amygdala Archives - Teaching Children Meditation

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Meditation

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How mindfulness helps children with trauma

Teaching your children how to self-soothe

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Learn how to help children reset their feelings – to move from chaos to calm

Helping teens with stress and addiciton to technology

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If your kids are addicted to their tech or you have big behaviour struggles around phones and gaming … some support is on its way!

Helping kids manage their behaviour

Managing the big emotions with meditation

High Five reminder to teach kids meditation

This simple visual can help your kids use their superpowers (aka meditation) to self-regulate!

Mindful skills for kids with anger and panic attacks

We interviewed one of our wonderful trainers, Tara Russo, about bringing her educator experience in teaching into the world of teaching children meditation. Tara is one of our trainers on the Connected Kids programme. She talks about how it helped her daughter who had panic attacks with anxiety, and children in school with anger […]

Mindful Trauma-Informed Parenting

Lorraine E Murray, founder of Connected Kids, interviews Suzanne Scott, founder of the charity Trauma Informed Parenting Scotland

Meditation and mindfulness for autism and ADHD

I initially had the idea back in 2003 that we should be teaching our kids meditation and mindfulness. Back then… there was very little in the way of resources that people could find to help them teach kids and teens mindful meditation practices. How the landscape has changed (thank goodness!) Today we see meditation and […]