by Carla Naumburg | May 23, 2018 | Parenting, PsychCentral.com
I can’t stop thinking about the Royal Wedding. You bet your tushy we watched it. A friend came over with fascinators, homemade scones, and clotted cream. I broke a cardinal rule of parenting and woke my daughters up on a weekend morning, and we turned on the TV an...
by Carla Naumburg | Jan 22, 2017 | Mindfulness, Parenting, PsychCentral.com
Well, folks, it’s been over a year and a half since I’ve updated my blog. I could give you all the reasons, from building a new house to moving into it to writing and marketing my second book, but those are just details. The important point is that I’m back. And if...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 29, 2014 | Mindfulness, Parenting
What is mindful parenting? Mindful parenting is just about applying the skills of mindfulness to our interactions with our children. It’s about noticing when we’ve been triggered by parenting and we’re suddenly stuck in the past, perhaps in our own childhoods, or...
by Carla Naumburg | May 8, 2013 | Mindfulness, Parenting
“After my daughter was born, I had a lot of thoughts that were deeply incompatible with the kind of mother I wanted to be. I would get frustrated with my girls, wish that they would go to bed already, and fantasize about solo vacations on tropical islands. Then...
by Carla Naumburg | Dec 5, 2012 | Judaism, Parenting
“We’ll sing Hanukkah songs, and read books about counting eight nights. We’ll talk about the holiday a lot, but I’m not going to tell my girls the story of Judah the Maccabee. Not yet.” You can read the whole story over at the HuffPost...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 8, 2012 | Mindfulness, Parenting, PsychCentral.com
“What greater gift could we possibly give to our children than our presence, our full acceptance of them, whoever they are, whatever they bring?” Check out the full post on Mindful Parenting over at PsychCentral.
