Mindful Monsters: Roar Your Worries Away: 1

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Mindfulness has been a buzzword for quite a while now but that does not mean that people actually know what it it or even how to put it into action. I have written recently about how to raise a mindful child if you want more depth on this subject The aim of this post is to explore mindfulness and share you really simple ways to explore this concept with you kids through using a variety of books and Scope’s Mindful Monsters Mindful Monsters Mindful Monsters won Golds for Best Creative Solution, Best Launch Campaign and Best Health and Wellness campaign. It also won Silver for Best Charity campaign. The monster did not go away. He never did what Oliver asked him to. Oliver looked at his monster closely. Pain Monster: Picture your monster standing in front of you and see if you can let go of any resistance you feel as you simply observe it. Treat it with compassion, the way you might welcome a friend into your home even if they are dirty, smelly, cranky and tired from a long day. You don’t have to like how they look or smell to welcome them in. Your poor monster has nowhere else to go and just needs to be accepted unconditionally and cared for. The Mindful Monsters cards launch this week. Take a look, I think they are completely fabulous – a brilliant investment of time and into your child’s wellbeing!

We conducted insight interviews with mums with primary school children and uncovered that they wanted to build their children’s emotional resilience so they are able to thrive in an uncertain world. But the monster jumped harder inside Oliver’s tummy. He only stopped when Oliver invited the little girl bear to play with him. It felt good to help the little girl bear. Whether you are looking for inventive ways to provide interventional support, or simply looking for ways to keep your children occupied on a rainy day, these Twinkl original worksheets are a great way to enhance engagement. If you have any questions about Mindful Monsters do pop on over and have a look at the Mindful Monsters FAQ’s The Feelings Monster Pattern Tracing Activity - Invite children to practise pencil control as they trace over the dotted lines shown on the monsters with this handy Feelings Monster Pattern Tracing Activity. Children can also be encouraged to talk about how they think the monsters are feeling, while they work on their fine motor skills. You can ask them to use coloured pencils to trace over the lines to match a colour to how the monster is feeling. For example, the happy monster could be decorated using yellow pencils and for the angry monster, children could use red pencils.

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So yes I do highly recommend these cards – they are a brilliant way to connect with your kids and encourage them to be more mindful and support for a truly wonderful charity along the way . The illustrations are fun and colourful and it's great to see the way the monster emotions change in the story going from bold and scary to milder and more cuddly looking. This is a clever way to help the children understand what mindfulness can do and that emotions don't have to be scary. This activity can also be incorporated into a Monster Meditation (pg. 65 of the Mindful Monsters Workbook).

Yes, particularly the worry monster card. We have noticed a decrease in bad dreams and a lot more 'opening up' about worries and fears. Even if you try to make a pompom monster look ugly and scary, it will almost always turn out adorable. Children’s attitudes toward their feelings usually begin to soften when you remind them that the pompom monster represents the same difficult emotions their drawing did. You can compare the two activities to help children understand that the difference is in their perception. Darcie Nuttall is a counsellor, author, and mindfulness educator. She has worked with children, schools, and families in the greater Boston area for 18 years. Her children’s books, Yipper and His Quest for Mindfulness and The Mindful Monster, are used in schools and private counselling settings to promote mindfulness practices.af-form-298505444 button,#af-form-298505444 input,#af-form-298505444 submit,#af-form-298505444 textarea,#af-form-298505444 select,#af-form-298505444 label,#af-form-298505444 optgroup,#af-form-298505444 option{float:none;position:static;margin:0;} If you want to incorporate a version of “Color-your-life” (pg. 55 of the Mindful Monsters Workbook), have them assign a color to each feeling and use varying amounts of colored yarn to show how much they feel each emotion. Work together to create a pompom out of yarn that the child can decorate to make their feelings monster.

Be Mindful of Monsters is a fantastic book to help children understand their emotions and why we have emotions. The story follows a child called Ezzy who feels uncomfortable with his feelings and they feel like big scary monsters but once his mum explains to him about why they're there and how to calm them down Ezzy manages to cope with the big emotions. After learning the concepts of “sitting with” or “holding” emotions, children can practice these skills with their pompom monster as a physical representation of their emotions. I think my son spoke more about his feelings but no impact on his behaviour and actually during a meltdown or a tantrum, he would not have the patience for the activities. I saw them more for bonding and communication between parent and child and getting children to discuss feelings and being kind to one another rather than connected to behaviour and actually there was no guidance on how to use the cards when dealing with perhaps challenging behaviour. Here’s some more information on Mindful Monsters and what they have to say: “Mindful Monsters is a series of fun, family activity cards, which come with all the benefits of mindfulness – helping children to be more resilient, focused, positive, creative and kind. Each month, you will receive seven exciting family activity cards inspired by mindfulness straight to your door. You’ll find activities that can create belly-busting laughter or diffuse tearful tantrums and turn potential meltdown triggers – like getting ready for school or going to bed – into magic moments together. And, best of all, each activity takes as little or as long as you like and can fit into the busiest of days. Fighting the monster or shutting it out in the cold will only make things worse. Explore ways to accept the monster and discuss what it needs.

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Encouraging children to create sensory representations of their emotions using colors, sounds or other mediums is a common mindfulness intervention that enhances emotional awareness and facilitates the expression of feelings. In this simple activity, the client imagines what their emotions would be like if they were monsters. Not only does this help the client come to a stronger understanding of their inner world, it allows the therapist to begin assessing their client’s relationship to their feelings. As children process their thoughts and experiences over the course of treatment, we tend to see the way they regard their emotions shift naturally away from avoidance or resistance and toward acceptance. Repeating this directive again at a later stage of treatment can sometimes show that a client feels more compassion for the monsters or that their attitude toward their feelings has shifted. Putting a digital twist on this intervention by providing software options allows for easy tweaks to fit a wide variety of needs and modalities, and can also help to open up creative avenues for clients. Not really. The activities seemed a bit old for my 4yo who was more interested in sorting the cards by colour than doing what was on them. Sometimes he got more involved but it was a bit patchy.

Do you think Mindful Monsters activities positively impacted your child's behaviour? If so, how? She was very interested in looking at the cards and some of the activities. I think as she's only 4 she's still a little young for some of it. I think there were some nice cards that worked in my school setting for 5-6 year olds though. Here at Twinkl, we understand that learning isn’t simply confined to the classroom. That is why these wonderful monster colouring are equally effective when used for home learning exercises.

The monsters are all wonderfully drawn; I love the variety of textures and forms they have. Each are so unique and wondrous. I like the way the illustrator has thought about how the creatures will hang around Ezzy, and the way they loom over him in the earlier stages; as if they’re overpowering. And then later on in the book, they’ll often be smaller. It’s really nice visual way to show that they’re not as powerful anymore. af-form-298505444 select,#af-form-298505444 label,#af-form-298505444 optgroup,#af-form-298505444 option{padding:0;} The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”– Matthieu Ricard Scope currently support around 250,000 disabled people and their families every year; by 2022 their goal is to increase this figure to 2 million. They are a n a mazing charity whose w=focus is very much on wellness and life quality Mindful Monsters from Scope What did you like most about the Mindful Monsters product? I liked the cards and the ideas. I liked that it covered lots of different areas of PSHE.