Like the meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg, notes in Faith, our personal view of things can be like 'Looking at the sky through a straw.' Our thoughts abou...

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that that they are worthwhile. Fred Rogers When we look back upon our own...

Homeschool mindfulness, for me, is the ability to allow learning to happen in the moment. It’s about letting go of control and trusting that your children wi...

It's that time of year again! Soon the leaves will be falling, and the days will get colder, shorter and darker. For many of us, it's a favourite time of yea...

What you resist - persists. C.G. Jung There are days when I just can't seem to get motivated about doing housework — cleaning up, organizing, laundry, and so...

First, let's look at what stress is and where it comes from: everyday things like traffic noise, or rare events like illness or divorce (called stressors). S...

Ah!  Summer… it’s finally here. And it feels so good. Summer has always symbolized “freedom” from schedules for me. But summer can also get very busy, very f...

When you teach kids … how to recognize their feelings, understand where they come from and learn how to deal with them, you teach them the most essential ski...

As we learned in Part 1, "Mindfulness Classes for 6 to 8-Year-Olds: Tips for Getting Started," we can cultivate in our children present-moment awareness (min...

I'm currently teaching mindfulness to children aged 6 to 8, and find that teaching mindfulness to young kids is so rewarding because they teach me as much as...

"He started it!" "Did not!" "Did too!" Conflict and conflicting opinions are a part of life, and younger kids may have an exchange similar to the one above. ...

From around the ages of 12 to 24, adolescents experience an immense amount of growth and maturation. It is a time of stress, change, and upheaval as they nav...

Kristin Neff, a well-known researcher in mindfulness and psychology makes the following distinction between self-esteem and self-compassion: Whereas self-est...

When you drive around the city and come to a red light or a stop sign, you can just sit back and make use of these twenty or thirty seconds to relax — to bre...

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are...

On this lovely spring day, imagine a classroom full of (usually) rambunctious 6-year-olds sitting quietly on the floor, eyes closed, breathing slowly, listen...