When you read a guided meditation for happiness aloud to your child, you can help him get in touch with feelings of contentment and joy. These peaceful guided meditation scripts are written especially for Green Child readers by Mellisa Dormoy of ShambalaKids. Her meditation audios help kids and teens relieve anxiety, build self-esteem, and develop…
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Worldschooling: Why Education is too Important to leave to Schools
Those of us who are interested in more natural ways of parenting often also question traditional schooling methods. This is why, in recent years, alternative education philosophies have become so popular. Worldschooling is a life style that allows children to learn from the world around them and usually involves travel. Like our family, a growing…
11 Homeschooling Tips for Parents of Kids with Special Needs
As a parent of a child with special needs, you are already well aware of how difficult it is for your child to get the attention he or she needs in a classroom full of students. Then, when you factor in concerns for your child’s overall well-being and the modern-day issues of bullying, it makes…
Gentle Parenting: How to Raise a Resilient Child
Being resilient means being able to handle things that don’t work out ideally and having the ability to find creative solutions to problems. When you raise a resilient child, she’ll be better equipped to bounce back from emotional hurts and cope with failure. In short, being resilient is about surviving life’s adversities. How does this…
Childhood Anxiety: Diagnosis & Natural Treatment of Anxiety in Children
Childhood should be a time of happiness and laughter. Unfortunately, we live in a world where even young children experience incapacitating fears that rob them of joy and playfulness. Childhood anxiety is not just being a little bit nervous on the first day of school. It is extreme fear and constant worries even about minor…
Guided Meditation for Kids – Free Guided Relaxation Imagery Scripts
Our Guided Meditation for Kids Scripts are extremely popular among our readers. They’ve been part of each issue of our digital magazine since the early days. You’ll also find all of our guided meditation scripts for kids on our website over the years These meditation scripts and audios help children and teens relieve stress and anxiety, improve…
Positive Parenting and Building Secure Attachment with Your Child
Want to be a great parent? Want to raise a happy, healthy, well-behaved kid? Want to live in a home where discipline becomes unnecessary? The secret to this happy scenario is positive parenting. Building a great relationship with your child through secure attachment is possible—without a ton of struggle. “What do you mean? Of course…
Green Child Talks With Oak Meadow Homeschoolers: The Kluver Family
One of the best parts of homeschooling is the fact that your child can have a tailor-made learning experience that can be altogether lacking in a public school setting. Whether a child needs to be better challenged, would benefit from a non-traditional setting, or finds classwork or the daily routine to be a struggle, homeschooling…
The Summer 2018 Issue of Green Child Magazine
If you live for the whimsical, warm days of summer, you’ll love our new issue! In our Summer 2018 issue, you’ll find healthy recipes, gentle parenting advice, tips for maintaining your holistic health routines while you travel, fun ideas for getting your family outside to enjoy nature, plus our 8th annual Eco Baby Gear Guide….
How to Create a Wildlife Garden
National Wildlife Federation resident naturalist, David Mizejewski, and his pal, Ranger Rick raccoon, believe that one of the best things a parent can cultivate this Spring is a new wildlife gardener. Today, they’re sharing their top kid-friendly tips for making your own wildlife garden. If you’re looking for fun ideas for celebrating Earth Day with…
Creating a Healthy Sleep Environment for Your School Age Child
School age kids function best when they get adequate rest. Creating a healthy sleep environment can help your child fall asleep more quickly and get better rest throughout the night. We all know that sleep tends to be a huge deal when our children are babies. It’s understandable, though. Sleep is such an important part…
Fun Outdoor Winter Activities for the Whole Family
Editor’s note: We’re delighted to welcome back Naturalist David Mizejewski from the National Wildlife Federation and Ranger Rick. Today, he’s sharing outdoor winter activities for the family. If you have young animal lovers, be sure to check out his previous article on observing wildlife safely. It’s no secret that today’s kids are staying indoors more as…
Music to Their Ears: Music Therapy for Children
You know the feeling you get when you listen to one of your favorite songs? Your mood lifts, your body relaxes, and you easily recall happy memories. When you think of it this way, the idea of music therapy makes perfect sense. It turns out, music can do much more for your health – especially when it…
7 Mindful Exercises to Help Tweens Sleep
“If you can cultivate wholesome, mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.” ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying Children who maintain a regular pattern of quality sleep are generally better able to cope with life’s challenges. They…
Green Child Talks with Torie Griffin, Founder of Rising Moon Tribe
When an older friend came over the day she started her period, ten-year-old Torie Griffin decided it was something to celebrate. She began talking with her family about rituals honoring womanhood, and Rising Moon Tribe was born. We’re thrilled to talk with Torie in her premiere interview about the company she created, what it’s like…
Ignore vs. Intervene: Allowing Your Child to Experience Natural Consequences
In the realm of gentle discipline, allowing your child to experience natural consequences can be an effective strategy for shaping behavior and teaching cause and effect. Natural vs. logical consequences for kids Natural consequences and logical consequences are very similar. A natural consequence is the natural or inevitable result of a person’s action. Your child…
The Fall 2017 Issue of Green Child Magazine
If you’re looking forward to all the family fun autumn brings, you’ll love our Fall issue! Filled with ways to enjoy this vibrant time of year, we’ve got your seasonal activities covered sustainably. One of our favorite annual features – the Back to School Lunch & Gear Guide will help you get back into the…
Teach Your Kids How to Save Energy with a Simple Checklist
Energy conservation should be a life skill you teach your kids, just like making their beds in the morning or bringing their plate to the sink after a meal. Here’s how to create a super simple energy checklist to get the whole family on board with saving resources and money. Life is full of teachable…
Guided Relaxation: The Thankful Turtle
This guided meditation is all about gratitude. Read this script in a relaxed voice, with joyful emphasis when needed. The more you use these scripts, the more easily your child will be able to relax and concentrate. These peaceful guided relaxation scripts are written by Mellisa Dormoy of ShambalaKids. Her guided relaxation audios help children…
Stargazing with Kids
Stargazing with kids is a fun way to enjoy the night sky, plus it may encourage their love for science. Orion. Andromeda. Pegasus. Ursa Minor. The night sky is full of stories, adventures, and curiosities. Not only is gazing into the sky one of many ways to encourage your child’s natural love of learning, it’s…
5 Solar Eclipse Activities for Kids
If you haven’t heard, a total eclipse will take place on August 21st. And it’s kind of a big deal. There have been lunar eclipses in America throughout the last century, but the last eclipse to cross America from coast to coast was back in 1918. That’s just shy of a hundred years! If there’s…
8 Awesome Facts About Renewable Energy
Green energy is a simple concept. It’s using renewable energy sources like wind, solar, water, or geothermal to generate electricity instead of traditional sources. Some of the most beneficial facts about renewable energy are that it produces fewer pollutants, runs cheaper, and can also create jobs. The only downside of green energy is that it…
The Backyard Biologist
Help your kids sharpen their science skills by encouraging them to go outside and do what they do naturally. It’s an age-old parenting conundrum that takes center stage when summer rolls around each year: How do you keep your kids both educated and entertained? Here’s an inexpensive and easy idea: Head outside with your children…
How Healthy Gut Bacteria Can Help Prevent Asthma and Allergies
More and more research is showing a very strong link between the “good bacteria” that live in your child’s gut and the development of allergies and asthma. So, what is the research on gut bacteria showing? “Good” gut bacteria play a key role not only in developing a healthy immune system in infants, but also…
