Community of Mindful Parents

Listening Mothers facilitator, Gigi Wickwire and Fred Ingham, CMP blog contributor spoke with Bill Radke this past week on the ‘hot topic’ attachment parenting and what it means to them.  What does it mean to you?   More audio at MyNorthwest.com

JDS parent, Kara Moscovitz, a school psychologist, and Lynne Brazg, a certified school counselor, have teamed up to offer a class entitled Reflective Parenting: Discipline from the Heart.  Classes will run Tuesday mornings from 10-12 at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle in Bellevue, in the Development Conference Room.  On Tuesday, April 24th a FREE introductory session will [...]

This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’sblog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website.   Is there too much stress in your life? To find out, take this quiz, adapted from a scale developed by Peter Lovibond at the University of New South Wales. For the first 16 questions, please indicate [...]

Ever noticed how scientific opinions swing from one extreme to the other? Take the importance of mothers in the development of children. In the early days of psychiatry almost every mental illness, from depression to schizophrenia to autism was blamed on bad mothering. Then in the 1960’s and 70’s the discovery of medications that helped [...]

This post has been reprinted with permission from the Grow Parenting blog.  Click on link to read more from my blog and about Grow Parenting This post is the third in a three part series on long-term parenting. The first post explored the idea of long-term parenting and the second post offered tools for widening your parenting lens. Today’s [...]

The Community of Mindful Parents Mindful Media Reviewer Fred Ingham Mindful father, Fred Ingham, will be keeping us up to date with the latest and greatest books, local events, and films. He will share with us his thoughtful insight and parental perspective as we navigate all of the parenting advice the media directs our way [...]

Saturday, March 3, 2012  from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm will be the 6th annual Seattle infant conference.  The conference will be featuring keynote speakers Janet Lansbury and Debra R. Sullivan, Ed. D along with our very own Clinical Director, Yaffa Maritz.  The conference will take place at Seattle Children’s Administrative Building (6901 Sandpoint Way [...]

You can read more of my articles at my blog and at Grow Parenting This is the second of a three-part series on long-term parenting. See the first post. Here’s a great activity from Positive Discipline for helping you get clear on what your own bigger picture looks like. Sit down by yourself or with your co-parent and make [...]

The Community of Mindful Parents Welcome  Mindful Media Reviewer Fred Ingham The Community of Mindful Parents is thrilled to announce a new feature to our online community – the Mindful Media Review. The author, Fred Ingham, (pictured) will be keeping us up to date with the latest and greatest books, local events, and films. Fred [...]

This article is reprinted from Christine Carter’sblog about raising happy kids, which can be found on the Greater Good Magazine website. Trying to get into some new habits in this New Year?  Here is a “game changer in our arsenal of parenting tools,” as Lindsay calls it: how to ask your kids to do something [...]

Despite all the good cheer surrounding the holiday season, the end of the year can be a stressful time. As delightful as the holidays are for some, they can be times of emotional and physical exhaustion for others, and it’s easy to become overwhelmed, stressed and exhausted. So if you are struggling to keep up with your to-do [...]

See full article at npr.org Children’s temper tantrums are widely seen as many things: the cause of profound helplessness among parents; a source of dread for airline passengers stuck next to a young family; a nightmare for teachers. But until recently, they had not been considered a legitimate subject for science. Now research suggests that, [...]

This article is reprinted fromChristine Carter’sblog about raising happy kids, which can be found on theGreater Good Magazine website.   “Abundance can be had simply by consciously receiving what has already been given.” —Sufi Saying As a “happiness expert” (as I’m sometimes called), people often ask me, “If you had to pick just one thing [...]

This article has been reprinted with permission from ConsciousMoms.org   There are few easy answers in parenting. Everything is personal. So much depends on context, on the particular child you’re parenting, on you and the kind of family you want to create, among so many other variables. But there are often a multitude of sources [...]