Best Day Yet: Affirmations, Meditations, & Mindfulness For Kids

Brand new episode out today and it's all about the cells in our body cheering us on! We wrote and recorded this episode in response to a listener who asked for ways to feel less lonely.

This is our last episode in season 3.  We are taking a break from writing and producing to slow down and be more mindful in our personal lives. Thank you for your patience as we take care of ourselves during this time.

This new episode is all about appreciating our miraculous bodies.

Our bodies do a lot for us every day and sometimes we forget to say thank you.

So today we're going to thank our eyes, our ears, our noses, our mouths, our digestive systems, our hands, our legs, and our feet.

Just like you like it when someone takes the time to appreciate you for who you are, your body likes it too.

Get ready, bodies, we're going to appreciate you!

Today's Affirmations:

• My body is one of a kind
• My body is just right
• My body deserves kindness and respect
• I am thankful for my body

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Mindfulness tools + Positive Thinking Adventures for a Calm & Confident School Day

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

Today's episode is a POWER EPISODE jam packed with affirmations for self-confidence to help kids

feel their best and have a calm, happy day.

Today we imagine a visit from a dream pet, and we are reminded that we are totally enough exactly as we are.

Today's affirmations: 

I am enough

I am totally, completely enough

I love myself exactly as I am

I am smart enough

I am good enough

I am LOVED enough

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Mindfulness tools + Positive Thinking Adventures for a Calm & Confident School Day

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

We originally recorded this song in March of 2020. Now, nearly two years later, we still think it's important to wash our hands thoroughly and mindfully, so we're re-releasing this song as a tool for health and kindness inside and out. Whether you're learning it for the first time, or listening again, we hope you enjoy this song.

What if instead of singing Happy Birthday each time we wash our hands, we sing a song that wishes ourselves and our world safety, health, peace, and kindness.

We recorded a 20 second hand washing song to sing every time we wash our hands. This song was inspired by the ancient practice of loving kindness or metta meditation. There’s a lot of modern research that says loving kindness is a powerful tool that increases the well-being of both kids and adults.

This is a hugging meditation for kids, based on the practice created by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Science says that kids who are hugged a lot actually grow smarter, bigger, healthier, calmer, and more resilient than kids who are rarely hugged. Pediatricians recommend that all kids get at least 17 hugs a day! We better get hugging right away!

For this practice you will need a stuffed animal, a pet, a friend, or a family member.

If you're in the car and don't have any of those things available, don't worry...because you can hug yourself!

Today's affirmations are based on the way we feel when we get a really good hug:

I am happy

I am loved

I am well protected

Today is going to be a good day

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Mindfulness tools + Positive Thinking Adventures for a Calm & Confident School Day

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

Grab your flashlights, we're going to a haunted house! Kid listeners call in with their tips on staying calm in spooky situations and then we put those tips to use while we walk through a dark house with...monsters?

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Mindfulness tools + Positive Thinking Adventures for a Calm & Confident School Day

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

Today's episode is all about overcoming fears. In this episode listeners get to meet a special guest. (Spoiler alert...it's our dog Lucy, who had a rough start and once was afraid of pretty much everything!)

In this episode we play a mindful breathing game and practice the following affirmations:

Feelings come and feelings go

It's alright, I'm okay

I am safe

I am braver than my fear

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Mindfulness tools + Positive Thinking Adventures for a Calm & Confident School Day

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

Today's episode is for deep relaxation.

It's perfect for right before kids nap, go to sleep, or if kids need a relaxing break.

This sleep adventure is based on the practice of yoga nidra, yet done is a super kid-friendly way with a hummingbird helper!

Today's affirmations:

You are safe

You are calm

You are protected

You are at peace

Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

We practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

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This episode is for whenever kids need a calming reset.

It's a perfect listen for whenever kids are transitioning from one activity to another, or if they need a short break to calm down.

In the practice, we imagine that we can control the ocean waves with our breath, and (surprise!) we get to meet some friendly sandpipers.

Today's affirmations:

• You are calm
• You are strong
• Good things are coming your way.

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At Best Day Yet we create:

• Mindfulness tools for kids
• Positive affirmations for kids
• Calming meditations for kids

We're about to release Season 3 of Best Day Yet, but as we prepare, we thought we'd share an episode from Season 1 all about making new friends.

To make it even more fun, we get to trade our legs in for tail fins and swim with an animal friend (Surprise—it's a dolphin!) who teaches us all about friendliness and how to be a good friend.

Today's affirmations:

• I am warm and bright
• I am compassionate
• I am a wonderful friend
• I am a magnet for friendship
• I treat everyone with kindness and respect
• Other kids really need a friend like me 
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Best Day Yet is an AFFIRMATION podcast for KIDS!

Together families practice...

