Meditating is the new Storytime
Meditating with my kids before bed has transformed "story time".
I joke with my friends and family that since moving to California (8 years ago, from NYC), I've become "Full NorCal." This includes: eating an organic, paleo, kale / kombucha-infused diet, driving an electric car (hey I'm saving the planet!), owning a few crystals, and relying on a meditation app to help relax and get to sleep. I'm Full NorCal and proud!
Before I go on too much of a tangent, let's hone in on Calm: the beautifully designed and curated meditation app that I've been listening to (with my kids) before bed each night. Calm serves up different types of meditations, varying in lengths, topics, guided vs nonguided. Being the ADD, short-attention-spanned pseudo-millenial that I am, I rely on the short and guided ones when it's just me listening. They even have ones you can listen to at work (which I have done quite a few times).
The meditations that are mostly frequented in my household, however, are the ones geared towards Kids. No other meditation app out there has such a robust library geared towards children. It's pretty impressive. You can select the age range (which starts at 5-7). They mask some of the meditations as bedtime stories read out loud, by folks with extremely soothing and soft voices. My kids fall asleep within two minutes EACH TIME. And they usually stay asleep too.
