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The authors investigate the claim that thin slices of expressive behavior serve as reliable indicators of affective style in children and their families. Using photographs, the authors assessed smile intensity and tactile contact in kindergartners and their families. Consistent with claims that smiling and touch communicate positive emotion, measures of children’s smile intensity and warm family touch were correlated across classroom and family contexts. Consistent with studies of parent–child personality associations, parents ’ warm smiles and negative facial displays resembled those of their children. Finally, consistent with observed relations between adult personality and positive display, children’s smiling behavior in the classroom correlated with parent ratings of children’s Extraversion/Surgency. These results highlight the utility of thin slices of smiling and touch as indicators of child and family affective style.
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More and more, yoga is becoming a popular pastime for children and a part of many a school’s gym curriculum. With its colorful and plentiful photographs of smiling kids obviously enjoying their workout, this guide will prove irresistible to parents and teachers hoping to create an entertaining practice for youngsters. The key is turning the exercises into play: for example, animal poses where kids stretch like a cat or think of their legs as butterfly wings have instant appeal. A variety of tips, such as inventing stories to stimulate children’s imaginations as they master the positions, help instructors turn the yoga room into a joyful place. Group asanas give students a wonderful chance to bond and interact with others-and increase coordination too. Breath control, dynamic yoga, chanting: every facet of yoga is made fun.

In this interview, Alison Crowley talks about how she used to be dancer and an actress. Due to a series of injuries, she discovered yoga as a way to help her heal. She eventually completed several yoga and yoga therapy courses which brought her to her current business as a yoga therapist.Alison has been able to convince several hospitals in Los Angeles to offer yoga classes for women cancer survivors. She also sees clients privately for yoga therapy. Alison shares how important these yoga classes are for the women and how they facilitate a strong sense of community. Alison’s business goes to show how you can be a trail blazer and be successful at a business that is desperately needed, but no one else is doing. I hope you are as inspired by Alison’s work as I am.

"Yoga Fun" introduces children to yoga in a fun, playful, and safe way. Yoga teacher and mother Juliet Pegrum shows how children from the age of three can enjoy the benefits of many classic yoga poses, which promote flexibility, strength, concentration, good posture and self-confidence. All kids will love yoga's famous Animal Poses, from the cat and lion to the downward dog, and the chapter on Object Poses is great fun, too - do the teapot, be a boat, table or chair, or master that Lotus position. The Dynamic Poses are good for older children, helping them to build balance and strength, while Group Poses encourage more interaction, from two children making a wheelbarrow to a little group holding hands with toes together to create the blossoming Lotus pose. Also included are special chapters on breathing, music, visualization and relaxation, along with a workout section with sequences of poses for children of 3-6 and 7-11 years. There is also a vitalizing workout sequence to help kids expend some of that surplus energy, plus a workout for tranquility and relaxation. Illustrated throughout with more than 200 colour photographs, "Yoga Fun" is packed full of fun techniques they will love to learn.