If there was a way to potentially help kids pay better attention, exercise more generosity with their peers, perform better in school, and be more aware of themselves and others, would you try it? What if it was free, relatively easy and cost only a bit of your time and focus?
Reading that, it sounds too good to be true. But a recent study from researchers as the UW-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, founded by Richie Davidson, shows that it may very well be that simple. Davidson and his colleagues at CIHM developed what they call the Kindness Curriculum for preschoolers, which Davidson himself discussed with the Huffington Post at the Davos World Economic Forum today (around the 5-minute mark; but listen to the whole thing if you’re interested in mindfulness!).
[For more of this story, written by Kelly April Tyrrell, go to http://uwmadscience.news.wisc....-and-their-families/]
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