I have tried to think of a less cliched way to say it, but so much was eye-opening, and shook me out of my parenting comfort zone to encourage me to grow and adapt the tools I’d learned for other situations to those in my home.Īn example: during my time studying acupuncture, we worked on building rapport with patients through conscious communication and nonverbal communication practices. And I did! What I also got were these revelations about parenting and reminders about how I should be using MY mindfulness skills in my relationship with my child. I thought I was getting a course on how to teach mindfulness to kids. I had experience teaching meditation, mindfulness, yoga and qigong to adults, but could I translate that to kid-friendly experience? So I signed up for the class, intrigued by learning new ways to make it accessible for little ones. So when my son was 3 ½ or so, Shambhala offered a class on a book originally published in The Netherlands: Sitting Still Like A Frog by Eline Snel. I have read and heard statistics like this quite a bit while studying yoga therapy and acupuncture.
A study done in a UK school found the attention span of students was only twenty seconds long. Mindfulness brings with it a message of self-love, self-esteem and a general sense of “I’m okay.
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