Ways to Bring More Mindfulness Into Your Days
This post is an excerpt from my free e-book Practicing Peace, and is shared here as part of the Natural Parents Network How-to Blog Blitz. Enjoy! photo credit Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves. —Thich Nhat Hanh Perhaps you’ve heard about how our brain works. That when we’re triggered emotionally, [...]
Attending to the Moment
I heard the tell-tale sounds from upstairs and could easily envision the scene: a child on each side of the bedroom door, pushing and pulling, simultaneously reinforcing and fighting the barrier between them. Orlando wanted privacy and Mica wanted to be with Orlando. Isn’t that always what it is? Two people who want different things? [...]
It Moves
This is Mica. He was a few months old — five? — in this photo. I remember that time so clearly, he had emerged from the didymos wrapped against my chest and was lying around on the ground, atop the sheep’s skin, amid the patterns of the quilt made by my mother, just for [...]
Bridge
Orlando and his friend jumped up from the couch, clamored up the stairs, chanting behind them, “Let’s run from Mica! Let’s run from Mica!” I turned around to see Mica jumping over the back of the couch but slipping and landing on his face. Take a breath, Mama. I went over to Mica as he [...]
Now at 8
Our bedtimes totally unraveled earlier this year. What seemed to have become a pretty straight-forward Brush Teeth and Get in Bed for a Story with Papa turned into mayhem, with Papa snoring in bed as two kids prowled the house searching for Mama, who was hiding out with a book. It was late, and I [...]
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