Mental Health Fitness Five Skills Every Child Can Build
Mental health is as important as physical health, and both get stronger when you do exercises that help you face challenges in life. Give kids a foundation for mental health fitness with these five skills.
A Foundation for Mental Health
For decades, we’ve understood that physical fitness doesn’t just happen — it takes skills, regular practice, and a supportive environment. The same is true for mental health. Developed by experts at the Child Mind Institute for three different age groups, these guides have been used by more than 1.8 million students, caregivers, and educators to build emotion regulation skills and resilience.
Whether your child is 5 or 15, struggling or thriving, they can learn these skills. And you can practice alongside them.
Explore the Five Skills
How to recognize and name emotions
Learn skills such as paced breathing for stressful situations
How thoughts, feelings, and behavior are related
Skills for coping with uncomfortable feelings
How to pay attention to the moment to improve self-awareness
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Bring the Five Skills Into the Classroom
The full educator package — implementation guides, activity sheets, and video resources for different age groups — is all in one place.
