Mindful, Happy Kids

About Mindful, Happy Kids

Petitations (pet-centered meditations), interviews and stories for kids. Interviews with artists, authors, musicians, editors, illustrators teachers, and mindfullnes/meditation and yoga practitioners. It's not just for kids any more. Find the website at www.mindfulhappykids.com for links to the podcast and YouTube videos, pdf's of Dr. Paige's children's books on gratitude, compassion, mindfulness and yoga and examples of Petitations set to music.

Publisher

Elisabeth

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Apr 2020

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

101 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Educator-Author Christy Wopat on Talking About Grief and Rethinking Labels and the Expression of Emotions in School

   Dr. Elisabeth Page interviews educator and author Christy Wopat (with co-host Deb Johnston) on “Mindful Happy Kids” about her teaching background, writing journey, picture book, Always Ours, and middle grade novel, Overruled. Christy describes the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse Paid Teacher Residency Program addressing the special education teacher shortage through a yearlong residency with two mentors and a $30,000 stipend. She shares her memoir origins after the death of her premature tw...

2. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Author Tracy Badua on Filipino Folklore, Friendship, and Writing Middle Grade & YA

   Dr. Elisabeth Paige welcomes middle grade and YA author Tracy Badua to Mindful Happy Kids to discuss her contemporary and contemporary fantasy books that weave in Filipino folklore, humor, mystery, and heartfelt moments. Badua explains differences between middle grade and YA, her path from legal writing to fiction, and why Filipino American voices and folklore matter, including intergenerational dynamics, identity, and community. She discusses co-writing the baking mysteries The Cookie Crumbl...

3. 

   17 Aug 2026

   The Magic of Middle Grade: Kids' Author Diana Harmon Asher in Conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Paige

   Dr. Elisabeth Paige interviews middle grade author Diana Harmon Asher about her writing journey and books "Side Tracked," "Up Staged," and "Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz." Asher explains why she writes for ages 8–12 and recounts years of rejections before "Side Tracked" sold to Abrams, followed by her other novels. She discusses weaving Jewish culture and Yiddish into her work, drawing on her father’s role as a cantor for Evie’s story of grief and a mother dating, and adding a Japanese America...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

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Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81

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