Mindful Parenting is a contemplative practice through which we become more mindful of our children and, in doing so, experience a more joyful life.
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The Morning Sip: Lights,
Camera, Blink
We can think of each time we blink as if we are taking
a picture. Indeed, the shutter of a camera is similar to our
eyelids. Blink -- another picture! But what of the pictures
we take with our eyes throughout the day? Are they simply
erased? If we are not paying attention, then that is a likely
scenario.
Today, take five pictures of your child. Take
them with awareness of what you are doing ("I'm taking a picture")
-- of who is the subject ("my beautiful child") -- and
of why you are doing it ("to have a lingering recollection of the
moment"). Each of the five times you blink, listen for
the sound of your eye lids "shutter" closing and opening
as the image of your child is stored permanently in your heart.
When
we mindfully interact with our child in this way, we move a little
closer to really seeing them.
Today's Morning Sip originally
appeared on April 29, 2004, and can be found, along with others, in
the Morning Cup Archives.