Five ways to raise kind children; a re-post from the Half Full blog

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by Christine Carter on March 8, 2010

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Is your teenager grouchy? Does your little one have a cold? Research shows that kindness is a sure route to greater happiness and, in some cases, improved health. (See posting, What You Get When You Give from my blog, Half Full, for more about this.)

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From discipline to self-discipline

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by New York Times Family Column on March 4, 2010

The goal of parental discipline is to help a child rely on his own motivation — to control his impulses, manage his emotions, respect the needs, feelings and rights of others, and “do the right thing” for its own sake.

   A child who believes in himself can dare to face his mistakes. Gradually he must learn to accept them and feel satisfaction when he corrects them. Praise helps, but it must lead a child to find his own pride in his behavior.

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Character Corner 6: Common Sense — musings, quotes, and parenting tips from WisdomCommons.org

by Valerie March 3, 2010
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Josie, who is in the fifth grade, spends the afternoon with her neighbor Debbie, who is a year older.  Other girls join them.  That evening, Josie shows her mom a round red mark on her arm and confesses that she let the older girl touch her arm with a hot spoon as a secret initiation [...]

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The challenge of mindfulness for Mothers

by Mara Applebaum February 28, 2010
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Modern women still feel the centuries of social command to be selfless and all sacrificing for the sake of their children.
Yet mindfulness is impossible without a sense of oneself. Earlier generations of women — our own mothers and grandmothers — had fewer opportunities to develop their own identities or to even know how they really [...]

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Character Corner: Citizenship – weekly musings, quotes and parenting tips from WisdomCommons.org

by Valerie February 25, 2010
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Thirteen year old Katherine resents having to pick up and vacuum the basement playroom every Saturday morning.  She protests that she doesn’t even spend time down there – that all of the clutter and dirt are from her younger sisters, Jill and Jennifer. 
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A child therapist’s view on Mindful Parenting

by Jason Goldstein February 24, 2010
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A child needs to be met and held.
In my work with children, my focus is to empathically recognize these needs of the child. This includes the need for validation of a child’s affective or emotional experience, the need to be admired, and the need for soothing.
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Review of NY Times Article.com; Empathy’s Natural, but Nurturing it Helps

by Wendie Bramwell February 22, 2010
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The natural empathy that Jane Brody refers to (Empathy’s Natural, but Nurturing it Helps) is often evident in children and adults when they interact with an infant.
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“Where did I come from?”

by New York Times Family Column February 21, 2010
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Question: My older daughter was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization). Shortly after her birth I began wondering when she might ask the inevitable question, “Where did I come from?” What would you say?
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Reflections on The Mindful Brain written by Daniel Siegel

by admin February 18, 2010
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Welcome to a journey into the heart of our lives. Being mindfully aware, attending to the richness of our experiences, creates scientifically recognized enhancements in our physiology, our mental functions, and our interpersonal relationships. Being fully present in our awareness opens our lives to new possibilities of well-being.
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Toddler resists naps

by New York Times Family Column February 17, 2010
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Question: My 3-year-old son now resists a nap until late afternoon. Of course that affects his behavior. (We also have a 5-month-old baby boy, which is part of the problem.)
If our 3-year-old eventually puts himself down for a nap in late afternoon, bedtime is a nightmare.
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Character Corner: Acceptance — weekly musings, quotes, and parenting tips from WisdomCommons.org

by Valerie February 16, 2010
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Ten year old Janie discovered a lump on her guinea pig, Panda.   She showed her mother, Ann, and they took the guinea pig to the vet, who told them that it might or might not be cancer and that surgery would cost $600. 
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Calling all Dads

by Dr. Amy Lundgren February 13, 2010
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Don’t miss the lovely article in Mothering (January-February 2010) by Seattle’s own Clint Kelly.  Entitled Dad’s Golden Hour, it is a heart-felt valentine to the joys of reading aloud to your children. 
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Compassion in action

by Yaffa Maritz February 10, 2010
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In a previous post (Getting through giving) I discussed how giving, rather than getting is key to our well being both as individuals and as a society.  Since then, it seems that everywhere I look, I see the emerging  trend of communities  coming together to celebrate the art of collaboration, support and compassion.
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Peering in

by Thoughts from a Mindful Mom February 9, 2010
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Yesterday I watched the Superbowl.
This doesn’t sound like a big deal—me and millions of other Americans, right?  Wrong.  I have hated watching sports for most of my life.  As a kid, I whined so much on Sundays that there was nothing to watch it’s a wonder I don’t recall upsetting my parents.  In those pre-cable, [...]

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A child’s ‘big emotions’

by New York Times Family Column February 8, 2010
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Question: How do I help an almost-6-year-old learn to handle disappointment and frustration?
This is a child with big emotions, both positive and negative. Nearly every time he doesn’t get his way, he instantly gives in to his impulse to stomp, throw something, cry, scream, and sometimes hit and push.
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Mindful Food Selection

by Beverly Pressey February 5, 2010
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As mindful parents, I imagine that you have tried to decipher a nutrition label on a food package in order to determine if the product was healthy or not.  Odds are that after studying this label you were still unsure.  You may be unsure because most consumers in the United States don’t have a visual [...]

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Learning to walk

by New York Times Family Column January 29, 2010
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At about 12 months, as a child focuses her energy on the big developmental step of learning to walk, her emotional controls may be disrupted.
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The writing is on the wall

by Thoughts from a Mindful Mom January 28, 2010
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Today was ‘one of those days’.  The children were home from school and my two year old decided that he didn’t need a nap.  I willed his sleep to come.  I sat by his door – I walked away.  The sleep did not come.  After some time I gave up and let him come out.  [...]

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