{"id":1303,"date":"2017-08-19T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2017-08-12T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:24:36","slug":"what-do-children-think-about-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2017\/08\/19\/what-do-children-think-about-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Children Think About Meditation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tackled a new issue: how to get children to practice mindful activities (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2017\/08\/10\/mindful-games-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mindful Games for Kids<\/a><\/strong>, 10 Aug 2017). In that post I said, &#8220;I can\u2019t picture an 8 year-old sitting on a cushion, silently counting in- and out-breaths.&#8221; Now a post on the Trike Daily blog (A. Tzelnic, 2 Aug 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/tricycle.org\/trikedaily\/little-buddhas-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8220;Little Buddhas in the Classroom,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0tells me that I may have underestimated the possibilities. Perhaps starting Chem 201 classes by\u00a0putting away phones followed by 30 seconds of silence?<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: the post describes 4th-6th graders so 10-12 year-olds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently tackled a new issue: how to get children to practice mindful activities (Mindful Games for Kids, 10 Aug 2017). In that post I said, &#8220;I can\u2019t picture an 8 year-old sitting on a cushion, silently counting in- and out-breaths.&#8221; Now a post on the Trike Daily blog (A. Tzelnic, 2 Aug 2017), &#8220;Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,34],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}