Bestselling author Goldie Hawn offers parents a practical guide for helping their children to learn better and live more happily. Based on the MindUP programme, supported by the Hawn Foundation, 10 Mindful Minutes outlines short, practical exercises for parents and children - taking less than 10 minutes - to help young children and teenagers reduce stress and anxiety, improve concentration and academic performance, effectively manage emotions and behaviour, develop greater empathy for others and the world, and be more optimistic and happy. Representing the culmination of years of research and programmes developed by the Hawn Foundation currently being used by schools internationally, this book will help children and parents develop mindfulness which has been proven to promote more effective learning and happier lives.
Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award-winning actress and a New York Times bestselling author. In 2003 she established the Hawn Foundation, working with leading educators and neuroscientists to promote children's success in school and life through social and emotional learning. Wendy Holden is an experienced journalist.
Title: 10 Mindful Minutes: Giving our children - and ourselves - the social and emotional skills to reduce stress and anxiety for healthier, happier lives
Author: Goldie Hawn, Wendy Holden
ISBN: 9780749957667
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 2012-03-01
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.3584 kg
This is a remarkable book. It is full of wisdom for us all - parents and other care-givers - inviting us to taste mindfulness for ourselves. Here is chance not to be missed: to learn from the inside how mindfulness can help us to see clearly and respond wisely to the emotional and developmental needs of our children. Read it and use it: you may find you are doing nothing less than giving back to your children their childhood, while they still have the chance to live it Mark Williams, Director, University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre and author of Mindfulness: Finding peace in a frantic world ... to help you towards a calmer, happier frame of mind. -- Woman & Home Woman & Home 10 Mindful Minutes can help any adult - parent, grandparent, teacher - make double use of their moments with the children they love and have a terrific time while helping shape that child's brain for a lifetime of resilience and happiness Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence 10 [Mindful] Minutes isn't your run of the mill self-help book, but rather the product of the Hawn Foundation's collaboration with leading educators and researchers behind the evidence-based MindUP program ... Hawn has graciously condensed the knowledge, research and expertise into roughly 200 pages for you - your child's best teacher Huffington Post Goldie Hawn is arguably the most influential happiness expert of our time. She not only has achieved true happiness in her life but radiates it in her family and through the work of her foundation. Now, 10 Mindful Minutes offers a guide for the rest of us. This book artfully blends the latest science and quick, easy how-to advice with a rare glimpse into the epiphanies that led to Goldie's happiness work. It's an engaging must-read for every parent interested in raising a focused, balanced and happy child. Dan Buettner, New York TIMES bestselling author of The Blue Zones AND Thrive I saw how quickly the kids-and then the teachers-bought into the (MindUP) program and practices. The kids just got it right away, and seemed hungry for something that would help them manage the stresses in their life... In my twenty years of measuring social-emotional learning quotients, I've never seen a program that works as well as this one Dr Kimberly Schonert-Reichl Goldie Hawn has given us a beautiful guide to one of our most important roles - raising healthy, joyful, and resilient children. Rooted in scientific research and chock full of practical tools and techniques, 10 Mindful Minutes will forever change the way you parent, and it'll change how you live your own life, too. Greg Hicks, bestselling co-author of How We Choose to Be Happy AND Happiness & HEALTH All adults will find something of value in this insightful book; but for parents, grandparents, teachers and carers, this is essential reading, by sharing this knowledge with the children you care for, you can effectively change their lives! Highly Recommended! Hot Brands, Cool Places Magazine
