Episode #5: Why teach Mindfulness in Early childhood?
In this week's episode I want to continue the chat about Mindfulness but this time through a lens of “Early Intervention”. Sadly we know that statistics are on the rise for childhood mental disorders and even without the research I think we can all agree that everyone’s mental health and wellbeing - especially children’s - has taken a real hit post-Covid times. I don’t throw that term around as tokenistic or as a trend - I really believe in generations to come, when we look back at this point in history (as with all other significant historical events) we will see a clear divide in sociological behaviours, human development, scientific and technological advances - all the ‘goings-on in the world” as ‘pre-Covid’ and ‘post-Covid’. You can read more about that in my latest Blog here.
But for the purpose of this episode, I’ll talk about why teaching Mindfulness practices needs to be as much a part of the early childhood curriculum as pre-literacy, pre-numeracy, and all the other ‘traditional’ learning areas. And of course, it wouldn’t be a complete conversation without bringing the element of Musical learning into it, cause you know how much that supercharges the brain!
Oh, and just like last week, make sure you stick around to the end of the episode as we’ll finish with a few minutes of breathing to the magical sounds of the Tank drum! I received some really lovely feedback with how helpful that was, so I’ll make an effort to include a little breathing practice more often (you can see me as your accountability buddy if you like!)
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