Positive Penguins is an iPhone app designed to help children build resilience. The app offers a 5-minute guided meditation to help children relax and let go of their thoughts. It also provides a strategy for children to understand that an event or situation happened that created an emotion in them, and that emotion is not right or wrong, but rather information. By examining their thoughts or stories about situations, children can challenge themselves to problem-solve and behave in a positive way.

The app offers full sound and text, as well as the ability to record responses. Additionally, there is a game mode for some fun. This resilience strategy is based on the idea that negative thoughts or stories we tell ourselves are not wrong, but sometimes they are not true. Children need to learn to catch negative thinking that is stressful, challenge it, and change their thinking to be more optimistic and less anxious. This strategy is also great for adults.

The four positive penguins take children on an interactive journey to help them understand that feelings arise from their thinking. If they challenge their negative thoughts successfully, they may be able to see things in a more realistic and optimistic way. For more information and resources, visit Positive Penguins on Facebook or their website.