Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast and this is episode number six.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm talking about tips on how to teach mindfulness

to children or to your kids. So let's get started.

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podcast, please feel free to share, write a review or give it a rating. All right, well let's jump

into this week's topic. So what I want to talk about today is mindfulness, specifically mindfulness

for kids. I have a six-year-old, three-year-old, and a four-month-old. And the topic of mindfulness is

something that has recently become kind of a routine at night with my kids. And I wanted to share

some of the tips and things that have worked for us to start talking about mindfulness. And I say

mindfulness as a topic, not really as a word. My six-year-old doesn't know what the word mindfulness

means. We don't talk about the word mindfulness, but we have specific routines or exercises that

we've been doing that involve mindfulness with the ultimate goal of helping him to become mindful

without necessarily telling him, hey, this is what mindfulness is because young kids don't really

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