Learn how practicing mindfulness helps children with anxiety. Mindfulness is the ability to focus on the present moment while allowing yourself to experience emotions, thoughts and sensations as they develop. It’s important not to try to control your experience when practicing mindfulness. Instead, allowing thoughts and feelings to run their course teaches you to become more comfortable in the stillness. Breathing techniques, meditation and positive affirmation exercises are all helpful components of practicing mindfulness.

How mindfulness can become a useful part of your child’s mental-health toolkit. Parents shouldn’t be intimidated by conversations about how to manage childhood anxiety. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that anxiety is a problem that needs to be fixed. In reality, anxiety is a very expected, everyday part of the human experience that can be managed.