Mindfulness for children of all ages

SRFrench — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:23:44 +0000

I am a HUGE fan of mindfulness, and especially for all kids. Mindfulness is purposely being aware, in the present, without judgement, cultivating aliveness and connection to all experiences, people, events, circumstances and ourselves. It encompasses all aspects of our “be”-ing. I truly believe it is one of the necessary skills a child should learn by example and practice enabling them to create their own wonderful life. After visiting my grandchildren yesterday, I was inspired to find something for them, and for all children. I searched for a video children can use a tool, giving them information, giving them the “what and how” of mindfulness in brief, but very impactful at the same time. I found this video , Mindfulness In Action, by Sherry-Lynne Kirschner , which actually brought tears to my eyes. It may not create tears for you, but just seeing how children learning mindfulness can make their lives so much more joyful, is amazing. View Mindfulness in Action, and Let your children view this video often to give them a taste of what mindfulness is and how it can help them. I hope you, and all of your children of all ages, enjoy and learn from this video. There is a plethora of additional information available about mindfulness online and offline, so don’t hesitate to find our more, or contact me if you like with your questions. Your comments/likes/sharing of this blog post, and subscribing to my blog, are super-appreciated!To all of the children: I love you and want to help you all become wonderful creators!

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When your kids lie

SRFrench — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:06:36 +0000

When your kids lie, how does it make you feel? How do you respond as the parent? Our response is based on our own beliefs, experiences, subconscious programs that we formed at an early age. Your child’s response is based on their own beliefs, experiences, subconscious programs that they have formed from an early age. What is the best way to deal with lying? Tell your kids, “Don’t lie to me?” What that does, is trigger an automatic response from your child. Fear, remembering what has happened in the past when they lied. If past experiences told them that they only got in trouble for telling a lie, will they want to be honest? As parents, one of the first things we need to look at is our own responses to situations and events. What is our subconscious programming causing us to do? How can we respond differently and create a new habit, new subconscious programming that works for us instead of against us? Here is a video from postinstitute.com that can be extremely helpful in how you respond to your child’s lies, and explains how to respond instead, that will help them to change the limiting beliefs that they have about what happens to them when they do lie to you. Practicing the technique in this video, over and over, until it becomes automatic (you are on autopilot), will enable your parenting skills to improve dramatically in these situations.

Here’s to beginning to end our children’s lying, and improving our parenting!

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Mindfulness for children of all ages

When your kids lie