The Daily Sip:  Teach Your Child

To Slow Down And Dwell In Stillness

 

Mindful parenting is about connecting with your child.  Today's mindful parenting tip will suggest an extremely powerful, yet simple technique to connect deeply with your child.

 

All too often the time we spend with our child, regardless of whether it is enjoyable or difficult, easy or stressful, is spent in motion.  Our minds are in motion.   Our hands are in motion.  Our mouths are in motion.  It is as if the bottoms of our feet are three inches high in the air.  Today, let's touch down and experience the stillness and quiet we so often miss.

 

When you have a little quite time (or as quiet as it gets) share with your child that time goes so fast but that you know a way for it to slow down and you want to take a few moments together to slow down time and really be together.

 

Sit opposite your child, reach out each hand, and take your child's hands into yours.  Together, breathe deeply maintaining slow, full, belly breathing.  Gaze softly into your child's eyes and smile.  For the next several minutes sit quietly, gazing into each others eyes.  Just smiles -- no thoughts, no talking.  If your child is young and speaks, just smile and lovingly place your finger on your lips.  This is really your time to connect with your child. 

 

When the talking and thinking fades, you will communicate on the level of pure love. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

    

    

    

 

 

 

The Mindful Parent is an organization devoted to sharing with parents and other child caregivers ways in which to enhance the many joys of parenting.  By mindfully attending to our children, both when we are physically present with them and when we are physically separated from them, we can enhance our sense of connection to them and, in turn, our connection to the cosmos.  This makes us a better parent, a happier person, and a more vital human being.

 

To facilitate a more mindful approach to parenting, The Mindful Parent publishes on its website, and in its bi-weekly newsletter, mindful parenting verses and commentaries.  The Mindful Parent website also serves as a community forum that encourages and supports a mindful parenting dialogue and the sharing of mindful parenting experiences.

 

In the spirit of developing a mindful parenting community, we encourage you to submit a mindful parenting experience through verse, commentary, and imagery to share with others.  We believe that through our collective experience, we can help each other develop a deeper and more meaningful mindful parenting practice.  Click here to learn more about making a submssion.  We thank everyone who has contributed or is considering making this very compassionate contribution.

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