How to teach kids about mindfulness?
Today’s lifestyle is in hurry, kids want more, need more and think even more. Kids need to relax, calm down while upset or disoriented, they need to learn to settle down their mind.
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How to teach kids about mindfulness?
Today’s lifestyle is in hurry, kids want more, need more and think even more. Kids need to relax, calm down while upset or disoriented, they need to learn to settle down their mind.
It’s essential for caretaker or teachers to educate themselves in such a manner so that they can give mindfulness meaning to the kids on daily basis. Be it books, food or communication, mindfulness can be practiced easily.
Inner peace is just a term if not practiced and if practiced from childhood, its bliss. Kids listen, imply and apply accordingly, and mindfulness plays a vital role.
The responsibility of teaching kids mindfulness is requisite, designing activities which can help kids to understand and relate how mindfulness is important. Sometimes kids suffer quite too much in school or neighborhood which they hardly can share, so discussions are vital for their throw out, as holding inside can be a problem in long term.
There are many ways to lean towards and practice mindfulness.
Before we take this further, you should know what causes stress to kids at that certain age, and root cause should be blurred from their life:
- Attention problems
- Lack of focus
These are the major cause of stress and to deal with these above issues, we have some fun activities which can be performed at home or by educators.
Fun-Filled Activities To Help Kids Teach About Mindfulness:
BODY POSES :
It’s a very simple pose where the kid has to stand with the wider feet than the hips and hands or fists placed on the hips. Be in that particular position for as long as you can.
This particular activity plays with strong emotions to mellow it down with the right balance. For this, you need a clear jar which is filled with water. Now add a spoon full of glitter glue or dry glitter and glue and mix them well.
Now imagine that the glitter is much like the thoughts that keep coming to you, which can be good, bad, sad and makes to stressed. See now whirl around to make it really hard to see clearly, so thought to go here and there that’s why you get upset and cant takes the right decision.
And this happens to all of us, as soon as we keep it aside, everything gets settled and then you can see things much clearer. This activity helps you bring control over emotions.
This activity is fun loving and simple for kids, tell your kids that you are taking them for a safari where they can see bugs, birds and many other animals, they need to notice them throughout.
Ask them to focus on everything that crawls, walks, swims or flies as and what interests them the most. In this activity, all their senses will be working and settle the stress their body is suffering from.
SIT LIKE A FROG :
Ask kids to sit like a frog, imagining that you are sitting on a lily pad and if you move a little more, the lily pad will tip over and you will fall in the water. Make sure kids are taking their stomach in and out, this activity helps them and makes the body relaxed and focused at the same time.
Other than these fun activities, there are many TIPS for teaching kids mindfulness.
- Share your own experience with kids, how you tackle difficult situations with ease.
- Encourage kids to share their own experience with you.
- Explain them mindfulness and ask them to relax.
- Share a few ways to meditate on a regular basis.
- Ask them to watch videos on mindfulness.
- Ask them to share the worst with you and let them open up.
Mindfulness is bliss if practiced the right way. It starts from communication along with effective activities. Being a parent or educator, it’s a soulful responsibility to make them understand the importance of balance.
Neha Gandhi, An Aspiring Writer
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