Mindfulness for kids - E-book - ePub

Raising a child is one of the most intimidating tasks a person can be given. Many parents are just intimidated by the task of helping the child reach adulthood, and the people who are confidant in that will be wary about how they can set the child up for success. Though there is no complete answer to raising your child with the best chance of success, there is one that is helpful: mindfulness.            But when we're talking about mindfulness, we feel another sense of confusion.
What is mindfulness? You probably know it's helpful and have heard it in the context of self-help and therapy, but a complex definition may be lacking. If you're familiar with mindfulness itself, you may not be certain about its application to child-rearing and furthermore, how it's actually taught to a child! If a fully grown adults are struggling with achieving a semblance of mindfulness, then how could you teach it to a small child?!            This all gets very confusing.
Childcare itself is already nuanced enough, but now there's the subject of mindfulness that's supposed to help? Luckily, this book covers all of the questions that you may have about mindfulness, its application to childcare, and how to apply such ideas!First, we'll introduce the idea of mindfulness. This sounds simple, but we're going cover a lot of ground!The idea of mindfulness is ancient- literally.
The idea is introduced in Buddhism, but its cultural ties have spread so much that there is no certain practice of mindfulness anymore! Despite that, if you want to truly understand and idea, you have to know where it comes from. We're talking about mindfulness as it applies to children, so it's best to get the basics out of the way. How does mindfulness work for most people?We're also talking about childcare in the context of mindfulness.
So, in order for the rest of the book to go smoothly, we're going to introduce some popular methods of introducing your child to new ideas!Did you know that mindfulness can be active? Not only actively pursued but acted out in dynamic ways! That's right- mindfulness isn't only in the mind. We're going to talk about methods of active mindfulness to achieve what's known as "passive mindfulness, " and explain some exercises for doing so!Physical ties to mindfulness will be more than covered, especially since it's a lesser-known method of achieving mindfulness!Internal mindfulness is more traditional.
Mindfulness in the mindThe idea of passive mindfulness, what seems to be the ultimate goal for many, is going to be covered, and we're going to give some exercises for achieving it!Internal and external mindfulness are not mutually exclusive. Though they are opposites, that doesn't make it so that they can't work together! Furthermore, one is not just a steppingstone for the other- the two are codependent on one another!Habits don't matter if they don't stick! In our conclusion, we're not only going to review the content of the book, but we're also going to talk about ways to make sure that they have as long lasting an effect on your child as possible!