Silver Medal, 2nd place out of 2,000 entries for Children's Television production/HOST at New York Film and Television Festival; Miss Hospitality of Kansas, 1969; Parent Appreciation Awards for Elementary Grades K-3 for SELF-HELP Student Program; Incubator Award in Education (awarded by State of Oregon) for Kindergarten Self-Help Program; Invited and appointed to Editorial Board of Special Projects sponsored by Rosalynn Carter Institute; Awarded invitation to represent rural areas at Surgeon General's Children's Mental Health Conference; First and Second place awards for costumes in July Fourth parades in Ashland, 2nd and 3rd place awards for Monster Marathon costume contest, Ashland, Watermelon Seed Spitting Champion.  
Congressman Wu: “Janai, you are doing a great job with your pioneering work. It is so important for the health of families, classrooms and our communities.”

United Nations Representative, Vangie White: “Janai's approach and program for children should be available for every child in every nation for a better world.”

55 yr. old female client, nurse/grandmother: “What I have learned from Janai's self-help coaching, workshops and classes has uplifted me to a whole new level of living, appreciation of life, myself and seeing others in a new way. I can't thank her enough.”
Bruce Kelsh, International School Principal, Lima, Peru: “All records were broken for attendance with parents and teachers when Janai trained staff, parents, teachers and students for one week. Her passion and approach are irresistible, they work and are easily integrated into any system. In addition, she approaches facilitation with such upliftment and a flare for fun that learning is irresistible.”

6 yr. old client: “I love Janai stuff she teaches me. It helps. I remembered to take a deep breath to help myself after our apartment burned down before I went to look at it. Everything was burned.”

Cassie Ruud, Jr. College student: “What I learned from Janai in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades gave me an opportunity to create a different life for myself. I was headed for trouble. I am now happy, healthy and successful in my endeavors and not blaming others.”

School Officer: “I have never seen children be so respectful of one another, apologize and forgive on the playground. Janai's Self-Help program is amazing!”  

Superkid Power is an empowering catalyst for children, families, schools to create confidence in using skills for self-control and calm grounding in any life circumstances. Life is a workshop. Superkid Power gives tools in creative and fun workshops/sessions/speaking engagements that light up lives with enthusiasm for navigating life healthily and happily.
 
47 years of pioneering this work has brought Janai 'Grandma Boom' Mestrovich, M.S. to international training, NBC television award as well as parenting and statewide awards. Her books on Amazon meet the needs for parents and teachers to be involved entertaining and education (education) children as well as audio downloads. www.superkidpower.org is filled with free resources including a video for children to gain a basic understanding of their inner world awareness and skills.
 
Known for her ability to captivate audiences of all ages in her innovative edutainment approach, Janai 'Grandma Boom' Mestrovich is a passionate visionary. She sees that prioritizing children is an essential basic necessity to shift the world into a more positive and healthy direction. 
 
Teaching children as young as three years old how to understand their own inner world with her signature 3D approach, she uses objects in the environment with metaphors and holistic experiences to connect to their resources inside themselves. They learn how their thoughts/feelings/body sensations work together as a system with breathing as well as self-regulation calming skills to manage stress, build resiliency and self worth. She trains adults with these skills they did not receive when young. If you are looking for a dynamic, fun, energetic and knowledgeable speaker/trainer, Janai is the choice that will bring great success to your goals.
 
Ms. Mestrovich taught at the University of Oregon, as well as Southern Oregon University, creating a twofold approach that introduced adults how to teach children self-help skills. This provided the adults personal experiences for their own lives as well as understanding how to relay the skills to manage stress and develop emotional intelligence to young children. Her focus is that all children deserve to feel like SUPERKIDS. Empowering Superkids with self-help skills is the core of her life work. She knows that all children have the right to learn how to use their internal resources and feel their own SUPERKID POWER.

Ms. Mestrovich is Executive Director of the non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)3 SuperKid Power, Inc, recently receiving grants to film her work for children. The Facebook page has regular updates on Janai's activities through  SuperKid Power, Inc.

Publications: Janai has seven books available on Amazon, seven for caring adults to use with young children, as well as her self-help memoir endorsed by Doris Day Janai has been published in New Consciousness Review, Sixty and Me, Oregon Seniors, educational journals and a variety of other publications have published Janai's work over the past few decades as well as a newspaper columnist in two states. 

Ms. Mestrovich created several PSA's for KSKQ Radio and received sponsorship for televised PSA's on Ashland Cable TV. She has been a guest on radio and television nationally and internationally, in addition to being an invigorating, entertaining speaker.

Janai 'Grandma Boom' Mestrovich is an outrageously fun grandmother! She loves helping others to create an improved skill based foundation in life for greater fulfillment in health and happiness. All ages qualify to have fun learning!

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