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ALPHABREATHS: The ABC’s of Mindful Breathing For Kids

ALPHABREATHS: The ABC’s of Mindful Breathing For Kids. Picture / Drawing of a child in the woods exhaling with the wind courtesy of Christopher Willard
All illustrations by Holly Clifton-Brown

By working with children’s imaginations, teaching mindfulness in the classroom can help students navigate their inner feelings and experience

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Teaching mindfulness to kids, at face value, actually sounds ridiculous. Trust me, I hear it all the time. But while images of a lotus-legged four year-old ‘ quietly may come to mind, that’s never been quite what I am trying to do in my work as a therapist, parent coach, and consultant to a number of different schools.

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