Helping Kids Live Mindfully: A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students

Catherine DePino

Mar 2017 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

Helping Kids Live Mindfully: A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students helps students enhance their lives by using Mindfulness on a daily basis in school and at home. It gives them the tools to cope with anger, frustration, and stress, while helping them learn how to talk and listen to get positive results. The book aims to help students maximize their school experience academically and socially. It's a fact that many school districts using Mindfulness programs find that teaching their students Mindfulness techniques can greatly enhance school climate and cut down on discipline problems so students can be free to learn and flourish in the classroom. Additionally, this book helps teachers reach curricular goals in many subject areas by providing small group, entire class, and individual activities. Finally, this book encourages parents and extended family members to participate in the program with their children to help them use Mindfulness in many different situations they encounter daily, such as getting along better with family members, dealing with disappointment, and using technology wisely.

About the author

Catherine DePino, Ed.D., has written many bully prevention books for children, teachers, and parents, grammar/writing books, and a retirement book for women, and spiritual books for teenagers. For many years, she served as an English teacher, department head, and disciplinarian in the Philadelphia School District, and as a student teaching supervisor for Temple University. Visit her website for more information at www.catherinedepino.com