Moving from Scattered to Centred
"Sunflowers end up facing the sun, but they go through a lot of dirt to find their way there.” — J.R. Rim Lately, I’ve been thinking...
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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...
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...
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...
Mindfulness for the Family
Ah! Summer… it’s finally here. And it feels so good. Summer has always symbolized “freedom” from schedules for me. Summer schedules can...
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...
Do You Have a "Chore-Resistant" Family?
What you resist - persists. C.G. Jung There are days when I can't seem to get motivated about doing housework — cleaning up, organizing,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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