Helping Kids Find Their Calm: Podcast Recommendations

Helping Kids Find Their Calm: Podcast Recommendations

March 10, 2023

Curator

Jodi Murphy (she/her), producer of Dorktales Storytime Podcast

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We kids’ podcast creators care deeply about our young audiences and their mental health. We know that like adults, kids can experience overwhelming feelings from what’s happening in their personal lives and from trying to process the chaos of our world. This podcast playlist includes storytelling, news, and mindfulness podcast episodes with narratives and guidance to help kids recognize, understand, and learn how to self-regulate their big feelings.

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Bib Bad's Big Feelings

Dorktales Storytime Friends from the Folktale Forest are on an emotional roller coaster, especially the Big Bad wolf. He’s huffing and puffing towards an emotional blow-up. Thankfully a caring capybara, played by Chanel Tsang from the Peace Out Podcast, patiently helps them understand the big feelings they are feeling and gives them tools for self-regulating when they feel overwhelmed.

Peace Out PodcastH.A.L.T.Peace Out Podcast by Chanel Tsang is a treasure-trove of calming yoga and mindfulness practices to help kids with their social-emotional health. This episode takes a popular parenting strategy — to check if your child is Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired when noticing they are out of sorts — and turns it around so kids can use it to self-assess where they are at with their feelings.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland

Time Yin

In this episode, poor Power Dog finds himself in uncertain circumstances and becomes flooded with overwhelming feelings. Through the narrative, kids learn what “shutting down” and “emotional flooding” mean and that it’s okay to take a break, to not know what to do next, and to take a moment for your mind and heart to catch up.

The Ten NewsMental Health MattersHost Bethany Van Delft talks to kids about making your mental health a priority. She calls out Olympic gymnast Simon Biles, NBA star Kevin Love, and tennis champion Naomi Osaka who have opened up about their struggles with their mental health and what they’re doing about it. The message: we are all in this together!

Like You: Mindfulness for KidsMental Time TravelIn this episode, Noah Glenn teaches listeners how to time travel in their minds to remember that the things that are challenging or upsetting us in the present won’t always be that way. When overwhelming feelings happen, it might be difficult to imagine that things will ever get better — that’s the perfect time for some mental time travel.

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The Boar KnightAre you ready for family fun and music? Join Nathaniel the Boar Knight as he journeys across a fantasy world in search of adventure and friendship! A story suitable for all ages.

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🎤This week in Podcast The Newsletter: The Iditapod is the once-a-year, very special podcast that takes you right to the Iditarod race in Alaska, with daily updates on every push and pull, interviews with the racers, and adorable details about the dogs and their little booties. In the first episode of the seventh season, host Casey Grove and trail reporters Lex Treinen and Ben Matheson recap last year’s race, warm us up for the smallest field in race history this year, and bring us a Dog of the Day, a spunky little leader named Dusty. 

🐈Why were cats gods in ancient Egypt but Satan’s familiar by Europe’s Middle Ages? Why do serial killers and despots hate cats? And how the heck does all of this random cat stuff connect to us in the here and now? Join 6 Degrees of Cats podcast host and lifelong cat steward Amanda B. as she consults with a diversity of guest experts from across the world on these (among many) surprising questions in purr-suit of how — and why — cats have influenced our history and culture. Follow @6degreesofcats and subscribe now!🌍Africa has its first Ambies nomination for Best Documentary (Short Series). This story starts with a number: 70%. That's how many young people in South Africa are unemployed. They hustle and hope to find success. But how do you make it in a place like Alexandra in Johannesburg, a Black township sometimes referred to as Gomorrah? I Will Not Grow Old Here follows Mary-Ann Nobele who is twenty-three years old and determined to make it out of Alex.

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📚Each week, hosts Adam and Amber read self help books of all kinds, and then sit down to discuss each book in an authentic, open, and hilarious way in Checking-In: A Self Help Book Club podcast. Adam and Amber are able to maintain a genuine sense of humor and healthy amount of skepticism as they explore topics of trauma, mental health, addiction, grief, abuse, attachment styles, spirituality, relationships, sexuality, and more. Their honest takes on each book and topic are painted by real-life experiences with mental illness, self growth, and therapy. They are able to break down these often-difficult/sometimes-boring self help concepts to create hour-long weekly episodes with content that is humorous, informative, and easily digestible, to provide listeners with some welcomed comedic relief for a genre that’s often quite heavy.

SPOTLIGHT:

Grown

is a podcast about the in-between: the nebulous, the liminal, the just plain weird time between those awkward teenage years and full-on adulthood.

Co-hosts Aleeza Kazmi and Alfonso “Fonzo” Lacayo guide listeners through true stories that deal with the challenges and joys of growing up. Using their unique points of view, Aleeza and Fonzo will discuss first crushes, culture, identity, secrets, and more. 

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