8 Ways to Help Children Grow A Mindfulness Practice By Andrea Dorn, MSW Mindfulness is an incredibly important life skill making its way into homes, schools, and therapy offices across the world—and for good reason! It is a crucial skill to learn in order to develop inner peace, joy, gratitude, and social-emotional skills, like self-regulation, decision-making, and impulse control. But what is mindfulness? A widely accepted definition of mindfulness is offered by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, which is the “awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.” This definition simplifies and makes mindfulness more accessible to adults, but how do you introduce such an important, yet…