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Focusing and calming games for children

mindfulness strategies and activities to help children relax, concentrate and take control
2012
Presents mindfulness strategies and activities to help children relax, concentrate, and take control of their emotions.

The worst day of my life ever!

my story about listening and following instructions (--or not!)
2011
Shows readers the steps to the fundamental social skills of listening and following instructions. When the hero, RJ, learns to use these skills the right way, he has the best day of his life.

I am peace

a book of mindfulness
A young girl shares ways she is mindful and how it helps promote peace in her life.

Soccer sloth

Lenni Rainleaf plays goalie for the Sloths, but she is easily distracted, especially when the game slows down (which it tends to do when sloths are playing)--however when her lack of focus costs the Sloths a game she resolves to do better against the New World Parrots, even though a group of soccer hooligans, the Toxic Macaws, are masters of distraction.

This morning Sam went to Mars

a book about paying attention
Thanks to an overactive imagination, Sam has trouble focusing in class and so his father takes him to see a special doctor. There, they are given Sam a variety of strategies for home and school that will help him learn to pay attention.

The overflowing brain

information overload and the limits of working memory
2009
Examines the limitations of human memory and mental capacities in the twenty-first-century technology driven society; and discusses how to find a balance between everyday demands and mental limitations of working human memory.

Wait

A picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you.

Chimpanzees for tea!

2016
A silly, fun version of the game "telephone" in which a grocery list committed to memory goes playfully awry.

Focus

use different ways of seeing the world for success and influence
2013
Details how two distinct approaches to pleasure and pain--promotion- and prevention-focused--offer insight into how to motivate and influence others, and describes how to both change focus and use focus to achieve specific results.

The way of mindful education

cultivating well-being in teachers and students
2014
A guide to using mindfulness in the classroom to help students concentrate, learn and thrive.

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