Headspace: Meditation and Mindfulness
The Headspace app teaches you how to breathe, meditate and live mindfully. It’s even been proven to improve focus. There are exercises on everything from managing anxiety and stress relief to breathing, happiness, calm and focus.
How it can help your child:
Rated: 3+
Available on: IOS and Android
Cost: Free. In-app purchases.
Family educational game app helps manage emotions
A series of family-based games designed to help kids practice understanding and communicating their feelings and developing skills to calm down in challenging situations. There’s a family check up to see how the family is tracking and further resources, tips and videos aimed at building resilience.
How can it help your child?
Rated: 4+
Available on: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Guided meditation app
Smiling Mind is a free mindfulness meditation app for young people to help combat stress, improve focus and increase resilience.
How can it help your child?
Rated: 4+
Available on: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Helps children understand their emotion using emojis
The Powerme app helps children to recognise their emotions and learn how to handle them better as they grow.
They can set up their own avatar and take part in special activities that allow them to learn coping strategies to cope with feelings that may be overwhelming to deal with.
How can it help your child?
Rated: +4
Available on: iOS
Cost: Free
App to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety
MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
How can it help your child?
Rated: +4
Available on: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Creates a happiness journal to increase positivity
This app allows kids to create a happiness journal that prompts them to write down three good things every day and track their increase in positivity. The interface is created like a game to it is engaging for young people to use. They can add entries all at once or as they happen and are rewarded by climbing up levels as they record their entries over consecutive days.
How can it help your child?
Rated: +4
Available on: iOS
Cost: Free
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