142. 60 Seconds to a Calmer Kid (No Screen Required) | Kira Willey
4/20/202631 min
In this episode you'll hear from Kira Willey, award-winning children's music artist and mindfulness expert who has spent nearly 20 years helping kids feel calm, confident, and connected. Her new book, The Joyful Child, gives parents 75+ one-minute songs and rhythm games that help kids regulate, focus, and release anxiety.
We talk all about how to integrate movement and age appropriate play to spark motivation and move our kids to action.
This is such a fun episode and I'm excited to introduce Kira to you.
You can find Kira on Instagram instagram.com/kirawilley
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First 90 secondsBecky Jennings· Host0:00
Welcome to Response-Able Parenting, the podcast that shows you how to parent in alignment to your emotions, needs, and goals versus your programming, bad advice, and let's face it, outdated strategies that just don't work. You'll get in-the-trenches support on nervous system and emotional regulation, critical mindset shifts, stronger communication strategies, and more. In this podcast, you'll gain transformational tools that take you from reacting to every frustration to responding with clarity, regulation, and finally setting the example you desire for your kids. I'm Becky Jennings, your new parenting coach, and this is the Response-Able Parenting podcast. Let's get into it. After this episode, you are going to feel so much calmer. This is a beautiful conversation with Kiera Willey, who is an award-winning children's music artist, author, and mindfulness expert who has spent the last 20 years helping children feel calm, confident, and connected. She has seven children's albums that have won multiple Parents' Choice Gold Awards, ASCAP's Children's Songwriting Awards. She has several books. Her book Breathe Like a Bear became an international bestseller, published in 17 languages, followed by Peaceful Like a Panda, and her newest book, which we'll be talking about on this episode, is The Joyful Child, and it gives parents playful ways to bring more calm and connection to everyday life. Listening to Kiera will automatically make you calmer, but you will learn some incredible strategies to really support yourself and