A Kids Book About Mindfulness

A Kids Book About Mindfulness

By far the most disappointing "A Kids Book About" thus far.

This is bad. We started our "A Kids Book About" collection with 3 books to try them out...we loved all three so much that I went on a spree and bought nearly all of their titles because they are so helpful with our kids (aged 2-13, though obviously not doing much for the 2 year old). We've not read them all yet, but this was the first one that I read and wasn't very happy with. In fact, I'm not even slightly happy with it. It's just bad. It has a very large amount of text to it, and really doesn't stay on topic. It's not until near the end that it even talks about how to be mindful, and by then the kids were mentally gone. It's rambling, and was even a bit hard for me to grasp what they were trying to say. This might work for middle schoolers (although my 6th and 8th graders were long gone about halfway through and normally they're very focused on our family reading time), so maybe high schoolers...if you could get them to sit and have you read a book to them. But as a former K-8 teacher and mom of 6, I do not see a situation in which this book would be helpful. I really wish this had been better, and we'll still continue with our other "A kids book about..." but this is the first one we've read that's a bit more abstract, so I'm hoping all of the more creative themed ones aren't this dissatisfying.

The book is excellent and goes right to the heart of Mindfulness. It speaks as clearly to my inner child as much as it would to an actual kid. I'm looking forward to sharing it with the meditation group I facilitate (giving full credit, of course, to Caverly Morgan)