A NEW quiz for you and your kids
Hello friends!
You may have read my previous blogs on the feelings habit animals. Learning about feelings habits and taking the fun feelings habit animal quiz is an excellent first step for helping kids (and grown-ups) be mindful of their feelings’ tendencies and recognize that others also sometimes think and feel like them.
Being mindful of our tendency to explode with feelings, hide feelings, suppress feelings, or feel ashamed of feelings is in and of itself a resilience habit. In my Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Workbooks for Kids and my parent-child self-compassion class, I use five resilience animals to help kids and grown-ups grow mindfulness and self-compassion. These are the same five animals that I teach parents to use in my Resilience Habits for Parents class. (Note: there are still open spots in my January Parent-Child Self-Compassion and my Resilience Habits for Parents classes.)
In volume 2 of the Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids, kids are encouraged to continue to practice and deepen the 5 resilience habits they learned in volume 1, and they are offered the Resilience Animal Quiz as a way to reflect and consider which of the 5 resilience habits they would like to practice.
The resilience animal quiz has the same six questions as the feelings habit animal quiz. Only this time, the responses are choices that exemplify the 5 resilience habits. When things go wrong, would you like to…
- Observe like Spots the giraffe?
- Remind yourself you’re not alone like Buddy the dog?
- Is kindness your super power like Snuggles the bunny?
- Do you look for the good like Sunny?
- Or would you take action like Doodles the dolphin?
Discover which of the five Resilience Animals from the Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Workbook for Kids is your best match by taking the Resilience Animal Quiz! (It’s fun for adults, too!)
Kids who are familiar with the resilience animals from my parent-child class or volume 1 of my workbook enjoy the Resilience Quiz, and they report that it really makes them think about how to apply the resilience animal skills in real life (of course the ultimate goal!).
In January, in addition to teaching a Resilience Habits for Parents course, I’ll also be starting a community for caregivers of children. You can join my community to learn how to implement the ideas and practices from the Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Workbooks for Kids in your own life and also how to best support kids in growing these same skills. If you’d like to be on the waiting / interest list for my community (dubbed “Jamie Lynn’s Community”) reply to this email to let me know.
Milwaukee locals can also join me in January for an in-person author visit, parent-child workshops (through the Whitefish Bay Rec Department), and an 8-week Self-Compassion for Shame course. And everyone is invited to join me for my live-online classes and workshops, including an Intro to Teaching Self-Compassion to Children Workshop offered in partnership with Kristin Neff’s community (free for everyone!).
I hope you enjoyed the Resilience Animal Quiz (feel free to comment with your resilience animal)! My predominant resilience animal is Snuggles the bunny (kindness). But I’m also a big fan of Buddy (remembering I’m not alone) and Sunny (noticing goodness).
I am grateful to be on team self-compassion with you.
With light, love, and hope,
Jamie Lynn