NurturingInnerCalminChildren

Nurturing Inner Calm in ChildrenLinda LantieriAs adults, we often feel the pressures of today sfast-paced world and think back longingly to atime when our daily lives were a lot less stress-ful. Today one-third of Americans report that theyare living with extreme stress and almost half feelthat the stress in their lives has increased over thepast five years (American Psychological Association2007). Unfortunately, today s children are not im-mune to the stress of everyday life, either. Our soci-ety has changed in many ways that increase pressureon children and compromise their poll conducted by the national Kids Poll sur-veyed 875 children , ages nine through thirteen,about what caused them stress and what copingstrategies they used the most to deal with the stressin their lives. The top three sources of stress that theyreported were grades, school, and homework (36%);family (32%); and friends, peers, gossip, and teasing(21%).

We, as the adults in children’s lives, can’t keep tell-ing our children countless times to “calm down” or “pay attention” without providing them with some

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