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Encourage kindness with your children

December 6, 2016 by Coastal Kids

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Encouraging kindness with your children is one of the most important aspects of character development. Children can learn that being kind and giving to others produces a number of benefits, which they may not be aware of or understand. With so many children today being unfamiliar with what true kindness represents, some actually need to be encouraged in the process.

Parents can participate in helping their children develop acts of kindness. It starts with letting children know exactly what extending kindness is, how it is done and what its benefits are. An actual explanation of kindness is best transmitted to children as being able to observe and feel for the needs and misfortunes of others.

Lead by Example

Give your children examples of how extending kindness happens. Tell them about different organizations that help others. Make a chart showing a few organizations and how they bring kindness to others. The Salvation Army, Toys for Tots, and Operation Christmas Child are just a few good ones to use.

Tell your children about random acts of kindness that other children have done. Look in magazines and on the internet for examples, such as the young boy from Australia who created and made his own line of stuffed bears to give to children in hospitals as well as the little girl who gave her birthday cupcakes to her local garbage collector friend.

Once children understand what kindness entails, further explain to them that once kindness is given, their lives will be different, especially if they haven’t participated in giving in the past. They can experience feeling more relaxed and less stressed. They can interact better with family and friends, plus be happier and healthier individuals. As an added bonus, they are able to perform better in school.

Encouraging kindness

Encouraging kindness doesn’t have to be an outlandish or difficult process with children. It can be initiated with a daily act of kindness week where everyone in the family is involved in a kindness activity, such as doing the dishes for mom, washing dad’s car, taking out the garbage, picking up toys and any other number of activities. Happy families are giving families. They realize that participating in acts of kindness advances cohesiveness in the family unit.

Family acts of kindness can be extended to the local school, neighborhood, the community at large and beyond. Ask your children what they can do to better the lives of others and their community. Let them put on their thinking caps and come up with a bucket list of kindness activities.

With the holidays fast approaching, there are innumerable opportunities for encouraging kindness activities with your children. Inspiring children to participate in acts of kindness especially during the holidays can be infectious, and the possibilities for your children to extend kind acts to others can be truly gratifying.

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Parents Turn To Meditation Practices To Help Children Stay Calm

October 18, 2016 by Coastal Kids

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Meditation Practices To Help Children Stay Calm

Maybe you practice some form of meditation on your own to relieve stress in your life, but have you thought that it might be just as beneficial for your children? If your child experiences elevated stress levels, perhaps he or she can gain similar feelings of calmness through meditation tailored to his or her needs.

Children and Stress

Children can experience stress in their lives almost as often as adults and require some type of intervention to ease pressures from not only current cultural demands but from parents, school systems, authority figures, friends, and other outside influences. 

Meditation not Just for Adults Anymore

If parents can turn to meditation and related practices for stress relief and peace of mind, perhaps their children can derive similar benefits through appropriate programs that address their needs. With children experiencing worry at more than normal levels, there are stress-relieving and calming routines that can benefit both their minds and bodies.

Stress Reduction Programs

Stress reduction programs can assist children with stress relief and they are easily shared at home or through programs incorporated within schools. One such program that has been recently adapted for children is Mindfulness.

– Mindfulness

Mindfulness is an easily utilized meditation-related practice that helps children with awareness, isolation of their present actions along with focused breathing and relaxation. Mindfulness not only reduces stress, anxiety, and depression in children but it encourages and promotes:

• greater awareness of the moment
• improved focus
• reduced impulsivity
• mood control
• better emotional stability (mind calming)
• physical activity (stress reducer)
• enriched sleep quality
• improved success in various endeavors
• less fear and frustration
• peaceful existence and happiness
• more compassion and clarity

Mindfulness and Child Center Activities

Mindfulness principles can be accomplished through some of the following child-centered activities:

– Belly breathing relaxation practice

• focus is on the lower abdomen and imagining a balloon inflating

– Deep Muscle Relaxation

• stretching arms, lifting shoulders, curling ankles, tightening other muscle groups

– Present Moment Awareness

• Object to draw exercise – The child is asked to select an object from a collection of items (such as a shoe, phone or clock). He or she is then asked to create a drawing of the object. Once the drawing is completed, ask the child to draw it again with more detail and compare the first drawing with the second one. Finally, ask the child what it was like to spend more time looking at the object, which he or she might not have otherwise observed more closely for details.

– Creative Movements

• creative yoga and accompanying breathing exercises specifically tailored for children encourage physical activity and bodily control that aid in calming

– Quiet Time Activities

• soft music and contemplation
• slow moving water, soft breezes, touching/handling natural objects
• calming scenery in connection with nature (slides, moving pictures, videos)
• familiar scents/smells – identifying with or without blindfolds

– Visualization

• relaxing in a comfortable bean bag or reclining on a floor mat
• closing the eyes and visualizing/imaging/remembering a
• perfect vacation
• pleasant activity
• memorable and positive occasion

Mindfulness with parent or school involvement assists children in developing strategies for remaining calm and stress free as well as aiding in the development of good habits. Solutions are available through Mindfulness programs for children of all ages

 


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