🧘🏽‍♀️ Mindful breathing

🐆 Animal adventures

💗 Positive Affirmations

in a way that is FUN and EMPOWERING for kids and adults alike!

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Today's episode is a wish you well car ride episode. (But you can listen to it at home too. ;)

We're going to practice wishing other people, animals, trees and even your car well.

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Today's episode teaches kids all about being helpful.

It's a reminder that when we help others, we are also helping ourselves. And, we're going on an adventure!

That's right. Today we're going deep under the ocean to meet a fish that helps others.

But I have to warn you that the part of the ocean that we're going to has...a lot of sharks.

Today we practice mindfulness by deep belly breathing ourselves a big shark-proof bubble and these affirmations:

I am a helper

Helping others makes me feel good

The more I help others, the more I grow.

I look for the chance to help someone else's day.

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This episode is for any time that it feels like nothing is going your way.

In this episode we practice mindfulness and gratitude by counting good things on each of our five fingers.

Here's how we count our blessings using the five fingers on one hand:

• Your thumb stands for a relationship.
• Your pointer stands for an opportunity.
• Middle man stands for a place.
• Index finger stands for something you love.
• Your pinky stands for a simple joy.

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In every episode of Best Day Yet, we teach kids tools for mindful breathing, mindfulness, and positive affirmations.

Today's episode we're going to go to a field of daisies to celebrate YOU!

This episode includes mindful breathing and positive affirmations on the theme of honoring and appreciating ourselves.

Today's affirmations:

I love my body 

I love myself

Every day I appreciate myself more and more

and the people I meet can see me for who I am

and they appreciate me too

I am good and bright

inside and out

Every day I get better 

and better at loving Myself

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NEW EPISODE!! This episode is a mooooood booster. It's for listening to when you're...well maybe not in the happiest mood. 

We're going to learn some powerful words that will help us start our day in a better mood. And we're going to meet some very cute animals that will teach us all about happiness, peace, and joy.

Today's Affirmations:

• Today is going to be an amazing day
• Today I choose peace
• I choose happiness
• I choose joy
• Today I'm going to let my light shine

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Today we're going on a listening walk!

We're going to head into the forest and listen for birds. And we're going to practice affirmations about diversity and accepting others for exactly who they are.

Today's Affirmations:

• People are different and that's okay
• I look for the good in everyone
• I love myself for who I am, and I let others be who they are
• It's fun to have friends who look different than me
• When I see someone who looks different than me, I wish them well

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This practice is for whenever kids or families need a calming "reset". It would be perfect listening for a mindful brain break in virtual or homeschooling or to help calm and connect just before bed.In this episode we practice calming mudras by placing our thumb on each of our fingers and imagining the sun, moon, earth, and universe. 

Today's affirmations:

I am powerful, like the sun.

I am gentle, like the moon.

I am calm, like the earth.

I am magic, like the universe.

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When we first created Best Day Yet Podcast, we designed it for kids to listen to in the car on their way to school. But this year a lot of kids will be learning at home. 

Since most kids need to move as much as possible, and virtual learning might include a lot of sitting down, we included guided movement with these affirmations.

The intention of this movement episode is to help you get centered and gather up positive energy for your big day of learning at home.

This episode includes positive affirmations, mindful breathing, and movement for kids and families to practice together.

Wooohooo! Season 2 is here with a brand new episode!!!All around the world we're seeing a lot of people wearing masks to keep themselves and others safe from Covid 19. On today's episode we get to float all the way to Nepal in GIANT BUBBLES and meet an animal that rocks a mask all day every day, and learn powerful affirmations that you can practice any time you wear a mask.

Today's affirmations:

My mask is a reminder to take deep breaths

and speak  loud and clear.

When I put my mask on I remember:

I am safe

I am seen

I am quiet but I am strong

like a red panda.

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Just a few more weeks until we release season 2 of Best Day Yet! Until then enjoy this dolphin-tastic episode from last January. What if there were positive words we could tell ourselves that would help it be easier to make new friends? Well it turns out there are! And on today's episode we learn them. To make it even more fun, we get to trade our legs in for tail fins and swim with an animal friend (Surprise—it's a dolphin!) who teaches us all about friendliness and how to be a good friend.

Today's affirmations:

• I am warm and bright
• I am compassionate
• I am a wonderful friend
• I am a magnet for friendship
• I treat everyone with kindness and respect
• Other kids really need a friend like me 
• 
  

*Positive Affirmations for kids

*Meditations for kids

*Mindfulness for kids

*Growth Mindset for kids

Originally recorded in November of 2019, this is one of the most popular episodes we've ever created.This is a mini episode designed for kids to listen to over and over any time they are feeling worried, scared, or nervous.Today's affirmations:

• I am calm.
• I am surrounded by love and protection.
• Good things are coming my way.

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