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Kids Story Time: The Mysterious Mist

This is a story for kids offering insights into unhooking from unhelpful thinking, opening up to big feelings, unnecessary fears, and learning to choose when our intuition calls upon us. The content and story theme has been designed for kids around 5 to 9 years old. However, this material can be suitable for anyone interested. Please note that there are references to scary monster thoughts. Parents are advised to take a listen first if they are concerned about this. Ultimately, this story is to help you to help your little one be part of the positive change that’s going on in the world.

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Meet your Teacher

Reuben Lowe

Melbourne, Australia

Reuben Lowe founded an online organisation 'Mindful Creation', as well as the non-profit for young people called 'ACT on it'. Specialising in mindfulness-based therapies, he works at one of the largest health clinics in the Southern Hemisphere. He currently designs and standardizes the acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) programs throughout Australia for Healthscope. He is passionate about empowering others to be part of the change that is taking place in our world.

6 Days

677 students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Chapter 1 – The Little Voice & The Mist Around Their Heads

The story starts in your bedroom, with toys piled right up to the ceiling. There’s no room to play. Then you sense a little voice inside your tummy. You decide to go on an adventure with this new special friend. On your adventure you notice a group of five people with a thick layer of mist around their heads. One talking about that it’s bad to feel curious. Another talking about a monster in the mist and that the other island is scary. Why do they all look so scared?

Lesson 2

Chapter 2 – The Roar Of The Monster

You hear a big ROARR! Your friend Polly is terrified and runs away. The mist around her head looked just like the mist that was around the heads of the previous five people that you had seen before. Despite the roars coming from the mist, you choose to use your canoe to paddle out into and through the mist to get to the other forbidden island. Before you do, one of the white, fluffy clouds in the sky becomes big, grey and grumpy. What is going on?

Lesson 3

Chapter 3 – The Big, Grey, Grumpy Cloud

The big, grey, grumpy cloud wraps itself around your head and then you come face to face with the monster in the mist. The monster believes that nothing will save you. The monster continues to dominate you with its scary thoughts. Meanwhile both the little voice inside your tummy and the big, grey, grumpy cloud have a solution for you. What is the solution?

Lesson 4

Chapter 4 - Confronting The Monster & The Big, Grey, Grumpy Cloud

You decide to take control of your life. When you do, everything changes. The first thing to change is the big, grey, grumpy cloud that is wrapped around your head. This big, grey, grumpy cloud with ‘monster’ written upon it had changed because of a special technique that you use. Now that it’s not around your head, it seems that it’s trying desperately hard to talk to you about something. What on earth will the cloud say to you?

Lesson 5

Chapter 5 – A New World

You befriend the big, grey, grumpy cloud who takes your advice and uses your special technique. Then you gain insight into why the people on your island have mist around their heads. You make it through the mist and get to the other island. You find out what that huge roar sound is and where it comes from. When will you be ready to go back home to your island?

Lesson 6

Day 6 - Congratulations (And A Message For Parents)

Well done for finishing the story. How did you go? If you have any comments or maybe even questions about the characters in the story, then feel free to tap the 'Ask A Question' button after this audio clip and you can do leave a comment.

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This course includes 12 community questions and 12 audio replies from Reuben Lowe. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Andrea

September 22, 2025

“That was amazing” - my 7 year old

Elise

December 5, 2024

This story was really great and I would recommend it for a lot of parenting kids and I think it is a great learning adventure.

Marit

July 22, 2024

Loved it 💚😄🙏🌱 My 11 week old baby didnt quite understand it just yet, but will return when hes older. Great message!

Brett

December 9, 2023

Me and my son loved it, after the first couple chapters he was hooked. He said “ whoa this is a good story” as we were laying down for bed. He even put this to practice at school when a kid was being mean to him. He said “I remember how to take deep breaths from the mist story " .

Kara

September 5, 2023

Thank you for this story. It is my favorite story so far that I’ve listened to. This review is from my 7 year old son.

Louise

September 4, 2023

Thank you. This is such an important skill to teach children.

Jeannie

August 28, 2023

🙏

Rozzi

August 13, 2023

What an amazing story for my dear grandchildren. My granddaughter said that now when she is scared about things like monsters, she realises that it’s just a stream of words passing through her head. What a gift! The gift of choosing thoughts, instead of taking them all seriously 🧡🧡🧡

Karen

August 11, 2023

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