WeeWonna Talk: Recent Episodes
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Imagine a podcast just for kids. There’s so much grown-up stuff out there, but kids wonna talk too, and we believe in encouraging open dialogue and creative learning from a young age!
Kids: Sometimes, it’s not so easy to talk about things or understand big topics, we know. That’s why we’re here, to explore. And don’t worry, we will always have plenty of fun and surprises.
Parents/caregivers: We know how valuable (and daunting) opening up conversation with your kiddos can be. Especially around the “bigger” topics in life. If you’re looking for some support, you’re in the right place.
This episode offers a simple practice and craft activity (making a paper chain) for children to recall important lessons and insights about loving-kindness. It’s a wonderful way to collect all the gems we discovered this season.
Join Deborah, Amaya and Beezly as they reminisce about the highlights of Season 2 and talk about the many things they learned together. All about loving-kindness in our thoughts, words, and actions.
This episode helps children to :
- Remember important lessons about loving-kindness
- Cultivate the ability to reflect and look back in order to integrate and build knowledge
- Feel inspired to enact and practice kindness in their daily lives
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeeWooHeartHappyKids
https://www.instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Loving-kindness starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
This episode offers a simple, guided meditation for children. This meditation helps children connect to their heart and their capacity to share peace and love with themselves, others, and the world around them.
It is a short and meaningful practice guided by our ten-year old podcast star Amaya Goodrich. Kids love to be guided by other kids, so offering this approach helps them to feel more engaged and inspired.
This episode helps children to :
- Learn a simple form of meditation that is created just for them
- Connect to their heart and natural inclination to love and care for others and the world
- Feel empowered and less helpless in an often challenging world
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
WeeMeditate : Loving Kindness Meditation for Kids
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeeWooHeartHappyKids
https://www.instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Loving-kindness starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
This episode is all about compassion and helps children imagine compassionate responses to various situations in a fun and imaginative way — through a train that only moves when you give a compassionate reply. Join Dr. Deborah Quibell, Amaya and Beezly on this special journey.
Throughout the episode, Beezly and Amaya are given three real-life situations and asked to imagine how they can respond compassionately to each one. Only when they give a reply, the train gets moving again. Compassion helps all of us to move forward . . .towards a world of kindness, care, and courage.
This episode helps children to :
- Understand what compassion means
- Imagine a compassionate response to specific situations
- Comprehend that compassion has two parts—first, to imagine how the person may be feeling and second, to react in a kind and helpful way.
- Cultivate empathy to others around them
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeeWooHeartHappyKids
https://www.instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Compassion starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
It's important for children to understand that kindness includes respecting the wishes and boundaries of others. Join Dr. Deborah Quibell, Amaya and Beezly as they dive deeply into the meaning of respect and how it connects to being kind through an honest and meaningful dialogue. Deborah also provides some fun reflections or journaling ideas to make the lessons more memorable for children.
Through this episode, children will have a deeper understanding of what respect means and how to practice it. We hope to broaden their definition of kindness to include considering the feelings and wishes of others, and give them a simple strategy to follow when they accidentally upset someone else or disrespect them without knowing.
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeeWooHeartHappyKids
https://www.instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Kindness starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here :
https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
This week we have a special guest! WeeWoo’s very own composer and musical director—Adam Hoffman. Adam will join Dr. Deborah Quibell, Amaya and Beezly and teach us all an original and special song all about loving-kindness—in our thoughts, words, and actions.
In this episode, we help children, through music, discover the power and importance of practicing kindness. Your kids will learn a beautiful and uplifting song, right along with us. It’s a fun and creative tool that inspires children to practice love and kindness in everything they think, say, and do.
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeeWooHeartHappyKids
https://www.instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Kindness starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
Join Dr. Deborah Quibell, Amaya and Beezly for a special story time. This creative story will guide children on a special journey to learn about the power of their words—how using kind words or unkind words affects both our internal and external environments.
In this episode, we cover several key topics including kindness, language awareness in kids, and the importance of communicating kindly and choosing our words carefully. Children will also begin to understand that kind words have the power to make us feel better and to make the world a more beautiful place.
