Mindfulness for Children

I just read an interesting article about a program in England that is using various mindfulness techniques to help children regulate their emotions. It's a three-year program that started earlier this year. From my experience with mindfulness and what I've seen of studies (mainly on adults), mindfulness for children seems like an excellent idea.

Yet, I can say because I've worked in social services for over 25 years, that problems crop up, sometimes, in the implementation of these programs. That is, after they are approved, they get used with great zeal, at least at first, but then the law of entropy takes over, and things get messier. But the worst aspect is that from the get-go, there is little to no "good" documentation of how it really works.

Especially toward the latter part of the program, the administration and workers worry about "how the program will look," and therefore skew the paperwork to make it look like the program is a great success (and therefore the agency gets refunded).

The devil is in the details--or is it God?

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