For Kids: My New Friend, Anger

This fun and friendly meditation for kids helps them learn about the emotion of anger. This short practice helps children cultivate calmness when faced with frustration. Created just for kids to empower them by responding to anger with self-compassion and self-awareness.

Transcript

Close down your eyes and settle right in.

Our meditation story is about to begin.

With a deep breath in.

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And a deep breath out.

Can you stretch out your body and let any wiggles come out?

Now close down your eyes and take another deep breath in.

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As you start to use your imagination.

This is the story of my new friend anger.

One day a new emotion moved into my life.

All of my emotions have always gotten along with me and we've always been the best of friends.

But this one,

This one felt different and I didn't really like it.

Like I liked the others,

Happy and surprised.

Where did it come from?

Why is it here?

I wondered,

What do I do with anger?

At first,

I tried to ignore it and pretend that it wasn't there.

Oh,

It did not like that.

It kept following me around everywhere I would go.

I tried to hide it from other people.

I kept it locked inside and I told it it could never come out.

I told anger that I did not like it when it was around.

And when I tried to ignore it,

There it was,

Wanting more and more attention.

It grew bigger and scarier until it was so big it felt like almost everyone could see it.

And one day I had enough.

I turned to anger and I said,

Anger,

Why are you so mad?

And once I asked this question,

Anger started to get smaller and smaller.

And before I knew it,

Anger didn't seem so big and scary.

It told me all the reasons why it had been feeling irritated and annoyed.

And then,

Right before my very eyes,

Anger changed colors from red to blue.

And it turned right into sadness.

I had no clue.

I promised anger I would always be there,

To get quiet and to listen.

To protect it and to care for it.

To work with it and to play with it.

But most of all,

I promised anger I would never ignore it again.

After all,

The only thing anger ever really needed was a really good friend.

What do you think your friend anger has been trying to say?

Let me know in the comments below.

Reviews

I’m a therapist for 18 years and I’ve never heard anything like this - absolutely incredible- going to listen with my kids daily - I hope you have others!

What a nice meditation. If you are angry all the time it can release toxins that can be very harmful :) it is good not to be angry

Great lessons on listening to our emotions, especially anger. Thank you!

Full disclosure I am 60+ and I loved this meditation. Perhaps I am reparenting myself. I liked the background music too. Anger can feel scary. Thank you for offering this.