{"id":237,"date":"2000-11-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/15\/2000-11-15-don-t-call-it-yoga-but-relaxation-techniques-work-for-school-kids\/"},"modified":"2000-11-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-15T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-15-don-t-call-it-yoga-but-relaxation-techniques-work-for-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/15\/2000-11-15-don-t-call-it-yoga-but-relaxation-techniques-work-for-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Call It Yoga, But Relaxation Techniques Work For School Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Boston Globe, November 9, 2000<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Schools faced with stressed-out children are introducing relaxation breaks using positive mental imagery (best for girls), or deep breathing or muscle relaxing (works on boys). Other methods include repeating a line from a favorite song, carrying a good-luck charm, have a buddy to turn to in times of stress. &#8220;It used to be,&#8221; one educator told the Globe, &#8220;that the worst emergency teachers faced was the lights going out. Now many schools have a police presence, and all teachers are under pressure for students to perform on standardized tests. Kids are coming to school with more baggage than I&#8217;ve seen in 30 years of teaching.&#8221; Books on stress-reduction methods are available from http:\/\/www.mindbody.harvard.edu.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Boston Globe, November 9, 2000 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Schools faced with stressed-out children are introducing relaxation breaks using positive,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}