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Mindfulness For Kids: How To Teach Your Child To Live In The Moment (Alyson Schafer - HuffPost Canada)

Mindfulness For Kids: How To Teach Your Child To Live In The Moment (Alyson Schafer - HuffPost Canada)

When Alyson Schafer talks, parents listen. As a therapist, author of 3 extraordinary parenting books, and an internationally acclaimed parenting expert and speaker, Alyson empowers families by sharing her principles, rules and tools for raising happy and healthy kids. Here's her latest take on how to bring mindfulness into your home... and check out her beloved Chocolate Meditation! Sounds delicious (not to mention, easy to implement).

Teaching Kids - and Parents - the Art of Mindfulness (The Washington Post)

Teaching Kids - and Parents - the Art of Mindfulness (The Washington Post)

With high-stakes tests beginning in some elementary schools, increasingly overscheduled afternoons and pressure to do more demanding extracurricular activities at ever-younger ages, many kids are feeling overwhelmed. 
Mindfulness (or 'body fulness', as this article mentions) is proving to be a grounding influence to counteract all of this swirling stress...