Calm Kids
Help Children Relax with Mindful Activities  
    'At school, we believe education should touch the whole child. This includes the physical, 
emotional, spiritual, social and cognitive aspects of the child's life. 
We teach children quietness as a skill to reflect and recharge their inner lives. 
Lorraine Murray helped us on this journey.' -- Sheila Laing, Head Teacher Stress and 
behavioural disorders are common in children, who are increasingly bombarded by 
marketing campaigns, faced with school and peer pressure, and able to sense the 
stress of adults around them. 
    Mindfulness and meditation can help children recognise 
and cope with these pressures, releasing bad feelings gently and giving them simple 
tools to deal with tension and stress throughout their lives. In this practical and 
inspiring book, Lorraine Murray shows parents, teachers and youth workers how to 
lead fun and peaceful meditation sessions with children. Lorraine explains a variety 
of different approaches, from meditations around daily activities for busy families, 
to ideas for group 'quietness' sessions in schools. She provides fun, tactile rhymes 
for toddlers to help them calm down before bedtime, and suggests ways to help 
teenagers reduce anxiety. She goes on to explain how these methods can help 
children with ADHD and those on the autistic spectrum, giving a range of case studies. 
This book is suitable for complete beginners, or those with some experience 
of relaxation and meditation techniques. 
    It offers all the advice needed to lead sessions with children, whilst encouraging
the reader to adapt and develop their own ways of helping children to feel calmer, 
happier and more peaceful.