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Mindful Parenting: Meet Your Inner Critic with Self-Compassion
With mindfulness practice, we can learn how to unhook from rumination and increase clarity and ease of being by cutting ourselves (and our kids) some slack.
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Kids
Mindful Parenting: 5 Tools to Set Healthy Limits for Your Child
While emphasizing structure for your child may not always feel good as a parent, doing so has profound value for kids’ development. Mark Bertin, pediatrician and author of How Children Thrive, explains how to create nurturing boundaries.
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7 Mindful Parenting Lessons for the Pandemic
The responsibility to hold it all together for your family is a heavy one to carry, no matter what, but it’s lightened by allowing compassion and acceptance to shine brighter than ever.
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Mindful Parenting: Give Yourself Space to Choose to Respond
Putting space between you and your reaction allows you to respond with kindness—both to your children, and to other parents.
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Well-Being
The Power of Gratitude in Parenting
Boredom, confusion, frustration—the attentional demands of parenting may grate on us at times. Use this handy mindful checklist to connect with gratitude during difficult parenting moments.
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Manage Big Parenting Feelings Before They Manage You
Huge parenting misnomer: we need to protect our kids from our negative feelings. The truth: it’s easier to lose control when we’re focused on stopping our emotions. Carla Naumburg explores seven practices to help you build resilience during tense parenting moments.
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4 Strategies for Mindful Parenting
Tips to keep your sanity and enjoy your time as a (mindful) parent.
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5 Mindful Tips for Parenting Conundrums
Explore how mindfulness can help you enjoy your family time instead of being anxious or easily provoked by your children into unhelpful reactions.
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Mindfulness Research
How Mindful Parenting Differs From Just Being Mindful
According to new research, children who experience mindful parenting are less likely to use drugs or get depression or anxiety.
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Mindfulness Research
Parenting with Presence
Reporter Susan Freinkel follows two expectant couples from their first class in mindfulness-based childbirth to the blessed (not to mention painful) event. They learn things on their journey to parenthood that can help us all navigate life’s transitions.
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