The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate
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| Title | : | The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate |
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416583009 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2010-05-04 |
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The techniques of mindful awareness have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program affiliated with UCLA, The Mindful Child is a groundbreaking book, the first to show parents how to teach these transformative practices to their children.Mindful awareness works by enabling you to pay closer attention to what is happening within you—your thoughts, feelings, and emotions—so you can better understand what is happening to you. The Mindful Child extends the vast benefits of mindfulness training to children from four to eighteen years old with age-appropriate exercises, songs, games, and fables that Susan Kaiser Greenland has developed over more than a decade of teaching mindful awareness to kids. These fun and friendly techniques build kids’ inner and ou
Editorial : “A superb and imaginative distillation of the essence of mindfulness made available to children, parents, and teachers in age-appropriate, wise, and playful ways. Sets a high bar for further work in the rapidly growing field of mindfulness in K-12 education.” --Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine emeritus, UMass Medical School and author of Letting Everything Become Your Teacher andWherever You Go, There You Are
“One of the best books on mindfulness for kids that I have read. Practical and accessible. You can feel Susan’s years of experience and dedication.” --Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and The Wise Heart
“Parents often ask me for advice about being mindful with their children. From here on out, I will refer them to this tremendously helpful book, filled with clear insights about children and how to teach them gently and skillfully. A truly inspiring book.” —Sharo
Gavin is still cursed to be stone by day and man by night. Is this a townhouse? A condo? Is this picture on page 88 the other half of the living room shown on page 45? Are those leather tiles? WHO KNOWS!
Its not until the end of the book that you come across an appendix offering select (small) images and brief descriptions regarding mostly paint colors by PPG/Pittsburgh Paints. But as Baron points out, the pencil is itself a technological marvel, one that required as much engineering know-how in its day as the iPad does now. This book is an academic treatise, replete with references to research and to academic studies and documentation. If the look you're going for is urban grunge, then I guess it's OK. . That is not the case in this most recent book. I thought the story was sweet and the characters very likeable. Our five year old has Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, and Expressive Language Disorder. I'm not all the way through this book, but so far it has been VERY helpf
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