December 2009

Listening Mothers

Reflective Parenting

What is Mindfulness?

“[Mindful Parenting is when]…parents intentionally bring moment-to-moment awareness to the parent-child relationship. This is done by developing the qualities of listening with full attention when interacting with their children, cultivating emotional awareness and self-regulation in parenting, and bringing compassion and nonjudgmental acceptance to their parenting interactions…[…this allows] parents to stop and fundamentally shift their awareness in order to view their present-moment parenting experience within the context of the long-term relationship that they have with their child, as well as attend to their child’s needs, while exercising self-regulation and wise choice in their actions.” **Written by Larissa Duncan (Duncan, Coatsworth and Greenberg May 2009)**