LOVE NOTE
Getting the Best out of these Books and the Peace Pillow with Your Child
Quality Time Together, Gentle Activities for Imagination, Feelings, and Peaceful Connection
This book and the other products are supportive tools for parents, educators and caregivers that teaches about the power of thought and imagination.
This encourages self-love and healthy self-esteem, which naturally lead to compassion for ourselves and others — and ultimately to living a more peaceful life.
At the same time, it reminds us of the importance of truly listening to our children and taking the necessary steps to support them in facing life’s challenges and fulfilling their dreams.
In the following “Love Note,” written in the voice of the children, we share some of the things they need from us and the ways we can lovingly support them.
Inner peace creates outer peace.
May peace become our shared reality.
A Love Note to Parents, caregivers and educators
What I Need
💛 Fun
Take time to laugh, play, and share the wonders of life with me.
💛 Affection
Warm hugs nurture me and help make this world feel like a friendlier place.
💛 Acceptance
Appreciate me for the unique individual I am, with all my special gifts and talents.
💛 Respect
Treat me as someone valuable, and I will learn to respect and honour myself and others.
💛 Praise
Tell me the things you appreciate about me so I can begin to recognize how wonderful I truly am.
💛 Security
Give me loving boundaries that help me grow safely, feel secure, and overcome my fears.
💛 Honesty
Share your real feelings and admit your mistakes so I can learn what it means to be fully human.
💛 Awareness
Be aware of your inner self-talk. I can feel your thoughts and emotions, and they affect me even more than your words.
💛 Patience
Please be understanding when I make mistakes. I am trying my best, even when it may not seem that way.
💛 Forgiveness
Remind me that nobody is perfect, and that forgiveness feels far better than holding onto anger or resentment.
💛 Encouragement
Support me with positivity as I try new things, and I will have the courage to keep exploring.
💛 Openness
Listen to me with an open heart, and be willing to learn from me too.
💛 Love
When you love and care for me in all these ways, you give me one of life’s greatest gifts.
💛 Time Together with My Dream Pillow
Sharing time together with my Peace Pillow can give us:
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Quality time together
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A chance for me to tell you how I am truly feeling
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A safe space to share what I want and need
And a Few More Things...
💛 Be happy — when you are happy, I feel safe.
💛 Please seek professional support when we need it.
💛 Be willing to reveal, meet, and heal your own inner child, because you and I are playing the game of life together.
Share with me how you are feeling so I can learn the language of emotion.
Accept my emotions and help me recognize how emotions change and shift.
Activities We Can Do together with Our Peace Pillow
Creative Ideas and Drawings to Share with Your Children
💛 Draw your feelings and gently accept them.
💛 Draw the feelings you would like to create more of in your life.
💛 Draw and imagine what you truly want.
💛 Think about a difficult situation and draw the very best thing that could happen.
Then go to sleep imagining that loving possibility.
💛 Imagine what you might like to be when you grow up — and draw it.
💛 Draw yourself doing something you love.
💛 Draw your anger.
💛 Draw your rage.
💛 Draw the person you would like to become as you grow older.
💛 Draw or write what you want or need from your parent, caregiver, or teacher.
💛 Share your drawing together.
You may also wish to talk about it.
Parents or caregivers can answer by adding to the drawing or creating one of their own — sharing what they would like to give, offer, or understand in response.
💛 Draw a monster and then draw yourself becoming a friend to your fear.
💛 Let the monster make a friend and draw the gift it has for you.
💛 Draw yourself and your family as superheroes.
💛 Draw yourself as the weather.
💛 Draw your family surrounded by love.
💛 Draw your dreams.
💛 Draw your fears.
Then wash the pillow, and when it dries, draw your wishes.
💛 Draw or write ways you can be kind to others.
💛 Draw what a kind world looks like.
💛 Draw what you can do to help create a kinder and more peaceful world.
💛 Draw what peace feels and looks like to you — then fall asleep imagining a peaceful world.
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