A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and to identify and regulate emotions Playing games is a great way for kids to improve their focus and become more mindful. In this book, The Mindful Child author Susan Kaiser Greenland shares how parents, caregivers, and teachers can bring mindfulness into the classroom or home. She provides 50 entertaining games that develop what she calls the new A, B, C' s - Attention, Balance, and Compassion-for your child's learning, happiness, and success, offering context and guidance throughout. She introduces:

- Anchor games that develop concentration
- Visualization games that encourage kindness and focus
- Analytical games that cultivate clear thinking
- Awareness games for sensory awareness, self-regulating emotions, and gaining insight into ourselves, others, and relationships

Even though the games are designed for kids, they can be just as fun and transformative for adults. Greenland encourages parents and caregivers to develop their own Attention, Balance, and Compassion and to explore the universal concepts that she presents. Our own mindfulness has a powerful effect on everyone in our lives--especially our children.

Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families, Susan Kaiser Greenland, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 224 pp,
$16.95

Susan is a best-selling author and an internationally recognized leader in teaching mindfulness and meditation to children, teens, parents, and professionals. She developed the Inner Kids model while volunteering in public schools teaching secular mindfulness. Inner Kids is a hybrid of classical mindfulness and meditation practices adapted for children and one of the first mindfulness programs in education. Susan and her husband, Seth Greenland, founded The Inner Kids Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that taught secular mindfulness in schools and community-based programs in the greater Los Angeles area from 2001 through 2009. Research on the Inner Kids elementary school program was published in the Journal of Applied School Psychology. Susan played a foundational role in making mindfulness practices developmentally appropriate for young people. She helped pioneer activity-based mindfulness with her first book The Mindful Child. Her second book, Mindful Games, offers simple explanations of complex concepts, methods, and themes while expanding upon her work developing activity-based mindfulness practices. In addition to her work sharing mindfulness with kids, Susan has recorded a series of brief guided meditations for grownups entitled Mindful Parent, Mindful Child. Her work is featured in numerous magazines and newspapers, and she speaks widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers in the United States and abroad. Susan serves on the Advisory Board of the Tergar Schools Project, which is under the direction of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Her books have been translated into eleven languages. Susan lives in Los Angeles, CA, and Brooklyn, NY, with her husband. They have two grown children