted] together in the classroom,” she would say.

She would write, “Since the death of Martin Luther King, 'I’ve been asking myself what I can do to help change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, hate, fear and violence.'”

Glickman asked Schulz if he could consider adding a black character to his popular comic strip, which she hoped would bring the country together and show people of color that they are not excluded from American society.

She had written to others as well, but the others feared it was too soon, that it may be costly to their careers, that the syndicate would drop them if they dared do something like that.

Charles Schulz did not have to respond to her letter, he could have just completely ignored it, and everyone would have forgotten about it. But, Schulz did take the time to respond, saying he was intrigued with the idea, but wasn't sure whether it would be right, coming from him, he didn't want to make matters worse, he felt that it may sound condescend

And the beat goes on! Unbelievable- what our community and more importantly what our KIDS can do when they pull together. Collection will go on as long as the need is there. “If you can’t fly, run, If you can’t run, walk and if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do keep moving.” ~ MLK @ Scotch Plains, New Jersey

Support for our fab teachers who’ve worked hard during this crazy at home learning times!

Trauma is always lurking in ones mind, body and heart. Before ANYTHING our students must feel safe. LETS HELP THEM FEEL SAFE. Eyes, ears and heart wide open.

Repost such an important message - for all!!! I’ve always said “flying through life in tandem.” ❤️💕🌏 #🌏 #💕 #🏡 #💙 #🖤 #♥️