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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing. I would love if my kid's school taught meditation. She does a little bit in her kid's yoga class and I think it's good. There are always breathing awareness exercises at the end of my barre class, and I find it very useful.

Meditation is not a religious belief or practice. People from many religions do a form of meditation as part of their practice (including Buddhists, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, and even secular Humanists), but there is not a religion based on solely on the idea of meditation. If a school teaches breathing exercises and thought detachment without any spiritual component, I can't see any court I've ever encountered ruling that this is a violation of separation of church and state.

Though OP is making a compelling argument as to why, if a school is teaching meditation as part of its curriculum, it's would be a good idea to instead call it something like "Nervous System Calming and Breathing Awareness." Which is actually what it is. People freak out about anything that reminds them, personally, of religion, even if it's not religious.[/quote]

If parents are fine with their kids meditating, even though it may be a religious practice different from their own, that’s fine with me. They ought to have the choice though.

However, I may prefer my kid to pray in order to relax. I would really prefer the kid to play a lot and then be exhausted and have no need for meditation or adderall.

The origin of meditation is very important. It is a component of a religion and is being secularized, but so can be done with prayer. We can pray to the universe instead of god. There have been countless studies on the benefits of prayer.

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