Does Mindfulness Help Kids? There’s A Better Question to Ask

Does Mindfulness Help Kids? There’s A Better Question to Ask

Once a year, in a training program for clinicians at The Center for Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, my friend Chris Willard and I join a Zoom meeting to answer questions about sharing mindfulness with children. This year, a new question kept coming up: Does mindfulness really help kids? We’re hearing that the research says it doesn’t. It’s a fair question. After decades of small studies with promising results, two large, school-based studies — one …