Think, Feel, Act: Lessons from research about young children (Ontario Ministry of Education)
What Is Self-Regulation?
Just about everywhere you turn these days you come across someone talking about the importance of enhancing children’s ability to self-regulate. This is because of a growing number of studies showing that self-regulation lays a foundation for a child’s long-term physical, psychological, behavioral, and educational well-being (Shanker, 2012).
We highly recommend this important reading by Dr. Stuart Shanker
York University: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/childcare/selfRegulate.html
15 Questions To Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets (Lifehack.org)
8 Ways To Teach Mindfulness To Kids (Huffington Post)
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Helps Kids (and Adults) Discover the Mind's Rich, Emotional Tapestry (New York Times)
Can movies think? This is a longstanding critical question, usually answered in the negative. Literature, the thinking goes, is uniquely able to show us the flow of thought and feeling from within, but the camera’s eye and the two-dimensional screen can’t take us past the external signs of consciousness.
Mindfulness In Schools Project (Richard Burnett at Tedx)
Healthy Habits of Mind (Neuroscientist Richard Davidson & Mindful Schools Program)
Great film that shows how kindergarteners in Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley, San Francisco are introduced to mindfulness in school. They practice mindful listening, mindful eating, mindful movement and yoga. Mindfulness is a way of being and one of the benefits is that it teaches how to pay attention.
Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness (Neuroscientist Panel)
What Does Mindfulness Meditation Do To Your Brain (Scientific American Magazine)
Mindfulness Exercises Improve Kid's Math Scores (Time Magazine)
In adults, mindfulness has been shown to have all kinds of amazing effects throughout the body: it can combat stress, protect your heart, shorten migraines and possibly even extend life. But a new trial published in the journal Developmental Psychology suggests that the effects are also powerful in kids as young as 9—so much so that improving mindfulness showed to improve everything from social skills to math scores.