Mindfulness Exercises for Children

  Stress can affect children. Therefore, providing them with strategies like mindfulness helps them better handle adverse situations and have a better quality of life in the future. In this article, we’ll suggest five short exercises. Mindfulness is potentially an important pathway toward emotional self-regulation. This means it allows infants to self-regulate by directing the focus of their attention in a specific way. In effect, they entirely focus their awareness nonjudgmentally on what comes to mind in the here and now. “Mindfulness is an important skill that we can teach children to help them manage their emotions and improve their…