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Teach Your Kids to Meditate
Meditation can offer a sense of stability when life gets messy and even chaotic. Give your kids the gift of meditation.
Meditation can feel like a very grownup activity. There’s patience, sitting still, and doing nothing — and let’s face it, kids aren’t known for any of those things.
But kids can definitely benefit from meditation. It can be a source of stability and consistency when life is full of turmoil. It gives them a safe space to go even when they can’t go anywhere else. And if they can learn to do it as a child, they can be reaping the benefits long before adulthood, potentially changing their relationship with stress before it begins.
Many people aren’t sure where to begin, though. How do you get a child who is always on the go and gets bored in the time it takes to pee to sit down, close their eyes, and meditate? How do you teach them what meditation is and how it works?
There are a few things you can do.
Don’t focus on teaching them all the details
Kids don’t necessarily need to understand what meditation is, how it works, or why they should do it. Depending on their age, they may not be able to understand any of those things. But even very small…
