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3 min

Being Mindful with the Children in Your Life Improves Their Confidence and Self-Esteem

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

Shahin Najak

3 min

Mindful Learning: Lifelong Skills for Teachers and Learners

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 lo...

Shahin Najak

3 min

3 Tips for Mindful Homeschoolers

Homeschool mindfulness, for me, is the ability to allow learning to happen in the moment. It’s about letting go of control and trusting t...

Shahin Najak

5 min

10 Back-to-school Tips for the Mindful Parent

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 f...

Shahin Najak

4 min

Do You Have a "Chore-Resistant" Family?

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

Shahin Najak

3 min

Mindfulness Stress Reduction Tips for Moms and Dads

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 (...

Shahin Najak

3 min

Mindfulness for the Family

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

Shahin Najak

4 min

Mindfulness Training: Developing Emotional Literacy in Young Kids

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

Shahin Najak

4 min

Mindfulness Classes for 6 to 8-Year-Olds, Part 2: More Mindful Games

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-m...

Shahin Najak

3 min

Mindfulness Classes for 6 to 8-Year-Olds: Tips for Getting Started

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

Shahin Najak

4 min

Mindful Conflict Resolution Tips for Kids, Teens and Parents

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

Shahin Najak

4 min

The Teenage Brain: What Parents and Teens Need to Know

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 ...

Shahin Najak

2 min

Can Mindfulness and MBSR Training Enhance Self-Esteem?

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

Shahin Najak

4 min

MBSR for the Stressed and Busy Mom : 10 Easy Mindfulness Tips You Can Use Right Now

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 secon...

Shahin Najak

3 min

Raising Mindful Children, Part 2: Applying Mindfulness

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 coll...

Shahin Najak

2 min

Raising Mindful Children, Part 1: For Parents and Teachers

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

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