by Carla Naumburg | Jun 17, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“The time away reminded me of a valuable parenting lesson: in orderto be present with my children and tuned in to them (as well as myself), I need to find ways to turn off my mental list of everything I “need” to get done, if only for a few minutes at a time....
by Carla Naumburg | Jun 13, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“My daughter is dealing with a lot of changes right now. Her baby sister is potty-training, which is shaking up the family dynamic. Pre-school is ending for the year, and my daughter is saying good-bye to a teacher she adores and a number of her best friends who...
by Carla Naumburg | Jun 11, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“The ideas of mindful parenting and mindfulness can get all tangled up in more specific words and theories about parenting and meditation and how should we respond to tantrums and whether or not we should use our smartphones around the kids. While those are all...
by Carla Naumburg | Jun 5, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“Ask any mindfulness practitioner (even the experts, who will likely be the first to tell you that there’s no such thing as an expert in mindfulness) and they will tell you that none of us can be mindful all of the time. It’s not about being some super calm zen...
by Carla Naumburg | May 29, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“Despite how hard it is, mindfulness is precisely what is needed for successful potty training. We need to pay careful attention to our children and the signs they might be giving us that they need to go to the bathroom. (My little girl tends to get very quiet...
by Carla Naumburg | May 24, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“To be honest, though, I had always thought that mindfulness was going to require more effort in my parenting. I worried that all of that awareness, all of that figuring out what is going on inside my crazy mind (as well as my daughters’ minds!) was going to be...
