For caregivers:
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the present moment-and your life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Mindful Child, by Susan Kaiser Greenland
The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--and How You Can Change Them, by Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley
Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents), by Eline Snel
Articles for Caregivers:
The Mindful Revolution: Finding peace in a stressed-out, digitally dependent culture may just be a matter of thinking differently, Time, February 2014.
How Meditation Works by Liz Kulze, The Atlantic, June 27, 2013.
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction: What It Is, How It Helps, by Will Baum, Psychology Today, March 18, 2010.
Websites for Caregivers:
www.mindful.org
www.mindfulschools.org
For children (please preview before reading with your child to ensure the book is at the right developmental level for your child):
What Does It Mean To Be Present?, by Rana DiOrio
Silence, by Lemniscates
The Listening Walk, by Paul Showers
Charlotte and The Quiet Place, by Deborah Sosin
References:
www.mindfulschools.org
(2014, January 6). Meditation for Anxiety and Depression?. Retrieved from www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/meditation_for_anxiety_and_depression
Walton, A.G. (2015, February 9). 7 Ways Meditation Can Actually Change The Brain., Forbes. Retrieved from www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/02/09/7-ways-meditation-can-actually-change-the-brain/#57cb1e817023.