This is a guest post by Emily Thompson, Cyber Safety Consultant at KidGuard What is Cyberbullying? Bullying. It’s a difficult topic to think about, and can be just as difficult to discuss with your child. As a mother, you care about your child’s safety before anything else. The trouble is that in today’s increasingly online… {read more}
Simple Activities To Help Toddlers Develop Mindfulness
Today I’m excited to welcome Jennifer Landis of Mindfulness Mama to share some tips about how to help toddlers develop mindfulnes. Enjoy!! — Chelsea Learning to be mindful is a great way to help you deal with the stresses in your life, but it’s not normally the kind of thing you think to teach toddlers and small… {read more}
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: Teaching Non-Judgementalism
In part one of this series, I introduced the concept of mindfulness. In part two, we talked about how to focus our awareness. In this post, we see how mindfulness is the focus of awareness in the present moment without judgement. This takes a lot of practice. We have been taught our whole lives to judge… {read more}
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: How to Focus Awareness
Mindfulness can assist us to pay more attention to our everyday life. In part one of this series, I shared what mindfulness is and how I apply it as a therapist using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. I also gave an exercise that can explain the concept of mindfulness to children. The following exercise shows us that when… {read more}
Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: The Concept of Mindfulness
Mindfulness has a lot of different meanings. As a Therapist, I find that Mindfulness is a very useful strategy to focus awareness on the current moment without judgement. This is very useful for kids to learn and parents to practice. In this three-part series I will describe the different parts of mindfulness as I learned… {read more}
4 Ways To Foster Family Connection With a Camera
This is a guest post by Beryl Ayn Young. “Family Hugs!!!” I shout the words and am immediately embraced by the two people in the world that matter most. The ones who center and ground me, and bring me back home… always. We try to begin each weekend morning with hugs (and a heaping cup… {read more}
7 Challenges Faced by Multicultural Families
This is a guest post written by Leanna of All Done Monkey. Multicultural families face challenges similar to other families: What values do we want to pass on to our children? What traditions do we want to teach them? How can we give them the best education? What role will extended family play in our… {read more}
Our Journey Through Adoption
This is a guest post by Becky Morales of Kid World Citizen. My two 4 year olds sat giggling in the cart while I checked out at Target. “Oh cute, are they twins?” I looked at the cashier, and then glanced at my kids: my daughter, Mexican-American, and my son, Ethiopian. “No, they’re a month… {read more}
