Parenting & Family

Parenting is one of the most rewarding and demanding things you'll ever do. Mindfulness can help you stay patient, present, and connected with your family - even on the days when nothing goes according to plan.
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Mindfulness For
8 Mindful Practices for Parents 

Author Karen Maezen Miller offers quick and practical guidelines for maintaining a mindfulness practice throughout your day. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Magazine
Daughter Time 

“The time of childhood is going to go fast,” says Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be. “I’m doing what I can to slow it down.” Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Creativity
The Art of Losing: On Writing, Dying, & Mom 

How do we reconcile chaos with control? Cataloging moments of poetry and disaster, novelist and essayist Ruth Ozeki makes sense of family quirks, history almost lost, and the death of parents. Read More 

  • Ruth Ozeki
  • August 24, 2010
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