Mindful Parenting

This book was written to teach children to take a pause in their lives, to stop activity, to understand quiet time, and to think about what they are doing and where they are going.

This book provides practices and activities to cultivate mindfulness, resilience and compassion.

This book offers a new approach towards self-regulation and child expression, focusing on the family as a whole to create a calmer, more equitable home environment.

These 30 simple, short breathing practices and movements can be performed anytime, anywhere: in the car to the grocery store, during heavy homework nights at home, or even at a child’s desk at school.

Easy-to-follow practices that will help moms find quick, daily opportunities to reset and refocus with mindfulness.

This book gives parents, teachers, therapists, tools to teach mindfulness to kids through yoga.

This book provides practical strategies for teaching Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), mindfulness, movement, and team-building to help your students grow into contributing and compassionate citizens of the world.

This book explores the ways in which the time we spend with our children can be calmer and more fulfilling.

These 50 unique mindfulness cards teach awareness activities, how to be present in the moment, and to cultivate kindness & curiosity.

This updated Growing Mindful card deck kit features 56 unique mindfulness activities to teach awareness, how to be present in the moment, and cultivate kindness and curiosity.

Growing Up Mindful helps parents, educators, and counselors learn how to embody and share the skills of mindfulness that will empower our children with resilience throughout their lives. Includes more than 75 accessible exercises and practices.

Perfect for the classroom or for bedtime, this book’s gentle, concrete narration brings the tenets of mindfulness to a kid-friendly level.

This calming story will help children calm their anxieties when things do not go according to plan, when crowds get overwhelming, or when they are tired.

Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement.

This book guides parents through meditation to practice mindfulness and self-care.

This kit has 44 practices to help anxious and worried minds. Kids can learn how to regulate their thoughts and emotions and find ways to express themselves in a healthy way.

Raising happy, compassionate, and responsible children requires both love and limits. This book weaves together ancient wisdom and modern science to provide new perspectives on parenting and discipline.

Also available as an audiobook on 6 CDs.

Playing games is a great way for kids to develop their focusing and attention skills and to become more mindful. This card deck helps parents, caregivers, and teachers cultivate these qualities at home or in a school setting.

This book presents a proven-effective program for helping both parents and kids with ADHD stay calm in the present moment. Parents will also learn how to let go of judgments, reasonably assess their child’s strengths and weaknesses, lower stress levels for both themselves and their child, communicate effectively, and cultivate balance and harmony at home and at school.

This book is designed for caregivers of sick individuals, which could include parents, and explains mindfulness and the benefits of practicing it.

This kit has 52 exercises and practices to help kids calm their mind and body, pay attention, become more self-aware, feel happier and confident, connect with others, and have fun.

This kit combines yoga, meditation, and mindfulness to calm emotions and promote self-regulation in children.

This workbook for parents is centered around mindfulness and staying calm while parenting.

This book presents hand-on activities to help children and adults relieve stress, increase concentration and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, and improve communication. It includes over 30 full-color illustrations and an audio CD with songs and easy to follow practices.

This book gives parents a guide on how to practice mindful parenting instead of reactive parenting. This guide talks about how to keep your cool, practicing compassion, etc.

Ready, Set, Breathe will show you and your child how to focus, calm down, and live in the present moment. Designed for children ages 2-10 years old, this book is fun, engaging, and effective.

This book helps parents develop awareness and skills to become the parents they want to be and the parents their children need. Designed for parents in recovery.

This introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents includes practices that can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

This book is all about parenting and the goals and myths of it. Mindless reactions and mindful presence is discussed.

This book will teach you how practicing mindfulness can help your child refocus attention to reduce anxiety and control emotions and behavior.

Mindfulness is the easy way to gently let go of stress and be in the moment. This book will show you how to bring simple 5- and 10-minute practices into your day in order to free yourself from stress and, ultimately, find more peace in your life.

This book will encourage children to build awareness of their inner and outer worlds by helping children manage transitions, stress, friendships, anger, how to build self-confidence and communication skills.

Visiting Feelings encourages children to treat their feelings like guests — welcome them in, get to know them, and perhaps learn why they are visiting. Through this purposeful and mindful exploration, Visiting Feelings harnesses a young child’s innate capacity to fully experience the present moment and invites children to sense, explore, and befriend all of their feelings with acceptance and equanimity.

This kit has over 50 activities for children to decrease stress and navigate the stressors of life without becoming overwhelmed. Mindfulness is used throughout the activities.

This DVD will teach how to focus your attention in a brand new way in order to improve your overall health and well-being.

Located at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

This article refers to interventions that support for the mental health and overall well-being of these parents as self-help programs, including mindfulness and compassion meditation.

This article describes a mindfulness-based intervention with preschoolers and its results.

This site offers some of the benefits of mindfulness and how it relates to social-emotional learning (SEL) and shares 51 tips and activities for teaching students how to practice mindfulness.

This site includes information about mindfulness and how to get started with mindfulness.

a list of research articles on mindfulness.

This site has four main topics which are how can mindfulness help, the COAL mindfulness activity, the 4, 5, 6 breathing activity, and an activity for practicing self-compassion. 

This site provides the basics on mindful parenting and tells how it is different from mindfulness in general. The effectiveness of mindful parenting is also talked about. 

This site has information on how to raise a mindful family and provides multiple ways to practice mindfulness.

This site provides a basic introduction to mindfulness and how you can introduce mindfulness to young children.