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://youtube.com/c/weewoohearthappykids
https://weareweewoo.com/
Kindness starts and is encouraged at home. We know it’s not easy to raise heart-happy kids in today’s world. Our content is here as a tool to support busy parents AND we also have a special program for parents and caregivers at WeeWoo designed to give you easy-to-apply strategies at home to help your kids with emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
We open season 2 of the WeeWonna Talk podcast with an episode about being loving and kind in our thoughts. All while writing a fun poem, together!
Dr. Deborah Quibell, 10-year old Amaya, and our special friend Beezly talk about the power of our thoughts to affect our mood and state of well-being. Together, they come up with creative solutions to think more positively and to develop a strategy (that all kids can apply!) when they think not-so-good thoughts about themselves, others, or the world around them.
In this episode, we cover several key topics including: the power of positive thinking for kids, the impact that our thoughts can have on our mood and mental health, and easy-to-apply strategies to encourage kids to create uplifting and kind thoughts about themselves and others.
// RESOURCES Mentioned in this Episode:
https://youtube.com/channel/weewoohearthappykids
https://weareweewoo.com/
Parents are a key part of the WeeWoo world and play an instrumental part in encouraging heart-happy kids at home. We created our parent program to give you insights and easy-to-use strategies that help to create more peace and harmony in your home and family. You can work through it on your own time and at your own pace.
Explore the WeeWoo@Home premier parent program here : https://weareweewoo.com/weewoo-at-home/
This is a special edition podcast episode. We wanted to offer you something during this, maybe you're hearing on TV, from teachers, or friends, about the ware in Ukraine. War is a terrible thing but it's important to remember that there are things we can do to help.
And it's a really good thing to ask your parents if you have any questions and to talk openly together. There are also things you can do to help yourself and those around you. One of those things is meditation.
In this episode, our very own star, Amaya, will guide a special candlelight meditation. It's a wonderful practice to contact the light behold within so that we can become a channel of light and love for others. So find a comfortable and quiet place and be sure you have a candle.
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This is a special edition podcast. All of our episodes are really for your children. But we wanted to offer something to you as parents and caregivers during this difficult time.
We know it’s not easy to parent in today's world. We are enduring many years of a pandemic and are now facing the uncertainty of war in Ukraine. We know our children have a lot of questions, a lot of uncertainties, a lot of doubts, and we're here to help you.
We have a special edition of this podcast also for children, a candlelight meditation, guided by our wonderful nine-year-old Amaya. So just be sure to share that when the time feels right.
We want to give you tools and practices that can help you and your children during this time. We just want to encourage you to have an open dialogue within your family about current events. There are many things, especially with war, which children may be curious about and if we don't explain it to them, they may begin explaining it to themselves. We want to be there to help and guide them through this.
This episode is just an offering for you. We wanted to offer a candlelight meditation, this time for adults. So, make sure you have a candlelit in front of you and about 10 minutes of undisturbed time. We know that this is bordering on asking for a miracle. But let's see if we can make it happen. This is a practice that we want to talk about. So, when you're ready, we can begin.
Reach out to us on Instagram: instagram.com/weareweewoo/
Send us an email: hello@weareweewoo.com
Visit our website: weareweewoo.com/
In this episode, we are going to spend time reflecting and reviewing what we learned over the past 6 episodes in season 1, as a way to summarize and remember all the fun times we had and all of the learning that we did.
Season 1 was all about new beginnings. Our stars of the podcast Amaya and Beezly share their memories and what they learned doing season 1.
We encourage you to also reflect on what you learned during our new beginnings season. We’d love to hear from you, feel free to share with us on Instagram or email us.
Questions to Reflect on:
What was your favorite episode?
What is one thing you learned from season 1 of the WeeWonna Talk podcast?
What did you learn about yourself?
