I sat down with Lorraine Hobbs, founding director of the Youth, Family & School-based Programs at the University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness where she develops mindfulness-based curricula for parents, teens and children and has been a pioneer in the area of self-compassion for teens. Together, we explore how to notice the effects of stress on the kids in your life and offer them fun and useful tools for reducing it – tools that have also been shown to help children improve focus, self-control and academic performance, increase their ability to resolve conflict and improve their overall sense of wellbeing. (And they work for us grown-ups, too!)