Q: Looking for experience and advice helping my daughter, Maya (5.5), through her frustration in learning new skills. We usually wait for her to ask to learn to do something, especially physical skills (ride a scooter, do a somersault, etc.) and shoe tying wasn’t really on our radar because her two favorite pairs of shoesContinue reading “Helping Your Child Through Shoe-Tying…and Life”
Category Archives: Emotional Development
The Real Lesson in the Tantrum
Mindful parenting through children’s big emotional outbursts.
10 Thoughts on Bringing Mindfulness Into Your Home
Sharing mindfulness with your children and watch the ripple effects in both of your lives.
Archaeology of Parenting: Unearthing Yourself
Your essence is the most authentic, honest, real version of you. Over years of development it often gets built over with other’s stories of who you are (or who they want/need you to be)–good or bad–but not essential truths of who you are on the most elemental level. Eroding those stories we were told were your identity is a difficult but essential part of raising one’s own conscious awareness.
Confronting Independence
Everyone grows up with some level of attachment to our parents. In order to be able to have a healthy attachment to your child-which has multitudes of short term and long term health benefits to you both, one must be able to honestly assess their own emotional bond to their parents. One must ask, how did my parents do at keeping me safe, seen, secure and soothed?
Practicing Mindfulness With Your Kids-Breath
Sharing a mindfulness journey with your kids may help them learn to self-regulate and concentrate better. These resources will help you begin the journey focusing on the breath.
Helping Little Kids Through Big Emotions
What parents need to know about dealing with tantrums and other “big” emotions in their kids and the bigger lesson they need to learn–for themselves and their kids!
Conscious Grandparenting: An Interview
A parents job is never really over and how you approach those moments of connection, even with your adult children, really makes a difference. This interview explores one Conscious grandmothers journey to become more awakened.
Introduction to Mindfulness for Parents and Other Educators
A short and sweet introduction to the power of presence in your own life by cultivating the art, and understanding the science, of mindfulness.
Helping Your Child Through Bold Anger: Crisis Management 101
The goal of any intervention is for the child to come away empowered and better able to self-regulate and solve problems without adult help. What one does not want to happen is for a power struggle to ensue.
Emily Rittenberg, Licensed Mental Health Counselor 