One of the many side effects of pollution and modern technology is the rise in the number of environmentally sensitive children. As we strive toward finding ways to protect and keep the environment clean and safe, the health of our world’s children should be at the top of our priority list. Contaminants are found everywhere in…
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Guided Relaxation: Visualizing the New Year Meditation
A new year brings a new start. It’s also the ideal time to use guided relaxation techniques to help your child set an intention for the New Year. These peaceful guided relaxation scripts are written by Mellisa Dormoy of ShambalaKids. Her meditation audios help children and teens relieve stress and anxiety, improve self-esteem, feel great (mind, body, and spirit) and…
Guided Meditation Script: Happiness Factory
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Give Your Kids an Academic Leg Up with Exercise
It’s no secret that many students in every grade level at schools across the country are struggling with their studies. But what if the answer for helping them blossom isn’t necessarily more time in the classroom or more teachers? To the contrary, could the answer be spending less time in the classroom and more time being outdoors…
Outdoor Activity: Backyard Bug Count
When it comes to kids and bugs, there’s a natural magnetic attraction. While a backyard bug count may give you the chills, your child will probably only be noticing the mesmerizing curling and uncurling of a pill bug, or the never ending charm of a lady bug. Want to take advantage of these simple thrills…
Healthy Microbiome for Kids: How to Boost Your Child’s Gut Health
When you boost your child’s gut health by supporting the microbiome, you’re setting him or her up for a lifetime of wellness – plus fewer colds, less severe stomach bugs, and many more benefits as science shows how a healthy microbiome is crucial to overall wellness. Here, you’ll find tips for helping to balance your…
Green Child Talks With Oak Meadow Homeschoolers: The Doughty Family
Like many parents, I never planned to homeschool my kids. But an out-of-state move showed us just how irreplaceable our former Montessori school (on 6 acres of land with horses, chickens, sheep, and an outstanding staff and group of families) was. After much trial and even more error, we decided to homeschool. I quickly discovered that doing the…
