Category: Kids

Easter, Education, Healthy Living, Kids, Parenting, Tips and Tricks

Zendoway Cubes: Relaxation and Stress Management Tools

Erin Sluka

These 14 soft and colorful cubes provide simple suggestions for kids and adults to nourish the mind and body throughout the day.   They also squeeze for stress management and release! 

Zendoway Cubes: Relaxation and Stress Management Tools

The themes of these cubes include:

  • Happy (Gold Cube)
  • Gratitude (Orange Cube)
  • Positivity (Light Blue Cube)
  • Affirmations (Red Cube)
  • Breathing (Blue Cube)
  • Coping Strategies (Purple Cube)
  • Feelings (White/Blue Cube)
  • Nourishment (Yellow Cube)
  • Play (Earth Pattern)
  • Principles (Green Cube)
  • Questions (Black Cube)
  • Yoga Poses White/Orange Cube)
  • Chakra (Multi-Color Cube)
  • Stressed Out (Light Green Cube)

These make excellent Teacher and Counselor gifts for your child’s school. Sometimes kids just need simple release. Like adults, kids can benefit from calm activities that just help them refocus and reorganize their thoughts.

With my son I always keep that in mind. At 10 years old he is very well adjusted and is an excellent friend and student. We always read before bed every night since he was an infant. He goes in and out of phases being an independent reader, but I mainly have kept reading before bed as a traditional me-time and a way to de-escalate at night.

I also give him days off! For sports season and school he gets a certain number of free passes ( 1 per semester at school and 1 per sport season). His free pass can be used at anytime he wants which means he gets to wake up and for no real reason say “not today”. He does not abuse it and has learned through the years to SAVE his free days when he looks ahead and realizes an event may happen where he wants or needs that day. Why? Because sometimes we just need to self care and to call in a day but not in ways that it becomes bad habits. I gave them to his step brothers when they were younger too and they remember it. Both older boys are excellent employees today and this ‘time off’ did not create bad habits for them but they learned to ‘slow down’ and ‘take a day’.

These Zendoway Cubes are excellent tools and every home and classroom should give them a try.

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Comment: I was sent sets of the Cubes for feature. All opinions are my own

Giveaways, Infant Toddler Products, Kids

Suzy Snooze is a Smart Night Light with Sleep Soother and Baby Monitor

Erin Sluka

Welcome to the Suzy Snooze Review and Giveaway

As a busy Mom I do not fall asleep easily. I suppose you can say I relate to a busy Baby in just simply having nights where you cannot drift off so easily. I downloaded a meditation sound app and I can put my sleep phones on and hit play and I am out in no time. The specific sounds and music really do help put my body and mind into sleep zone and I sleep better now. The same idea can help your baby sleep better also.

Babies and toddlers have been going to sleep to music mobiles and lullaby toys for decades and I realize for myself that not just any white noise will do. It is a pitch, volume and tone combination that when done right puts you to sleep fast. The Suzy Snooze Smart Night Light, Sleep Soother and Baby Monitor with Audio from BleepBleeps has that perfect fall-asleep-fast soothing audio for kids (and adults too). Even my 10 year old is out fast with his Suzy Snooze!

  • Audio Baby Monitor on your Smartphone: listen in live with high definition, secure audio
  • Gets your kids to sleep at bedtime: A baby sound machine with ambient sounds for sleep, lullabies for kids, and a noise machine – Suzy is the cutest sound machine baby shusher.
  • Keeps children asleep all night: low energy LED night lamp stays cool to the touch and the soft, orange LED night light can also play sleep sounds (like a white noise machine baby shusher) with running music all night.
  • Tells your toddler when it’s time to get up! in the morning Suzy’s LED wake up light gently switches off and she raises her magic hat. That means it’s ok for children to get out of bed too.
  • Sleep enducing sound and music sequences
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The Giveaway

1 lucky reader will win a Suzy Snooze of their own ($79.97 ARV). The Gleam giveaway is hosted by BleepBleeps. They will gather entries and contact winner. Giveaway ends on March 10, 2019. Open to USA ages 16+. Good luck!

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Comment: I was sent a Night Light at a deep discount for feature. All opinions are my own

Books Reviews, Children's Books, Education, Healthy Living, Kids

A Self-Help Kid’s Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger and Stress

Erin Sluka
A Self-Help Kid’s Coloring Book for Overcoming Anxiety, Anger and Stress

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm

When a tool is in the form of books and toys it makes teaching emotional skills and mindset strategies much easier with kids. In a coloring book such as this you get fun lessons filled with simple strategies to self-soothe, manage anger, overcome anxiety and improve emotional intelligence.

Angry Octopus Color Me Happy, Color Me Calm is more than a simple coloring book. The pages are exercises to help parents, teachers, or counselors guide children ages 4-11 to manage BIG feelings.

Sometimes putting your feelings in writing or drawings helps us feel better. This is much better than tantrums, meltdowns, or outbursts. There are 76 pages and more below:

  • Dozens of coloring pages designed for children.
  • Underwater Scenes, Garden Designs, Angry Octopus, and Friends, and a Mandala.
  • Each coloring page is designed to help relax, motivate, and introduce an anger or stress management technique in a playful manner.
  • The variety of pages increases emotional intelligence while offering something for every skill level.
  • Each coloring page is on a separate sheet with light-hearted text on the opposite page.
  • User-friendly for children, parents, classrooms, homeschoolers, and private practice.
  • Perfect add on to the Stress Free Kids Curriculum and Lesson Plans.
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Comment: I was sent a copy of the book for review. All opinions are my own.