Where Big Feelings Meet Gentle SolutionsMeet Pip the Panda! Helping Kids Find Calm & Confidence
Through playful lessons and gentle stories, Pip helps children (and schools) embrace calm, compassion, and emotional resilience.
About Pip and his mindful worldThe heart of Pip and Friends
Pip isn’t just a panda, he’s a mindful friend who helps children discover the calm and confidence already inside them. Through playful stories and lessons, simple breathing practices, and his soft, huggable presence, Pip makes mindfulness easy and fun for us all.
At home or in the classroom, Pip shows children:
🌱 Kindness makes us stronger.
🌱 Calm helps us grow.
🌱 Confidence comes from within.
With Pip & Friends, big feelings turn into gentle lessons, and every moment becomes a chance to rise with peace.
Why Mindfulness Matters
Big feelings are a natural part of growing up. When children learn to meet those feelings with mindfulness, they discover that calm isn’t something they have to find, it’s something they already carry inside . Together, we can move through life with more peace, compassion, and joy.
Mindfulness isn’t about sitting still or being perfect, it’s about giving children simple, playful ways to handle life’s ups and downs. With Pip, mindfulness feels less like a lesson and more like a friend who’s always there to help.
From classrooms to living rooms, Pip & Friends makes mindfulness easy to understand and fun to practice. With stories, activities, and a soft companion to hold, children learn how to pause, breathe, and grow with confidence.
Mindfulness Comes Alive Through Pip & Friends:
Pip’s world is filled with gentle tools, heartfelt stories, and moments that help children grow with calm and confidence.-
Resource 01 - Pip the Panda Plush
A friend to hold onto.
Soft, soothing, and full of heart, Pip is a daily reminder that calm is always within reach. He helps children feel safe, seen, and supported — a gentle presence for big feelings and small victories alike. -
Resource 02 - The Pip & Friends Story Series
Stories that teach from the heart.
Each tale in the seven-book Pip & Friends series helps children explore emotions through mindfulness, curiosity, and compassion — turning everyday challenges into moments of growth and understanding. -
Resource 03 - Mindfulness Kits
Mindful play for curious hearts.
Filled with calming activities, breathing cards, and coloring pages, these kits invite children to practice presence through creativity — making mindfulness feel fun, natural, and magical. -
Resource 04 - Posters & Printables
Gentle reminders for mindful spaces.
Designed with Pip’s peaceful spirit, these visual affirmations bring warmth and calm into classrooms, bedrooms, or any space that needs a touch of stillness.
A Note from our founder“Every piece of Pip’s world was created to nurture peace from the inside out.”
Giana Marchese
The Journey with pip
Simple steps to bring mindfulness, calm, and connection into your child’s world.
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Begin with Curiosity
It starts with a story, or a smile. Meet Pip, explore his gentle lessons, and discover how mindfulness can transform your everyday moments.
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Welcome Pip in
Bring Pip into your home, classroom, or heart. With each mindful breath and story, children learn that calm and kindness live within them.
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Grow Together
Watch the ripple of peace unfold. As Pip’s lessons blossom, families and classrooms become spaces filled with presence, understanding, compassion, and joy.
Mindful Moments with Pip the PandaSmall moments of calm can change everything. Here’s how mindfulness with Pip comes to life at home, in classrooms, and in hears everywhere.
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From morning routines to bedtime reflections, Pip reminds children that peace begins within.
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Teachers use Pip’s gentle stories and mindful exercises to create calmer, more connected classrooms.
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Pip inspires a ripple of mindfulness that reaches families, educators, and communities — one breath at a time.
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Quiet mornings, gentle breathing, a friend by your side. Pip reminds children that peace begins within.
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Drawing, reading, breathing — small acts of mindfulness that teach presence and patience through play.
About Pip & FriendsPip was created to nurture calm, connection, and emotional growth in children everywhere. What began as one mindful panda has become a movement of kindness, a reminder that when we care for our inner world, life becomes more peaceful, joyful, and full of love.
Each story, product, and resource is designed with intention — to help families, educators, and children discover that mindfulness isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about finding beauty in the simple moments and remembering that calm is something we can always return to.
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Pip isn’t just about finding calm, he’s about embracing every emotion with love and curiosity. Through mindfulness and gentle storytelling, Pip helps children understand why they feel what they feel, so they can accept every part of themselves without judgment.
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Pip is for anyone learning to understand themselves a little more deeply. Whether you’re a child discovering big feelings or an adult guiding them, Pip & Friends offers tools to nurture awareness, compassion, and connection in everyday life.
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Because every emotion has something to teach us. When children learn to listen to their feelings and understand them with kindness — instead of fear or resistance — they build the foundation for lifelong confidence, empathy, and authenticity.
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Start with Pip’s storybooks, plush companion, and mindfulness resources — each one created to help children explore emotions, express themselves freely, and grow with self-love and understanding.
Guiding children to embrace every feeling with kindness and self-love.
Questions you may have