Has anyone ever heard of Mind Ninja?

[waddlemyway]

Just wondering if anyone has any experience/can give me a review of Mind Ninja by Life Lessons Global? It keeps coming up in my various ad feeds and I was thinking it might be useful for DD1 but I can't seem to find any independent reviews, other than the fact it does seem to be credited by various news outlets in Australia and the US. It's one of those websites that says it's 50% off for a limited time only but I've been seeing it for ages now, which makes me hesitant. But she is also a qualified teacher and psychologist.
So has anyone tried it and what were your experiences?

https://mindninja.lifelessonsglobal.com

@waddlemyway This keeps popping up on my Facebook, and I came here looking for reviews. Did you try it out?

@AnneTJB I just bought it just now (after an utter meltdown by DD7 this morning). I’ll report back in a week or two 😉

@waddlemyway I know it hasn’t been a week but any thoughts so far? I’m also looking at purchasing for my eight year old and about it hit the button... thanks 😊

I'm also thinking of purchasing this for a 12 year old. Would really like to hear thoughts from anyone who has already tried it with their child...

I wasn’t impressed. The modules are very short and I feel like they only skimmed the surface and were quite superficial. It was more about building kids self esteem and helping them with general worries at school. Maybe better for kids who don’t have anxiety but might worry that they did poorly in a test? My daughter has quite bad anxiety (she worries about everything) and it didn’t help her at all.

Hi there,

Just come across this mind ninja as well and wondered if, since this original post a few months ago, anyone had any further experience of it? Considering it for my little girl who seems to get herself upset dwelling on past events and get caught up in negative thought patterns quite a lot. Thanks in advance for any input anyone has 😊

I purchased it for my daughter and other than a quick look at it when we first got it we haven’t used it since. I can’t really remember why but we didn’t find it useful. The modules were quite short and vague and didn’t help her. My daughter was the opposite though, she worried and fixated on things that might happen in the future rather than the past. We did get a couple of books which seemed to help her immensely!

Ditto what @PoseyKEB said. Purchased it. Got my head around it, which was not easy, and tried to work through the first section with DD, age 7. She decided it was too much like school and that was that, zero interest in looking at it with me.
I came to the conclusion it is a great tool if you are a teacher and/or for teaching in a school environment. But I as a parent did not really feel that it gave me the tools to work through it with DD. It presumed I could formulate explanations better than I can (which I can’t, which was the whole point of buying it in the first place). If was too hard for me as a parent, so DD wasn’t convinced.
They also have an app that I tried to get access to and for some reason it didn’t work and after a few emails back and forth I just couldn’t be arsed chasing it any more.
Oh and the rather intense Australian accents on the videos were a bit difficult for DD to understand (and a bit in your face for me, if I’m going to be honest)! Not sure how much they would have cropped up, but in the first chapter that we didn’t get past there were rather a few of them.
in short:

• good for teachers, childcare professionals, social workers, etc.
• bit redundant for parents.

If anyone else has found a good alternative (perhaps with a slightly more British/European dynamic), I’d be happy to hear.

Think ninja is an nhs accredited app- some local authorities have free access. It is aimed slightly older than 7, but has some useful tools.

Popped up on my fb too and I was going to buy it for DS.

Following with interest!

What books did you get that helped?

@PoseyKEB may I ask what books were helpful please?

She read these two. The outsmarting worry book definitely helped her more but she’s 8. If your child is younger the other one might be better x

@PoseyKEB thank you. She is 12 so the older one is probably best. Thank you x

Thanks. This has been helpful to read. Think I'll stick with story books. Another one I've found helpful is "the huge bag of worries" by Virginia Ironside. Also looking for any stories that would help my 5 yo boy deal with his anger. He is never violent but yells a lot and keeps asking me why he is so angry all the time... I don't have an answer other than to try to help him to relax and encouraging him that the anger will pass.

Ruby’s Worry by Tom Percival is a nice one for younger kids.

We were after Mind Ninja not so much for anxiety but for dealing with short, sharp emotional outbursts, high and low.

If anyone has any good literature on helping 7-8 year-old girls deal with strong emotions of all sorts, I’d love to hear from you.

Likewise if you have any good reference material on ADD in girls and (late diagnosis) in women. It now seems that DD1 and I (and I suspect my Dad too) might have ADD and these outbursts are related to that. 😔 We’re just at the beginning of figuring it all out though, we may have a long, slow process ahead.

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to send this to you to see if it resonates with you and your daughter. It's explains why emotions are felt so intensely in people who are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Hope this is informative:

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24099-rejection-sensitive-dysphoria-rsd#:~:text=Rejection%20sensitive%20dysphoria%20(RSD)%20is,to%20differences%20in%20brain%20structure.

Im new on this platform, and just looking through some of the threads and I have recently seen a product called Little Sunflower. Id assume its littlesunflower.co.uk which may be worth looking at for anyone with children between 6 and 11. The lady who developed it is lovely and has a really sing song soft Irish voice.

@NicolaAnne Did you try littlesunflower.co.uk? Has anyone else tried it? I am looking for a good resource (in addition to the great book suggestions). Thanks!

Yes, and I believe that this product is being used by NHS employees and that it won a massive award last week too. Its an online programme with lots of relatable characters that each have their own worries, and anxieties and how they over come them for them selves and also learn to see them and understand them in others. The online stuff also is backed up with books and other things that arrive via the post at regular intervals. its very sweet and the children love it, especially when they get mail as well! Can't recommend it enough. The journal arrived about a week after sign up I think.

I know you posted this a while back but since this thread has been resurrected I thought I'd add this really helpful suggestion in case it helps anyone else who finds this thread, it's called 2468 this is how we regulate, and it's play therapy activities you can do with your child at home: https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-How-Regulate-Activities-Mindfulness/dp/1683731735/
I keep it by my armchair for when we need it, I've read it through and it's really good for actual activities you can do to help with emotional regulation. Some activities suit various specific ages better than others but I'd say it's got things aimed at each age group.