10. Practice mindful eating.The exercise of mindfully eating a raisin or a piece of chocolate is a staple of mindfulness education, and is a great activity for kids. You can find ascript for a 7-minute mindful eating exercise for children here. This is a fun way to teach children to pa...
Have fun! All of the games include activity-based mindfulness strategies that are useful to everyone, regardless of age. Don’t be surprised when older children and teens are drawn to activities meant for young children, and young children have fun playing games that seem over their heads. Rem...
Strategies for overcoming common obstacles and engaging kids with different learning styles are explored. Chapters also share ways to incorporate mindfulness into a broad range of children's activities, such as movement, sports, music, games, writing, and art. Giving clinicians and educators practices...
Watch the video below to learn about five proven strategies to help you know yourself better. DIY Recipe for a Mindfulness Jar This great recipeadapted from HeartMindKids is simple, and only uses a few ingredients that are all easy to find at the store. ...
6 Tips to Help Kids Calm and Focus: Yoga and Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD As a parent to a child diagnosed withADHD, please join me in exploring the overwhelming sensory environment of homes and schools and the critical need for strategies that help children find a balance between activity...
As part of the kick-off for my new book Mindfulness in the Classroom: Strategies for Promoting Concentration, Compassion, and Calm, I’m going to be producing some videos which get at different aspects of mindfulness, both for adults and for children and adolescents. This first video looks at...
For additional ideas for practicing mindfulness with your children, you can readmy post here about teaching relaxation and calming strategiesto kids to help them deal with anger and frustration. You can also readthis post about creating mind jarsto teach children about calming their minds with thei...
Using our app will equip your kids with the tools they need to handle the more difficult moments in life and the emotions that come with them. Help your children to feel happiness from the inside out through strategies of coping with change and working through tough feelings like anger, sadne...
a very short fuse and when he explodes it is painful for everyone including him. We had tried several different strategies to help him learn self regulation and self calming skills with little success. The issue was in that explosive moment he was too out of control to use any strategies. ...
But for some people that same big feeling results in withdrawing. Either way, it’s the same big feeling — the difference is just how a particular person responds to it. We notice the big feelings and how we respond to them, and then we have these strategies that help us settle so th...