While five- to seven-year-olds get instruction in the breathing buddies exercise, from eight and up they practice mindfulness of breathing, which has proven benefits both for sustaining attention and for the circuitry that calms us down. This combination of calm and concentration creates an optimal inner state for focus and learning.
Evaluations of a one-semester version of the program found that the children who need greatest help-those at "high risk" for derailing in life-benefited the most: significant boosts in atten tion and perceptual sensitivity, and drops in aggressiveness, down beat moods, and frustration with school.2 What's more, teachers who used the program increased their sense of well-being, augur ing well for the learning atmosphere of their classrooms.
THE STOPLIGHT
In a preschool, songs play as eight three-year-olds sit at a low table, each one coloring in the thick outline of a clown. Suddenly the music stops-and so do the kids.
That moment captures a learning opportunity for any three year-old's prefrontal cortex, the site where executive functions like squelching an unruly impulse take root. One of those abilities, cog nitive control, holds a key to a well-lived life.
Stopping on cue is the holy grail of cognitive control. The bet ter children are at stopping when the music stops-or making the right move and not the wrong one while playing Simon Says-the stronger their prefrontal wiring for cognitive control becomes.
Here's a test of cognitive control. Qyick now, in what direction is th'e middle arrow pointing in each row?
While five- to seven-year-olds get instruction in the breathing buddies exercise, from eight and up they practice mindfulness of breathing, which has proven benefits both for sustaining attention and for the circuitry that calms us down. This combination of calm and concentration creates an optimal inner state for focus and learning.
Evaluations of a one-semester version of the program found that the children who need greatest help-those at "high risk" for derailing in life-benefited the most: significant boosts in atten tion and perceptual sensitivity, and drops in aggressiveness, down beat moods, and frustration with school.2 What's more, teachers who used the program increased their sense of well-being, augur ing well for the learning atmosphere of their classrooms.
THE STOPLIGHT
In a preschool, songs play as eight three-year-olds sit at a low table, each one coloring in the thick outline of a clown. Suddenly the music stops-and so do the kids.
That moment captures a learning opportunity for any three year-old's prefrontal cortex, the site where executive functions like squelching an unruly impulse take root. One of those abilities, cog nitive control, holds a key to a well-lived life.
Stopping on cue is the holy grail of cognitive control. The bet ter children are at stopping when the music stops-or making the right move and not the wrong one while playing Simon Says-the stronger their prefrontal wiring for cognitive control becomes.
Here's a test of cognitive control. Qyick now, in what direction is th'e middle arrow pointing in each row?
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