Thinking about joining my upcoming Mindfulness Skills for Parenting Workshop in Tokyo? Wondering how you might put the skills you gain to use?
Here are a few highlights of how becoming more mindful has made a difference in my life with kids.
Top 10 Mindfulness-Saved-Me Moments in Parenting
- When shopping for 2 hours in the same store while trying to breast feed, change diapers and keep my 3 month old from crying.
- While straddling my kicking and screaming toddler so that I could brush his teeth.
- When sitting in a chair rocking and rocking and rocking for hours hoping the baby would fall asleep.
- When they have a really bad day. When I have a really bad day.
- When my child says, “Let’s run!” “Let’s race!” “Let’s play cars!” for the one hundredth time that day.
- When my child says, “You’re my favorite person in the world mommy. Will you be with me forever?”
- When my son almost died in a foreign country.
- When my husband doesn’t do it the “right” way…or when I don’t.
- When they say, “I wish we just stayed in one place,” and when they say, “I hope we do this forever.”
- When the Internet tells me something I do (or do not) need to know about raising children…always.
Click on the link at top to register today! Also be sure to check out this free download of my chapter on mindfulness and parenting from Raising Kids in the Foreign Service.
