The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine recently released a report that shows a significant number of children doing yoga, practicing meditation, and doing deep-breathing exercises. Children under 18 are also taking more supplements such as probiotics, echinacea and fish oil.
The NYTimes reports, "The single most influential factor driving children’s adoption of alternative therapies appears to be whether their parents also use them. Children whose parents or relatives use alternative therapies are five times more likely to use them than children whose parents do not.
I like the idea of kids learning yoga and meditation tools early in life (though I'm less sure about parents applying their own alternative remedies to their kids). We're not talking a spoon full of cod liver oil and a run around a frozen track in shorts anymore.
Read the article here.