Positive Penguins is a resilience-building app for children. Through guided meditation, friendly characters, and simple thinking strategies, kids learn that they can choose how to respond to their feelings.
Kids identify their emotion from twelve friendly penguin faces — the first step to understanding it.
Real-life situations show kids how thoughts shape feelings — and how to challenge unhelpful thinking.
A simple 5-minute guided meditation helps children sit, relax and let thoughts pass through their heads.
A fun game mode for when kids just want to play — because resilience can be lighthearted, too.
We may not choose our initial feelings — but we can choose the thoughts and stories we tell ourselves.
Negative thoughts aren't wrong — but they aren't always true. Positive Penguins helps children catch unhelpful thinking, challenge it, and choose a more realistic, optimistic story.
Kids choose their character, then take an interactive journey through a feeling — at their own pace, with full sound and the option to record or type responses.
Pick from five friendly penguin characters who guide each child through the journey.
Twelve emotions — from calm and happy to angry, hurt and worried. Whatever it is, there's a penguin for it.
Walk through the situation, the thoughts behind the feeling, and a kinder, more realistic story.
A simple guided meditation teaches children how to sit, breathe deeply, and let thoughts pass through their heads. With full audio narration and on-screen text.
Winner of the Apps For All Challenge 2014. The strategies inside Positive Penguins are simple, evidence-aligned, and built to be used again and again — at home, at school, and beyond.
Sara Price built Positive Penguins when she was 11, and won the national Australian Tech Girls Are Superheroes search by 2014.
She's now a neuroscience PhD researcher studying how the developing brain wires the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours we carry into adulthood — work that keeps Positive Penguins grounded in how young minds actually work.
Download Positive Penguins on iPhone or iPad. Made for ages 6–12 and brilliant for the whole family — adults included.