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  Meditation is a mind-body practice that brings in  moments of calm, brings about self-awareness, and allows people to stay connected with themselves, according to Sarah Roffe, LCSW, CCLS, a co-founder and psychotherapist at Kind Minds Therapy. Research has confirm that for children, mindfulness can: Mitigate the effects of bullying (Zhou, Liu, Niu, Sun, & Fan, 2016); Enhance focus in children with ADHD (Zhang et al., 2016);  Reduces attention deficit issues  (Crescentini, Capurso, Furlan, & Fabbro, 2016); Improve mental health and wellbeing; Improve social skills when well taught and practiced with children and adolescents. People can get  nervous  hearing the...

  How can we help children goal set, have a resolution and help them succeed? Below are a few ideas how it can be done. Write goals down, make them attainable, and create a plan of accountability Psychologist Gabriele Oettingen did a research study on success rates of people who had optimistic beliefs about their future goals vs. the success rates of people who had pessimistic beliefs. Surprisingly results showed that there is no direct correlation between them. Optimists ignored or glossed over obstacles, while self-defeating, pessimist didn’t believe in their own capabilities. Instead, what she found was that: (1) Mental...

  As adults, we might not believe so much in resolutions. Life by nature is challenging. It is up to us to rise up to the challenge. Some days may be easier, but some days a lot harder. That is good, because this is the time when we think we can change ourselves and our habits, and become much better, happier and healthier people. We just have to be open and aware of it. But how about kids? Should you encourage them to have New Year’s resolutions as well? Resolutions can be good or bad for kids. Just like anything...

                        Each year has its happy moments and challenges but 2020 is unique in its own way. It is a year where most would like to forget. We kept on waiting for the next day, the next week, the next year to be better. While we wait the whole year has passed. Now we are looking to 2021 with many looking forward to the end of 2020. Collins dictionary declared “ lockdown” as the word of the year. No argument there. We too got familiar with Covid 19, pandemic...