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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The author mentioned that her son realized that some of the daily routines she implemented, which she later wrote about in this book, were actually mindfulness practices.
When my, with the first book I wrote the Mindful Child came out, my son was in middle school or high school at the time and one of the teachers asked him, hey did you practice mindfulness as a kid? No...
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The author mentioned that her son realized that some of the daily routines she implemented, which she later wrote about in this book, were actually mindfulness practices.
When my, with the first book I wrote the Mindful Child came out, my son was in middle school or high school at the time and one of the teachers asked him, hey did you practice mindfulness as a kid? No, absolutely not. She said well did you stop at the door and take a couple deep breaths before leaving? He said yeah and did you do this and did you do that? And he came home and he said mom I had no idea that that stuff was mindfulness.