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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The founders of the Holistic Life Foundation share their tips for encouraging kids to be more mindful.
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By opening to our own moments of fear and self-doubt as parents, we can lighten the pressure on ourselves to always get it right—which lets us show up for our kids in profound ways.
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Back to school means lots of change this year. Here are a few ways to help kids build their capacity to be resilient, adaptable, and grounded through the transition.
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If your adult child has stopped communicating, and their love seems to be long gone, don’t lose hope. Tina Gilbertson writes that a key step in healing estrangement occurs when parents bring empathy and compassion to the forefront of this fractured relationship.
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Help your children navigate difficulty with these three science-backed ways to teach them to connect with their instinctual capacity for compassion.
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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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Along with newer children’s books about mindfulness, many beloved picture books also offer mindful messages about kindness, friendship, and contemplating the world around us. Here are a few of our favorites.
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A growing number of books for kids explore mindfulness themes like focusing on the breath, self-acceptance, and self-compassion. Here are three new books worthy of your library.
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What we wish most for our children is that they may be happy. When facing times of crisis, or simply life’s regular ups and downs, what can we do to support our children’s search for sustainable happiness?
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