Mindful Parenting
Multitasking is considered a skill that many people pride themselves on especially when it comes to parenting one of the hardest most challenging roles in life.
Mindful parenting. Do a daily mindfulness practice. Its about accepting whatever is going on rather than trying to change it or ignore it. Mindfulness is about letting go of guilt and shame about the past and focusing on right now. In this interview from 10 happier mindfulness teacher alexis santos offers four tips to cultivate a practice of mindful parenting.
So the understanding and acceptance of emotions. Mindful parenting understands the realities of raising a family in our fast paced and often frenetic world and provides hundreds of easy to implement solutions both for parents and their children to help them manage stress create peace and live happier lives. Use the sbnrr technique to handle stressful moments mindfully. For example mindful parenting may improve the parents relationship with their partner which another study by parent suggests and that may account for positive coping in children.
Mindful parenting these 8 mindful parenting exercises help parents develop self compassion. Breathe interest into your routine our attention is habitually attracted to peak moments moments that seem pleasant fun or exciting. Here are some tips to get started on mindful parenting. It could also be true that the relationship is reversed meaning that problematic behavior from children impacts a parents ability to parent more mindfully.
Instead of allowing your emotions to dictate your response to a situation for example your child took a rock to your cars exterior youre able to be aware of your thoughts and emotions and respond in an appropriate manner. Researchers recently uncovered a link to decision making and emotional regulation. The problem is that when we multitask rather than learning to do lots of things at once really well we simply learn to do lots of things at once not nearly as well as we could. For kids mindful parenting may help with social decision making.
Also includes the 5 as to mindful loving and the sbnrr mindful techniques. Mindful parenting means that you bring your conscious attention to whats happening instead of getting hijacked by your emotions. Mindful parenting also teaches parents to become less reactive to the trials and tribulations of parenting.