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Send us an email: hello@weareweewoo.com
Download the journal: weareweewoo.com/review/
Visit our website: weareweewoo.com/
In today’s episode, we are going to do a sweet and simple rain meditation that helps children to feel more clear and relaxed (in their mind, heart, and body) before starting something new. This meditation, you can come back to and listen anytime when you feel stressed or overwhelmed.
If this is your first time meditating, don’t worry, there is always a first time for everything. Meditation is a practice for everyone–it helps us to feel more calm, connected, and centered. Find a comfortable and quiet place to sit for a couple of minutes…this may be a special corner that you have or you create to come back to each time you want to meditate.
We help kids practice mediation in this episode, to feel connected and calm, and to know it’s a practice they can come back to, again and again whenever needed.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast/
To download the journal: weareweewoo.com/rain/
Today we have a special story, all about beauty. Sometimes when we start something new or we meet new people, we worry a little bit about what other people will think of us. So in this story, we take a journey through the forest of inner beauty, where we learn what real beauty is, and hint . . . it has nothing to do with the way that you look.
The forest of beauty reminds us of many things: that beauty comes from inside, from our heart; noticing what makes someone different and unique is noticing their beauty; when someone has a lovely smile and brightness in their eyes, that is their inner beauty coming out, and we don’t always have to smile to be beautiful…it’s important to remember that too.
We help kids learn in this episode, that we can be beautiful even if we are sad or upset as long as we are kind to ourselves and stay connected to our heart . . . that is what matters.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast/
To download the journal: weareweewoo.com/beauty/
Today’s episode is all about our good qualities and how to discover them and remembering that we have a lot of good qualities within ourselves. We will do a really special activity called the Inner Quality Quiz...it’s not your typical school type of quiz, but a fun game show type of quiz! This special activity helps us discover the good qualities we already have within ourselves. In this episode, we help kids identify the good qualities they already hold, which can lead to a new and deeper sense of self-confidence.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast
To download the journal: weareweewoo.com/quiz
We have a special guest with us for this episode, WeeWoo's very own musician. In this episode, we talk about different strategies to help ease the feeling of being scared or nervous before starting something new. It's normal for children to feel scared, anxious, or nervous around new beginnings. Even as adults, we often struggle emotionally at the start of a new project or activity.
We want kids to know that (1) feeling scared is normal (2) they are not alone, everyone feels scared sometimes during new beginnings, and (3) there are things that they can do to help themselves feel better. We want to make this easier for them (for us all), so we wrote a special song to sing when feeling scared. The melody and lyrics of this song are comforting and reassuring, and serve as a tool to assist children in self-regulation.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast
To download the journal & song: weareweewoo.com/sing
It’s storytime today . . . Amaya and Beezly share a story all about special new beginnings, how to be strong, face fears, be brave, cry, and learn from mistakes. This story helps to show kids how to set intentions (during any new beginning) and learn to appreciate their mistakes, rather than feel ashamed or upset when they mess up.
In this episode, we help kids see that learning from mistakes and errors is an essential part of childhood development. We want children to understand there is a positive side to getting things wrong and that our mistakes can be our teachers. We all make mistakes, and when we do, there is a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast
To download the journal: weareweewoo.com/begin
We see reflection as an essential skill to teach children. Self-reflection helps kids to pause, to understand their achievements, what they enjoy, what they value, and creates a willingness to learn from their mistakes.
In this episode, we explore The Inner Treasure Hunt exercise and give you (and your kids) an example of reflection. This is a simple and creative technique to get your kids reflecting before starting the New Year.
WeeWonna Talk Podcast: weareweewoo.com/podcast
To download the journal: weareweewoo.com/treasure
Imagine a podcast just for kids. There’s so much grown-up stuff out there, but kids wonna talk too, and we believe in encouraging open dialogue and creative learning from a young age!
Kids: We know that sometimes it’s not so easy to talk about things or understand big topics. That’s why we’re here, to explore. And don’t worry, we will always have plenty of fun and surprises.
Parents/caregivers: We know how valuable (and daunting) starting a conversation with your kiddos can be. Especially around the “bigger” topics in life. If you’re looking for some support, you’re in the right place.