Bedtime Tools For Kids

Over the next seven days, your children will learn the different reasons they might have a hard time falling asleep and how to use meditation and mindfulness practices to relax their mind and body and help them fall asleep. Bedtime can be so challenging for children (and adults). We live in a busy, overstimulating world that doesn’t teach us the tools to calm our minds and bodies down to help us fall asleep, and be able to fall back asleep if we wake up. Bedtime might be the first time a kid is not stimulated the entire day. It can be really challenging to go from constant stimulation of sounds, lights, screens, smells, people, and things to do, to quiet. The meditations are designed to keep your child gently engaged in the relaxing practices to help them ease into sleep. You and your children are welcome to try this course in two different ways. Your child can learn the practices during the day and try them out at night, or your child can listen to this course as they fall asleep and follow along with the practice in bed. They can also do both: learn the practices during the day and then, follow along and practice together with me at bedtime. Days 6 and 7 are best for bedtime. These last two sessions are longer sessions where I combine a few practices your child has learned in days 1 to 5. Each session will end with a loving thoughts practice, which gently fades off to allow your child to fall into sleep or to remain asleep if they have already drifted off. This course is led by Abigail Wilber, a leader in mindfulness education for children and advocate of sleep. This course was created with kids aged 5 to 12 in mind, but it is suitable for anyone interested in bedtime meditations. This course is designed to support you and your children with tools to help your child relax their mind, body, and emotions to support falling asleep at bedtime.