Help Your Kids Practice Mindfulness With These Meditation Apps
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Our friends at Common Sense Media are here to share the upside of technology and how it can help relieve your child's stress and increase their mindfulness.
Breath, Think, Do with Sesame
Age: 4+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
Adorable monster de-stresses kids with Sesame Street style.
Download it here.
Settle Your Glitter
Age: 4+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
Simple yet beautiful emotional-regulation tool for kids.
Download it here.
Super Stretch Yoga HD
Breathing Bubbles
Age: 5+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
Release worries and embrace joys with anxiety-fighting tool.
Download it here.
Mandala Memory
Age: 5+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Card-flipping memory game with beautiful patterns.
Download it here.
Ameka Love: The Journey to Crystal Mountain
Age: 6+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Problem-solving and meditation story has few features.
Download it here.
Wellbeyond Meditation for Kids
Age: 7+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Stop, breathe, reflect with easy intro to guided meditation.
Download it here.
IF . . . The Emotional IQ Game
Age: 8+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Fantasy game promotes real-life social and emotional skills.
Download it here.
Scape
Drift Away
Age: 9+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Guide bubble through nature obstacles in soothing app.
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Zen Bound 2 Universal
Age: 9+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Gorgeous and wholly original rope-wrapping puzzle.
Download it here.
Stop, Breathe & Think
Age: 10+
Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
Appealing tool guides meditation and promotes compassion.
Download it here.