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September 08, 2018 KID Loves, MOM Loves Author: KID C 1 Comment

TEACH YOUR CHILDMEDITATION THE EASY WAY

Teach Your Child Meditation

Have you ever thought about teaching your child meditation? I never thought about it before this pastschool year.

A teacher introduced my son to mindfulness and breathing exercises for concentration purposes. Westarted with some breathing exercises to calm my son’s mind before bed time. We tried a bedtimeroutine but it never resonated with either of us.  My son would start deep breathing and fall asleepfrom boredom. Meditations isn’t exactly exciting for a ten-year old.

Around the same time I received a copy of the book Teach Your Child Meditation by Lisa Roberts toreview in early spring.  I started reading it and the presentation of the exercises seemed so muchsimpler and more interesting than what we had been doing.  I began enjoying the book and started tothink that we would try meditating again.  Then, as luck would have it I desperately needed to put thebook’s exercises into action.

I had an unfortunate health incident occur on the Fourth of July.  It resulted with me being carted awayby ambulance while my already anxious boy watched in tears.  Luckily I am fine now, but my son’sanxiety has stuck around.  He has nightmares, he keeps coming into our bed overnight and he getsnervous when he is away from me. These are all understandable reactions to a traumatic event but Iwas hoping that once he saw I was ok he would go back to his happy-go-lucky persona. Since thatdidn’t happen we began nightly sessions with “Teach Your Child Meditation.”

Teach Your Child Meditation

Lisa Roberts does a nice job breaking down the different types of meditative devices that areavailable.  Her simple presentation through engaging games and illustrations make the act ofmeditating feel a game.

Belly Breaths

The book is broken down into five engagingsections:

Within each section you will find minilessons with adorable illustrations:

1. I’m the Boss of My Breath2. Hocus Pocus, I Can Focus3. Stress Busters and Energy Equalizers4. The Chill Zone5. Connect

Side Breathing

The meditation instructions are brokendown into fun activities such as:

Belly Breathing

Ocean Breathing

Taco Tongue

Snow Globe Meditation

Air Soccer

Magic Carpet Ride

Teach Your Child Meditation has 70 fun and easy ways to help kids de-stress.  The book isappropriate for children aged 5-12 but I have to say that this book was helpful for me as well. Even asan adult I could never sit still to meditate before learning some of these cute tips. Thanks to LisaRoberts I might actually kick stress in the pants once and for all!

From The PublisherTeach Your Child Meditation by Lisa Roberts 192 Pages Published 6/5/18

Lisa Roberts is a registered yoga teacher and registered children’s yoga teacher.  She holds acertificate in children’s yoga therapy.  She has worked in the pediatric wellness field since 2006 andcurrently runs the inpatient yoga program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Lisa offers professional

training teaching Kids Adaptive and Accessible Yoga for pediatric professionals, parents and yogateachers.  In addition to Teach Your Child Meditation, she has developed a line of teaching tools forpediatric yoga teachers, parents and kids.

*A copy of Teach Your Child Meditation was provided for me to review.  All opinions statedhere are true and unbiased.*

 

 

 

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YoYo Yoga School • 18 hours ago

Thank you for your post! I am so happy to hear the book helped you and your son

(and that you are feeling better too!). Lisa Roberts

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