211: The Missing Piece – a guided meditation and soothing story

Pete the Puzzle is missing a piece and worries that the kids won't be able to enjoy playing anymore. What will he do? Hello everyone!  We hope you enjoyed our new story this week. Now, welcome to Favorite Friday! Sometimes we like to listen to our favorites again. Please enjoy “The Missing Piece” and we’ll be back with a new story on Monday! Narrator: Male Final Dragon Breath: 7:43 The Missing Piece Show Excerpt: Peering outside through the living room window Pete the Puzzle could tell it was a day just for him. The sky was grey and the wind whistled through the trees.  The kids would want to stay in and do something where they could be toasty and warm.  There was just one problem.   The relaxing puzzle was missing a piece.  Pete worried what would happen when the kids discovered that they couldn’t finish the puzzle. How would they know what the picture was?  Pete wished he knew where that piece had disappeared to.  He didn’t have much time to figure it out before he was picked up off the shelf.  One of the boys had decided it was indeed a good day for a puzzle.   The little boy carried Pete over to a table where his brother waited.  He opened the puzzle box, and out tumbled the puzzle pieces. Pete watched as some of the pieces slid off the table and onto the floor, thinking, maybe that’s how the piece got lost in the first place.  The boys stooped down and picked up the puzzle pieces that had landed on the floor, placing them back on the table.   “How do you want to start?”  One of the boys asked the other. Today’s Meditation: Happiness and love flow through you in this meditation. Looking for a way to help your child learn emotional regulation and how to self soothe? You'll find them on Ahway Island®. Be Calm on Ahway Island® Podcast offers original bedtime stories, like "Happy Dragon," paired with meditations for kids. We help them drift off to sleep with a guided relaxation and a calming story. Gently nestled within each podcast episode are mindfulness techniques and positive learning moments.  To learn more about our mission at Ahway Island and our team, please visit our website. Creating the original bedtime stories and art for Be Calm on Ahway Island takes a lot of time and care. As a listener-supported podcast, we truly appreciate our members on Patreon. If you're not already a member, please consider joining! Writing, recording, editing, and publishing episodes and managing digital platforms is an enormous endeavor. Our Patreon program will help continue to grow Ahway Island and we hope you will support us! You can choose from 3 different Membership Levels, all of which include access to our Archives and an extra episode each week! Are you and your children enjoying our stories and self-soothing meditations? We hope your child loved “The Missing Piece" We ask for your positive reviews to help others find us, too! Please leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast app (such as Apple Podcasts). And, please follow, like, and/or share our social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ) to help us bring our original stories with positive messages to even more listeners! In the press: Digital Trends warns listeners that "you may not make it through an entire episode fully conscious." Yay!