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Race to Nowhere

by Community of Mindful Parents January 3, 2011
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Community of Mindful Parents will be hosting a screening and facilitated discussion of the film RACE TO NOWHERE February 10th 2011 7-9pm at the Mercer Island Stroum Jewish Community Center.  The film will run for  1 hr 25 min film followed by a 45 min panel and audience discussion. We want to educate all those involved [...]

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Online Seattle resource for parents – SeattleMommas.com

by Community of Mindful Parents November 24, 2010
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SeattleMommas.com is a parenting resource website for the Seattle and surrounding areas. Owned and operated by Jen Gay – a Seattle business owner and mother – her main goal is to create a comprehensive and user-friendly online directory for Seattle parents.

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Join local (Seattle) parenting discussion group – save $100

by Community of Mindful Parents October 4, 2010

Starting in October, the Parenting Center at the JCC along with Yaffa Maritz, founder of Listening Mothers and the Community of Mindful Parents, is going to be leading a Raising Happiness discussion and practice group for parents who are enrolled in Christine Carter’s online parenting class. Dr. Christine Carter is a happiness expert and sociologist [...]

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Community of Mindful Parents to sponsor ‘Meaningful’ event

by Community of Mindful Parents September 22, 2010

Come and see two giant figures in the field of family and well-being -  together for the first time!  John Gottman, the nation’s foremost researcher of marriage and parenting as well as Dacher Keltner, renowned professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center will present ” The [...]

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Attention Seattle Parents – this workshop will empower you!

by Community of Mindful Parents May 5, 2010
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Hey mindful parents! I am teaching a course focusing on how to cultivate compassion in children and I would love for you to attend.  This workshop is great for anyone who has an influence on a child.

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Compassion Action Network recongnizes Community of Mindful Parents at upcoming event!

by Community of Mindful Parents April 21, 2010

Join us at the Center for Spiritual Living  (5801 Sandpont Way NE Seattle, WA 98105) on Saturday, April 24th from 9:00 - 7:30 for Compassionate Seattle: It’s up to us!  Be a part of history as Seattle becomes the first city in the world to affirm the charter for compassion! Community of Mindful Parents is one of [...]

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Reflections on The Mindful Brain written by Daniel Siegel

by Community of Mindful Parents 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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This Emotional Life

by Community of Mindful Parents January 5, 2010
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Three part series: This Emotional Life begins tonight on PBS The program airs today at 9:00 pm and continues for two more nights on KCTS (Channel 9). Funded by Paul Allen this series explores the cutting edge science such as how infants form early attachments that determine life long emotional health.  The project includes on-line [...]

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Understanding the Anxious Mind

by Community of Mindful Parents October 5, 2009
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“Jerome Kagan’s “Aha!” moment came with Baby 19. It was 1989, and Kagan, a professor of psychology at Harvard, had just begun a major longitudinal study of temperament and its effects…”

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Why Join a Listening Mothers Group?

by Community of Mindful Parents September 8, 2009
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Do you feel alone? Do you struggle to be a perfect mom? Do you wonder if you spoil your baby? Are you in control? (Or do you feel out of control?) Are you feeling confused? Reading tons of books and getting contradictory advises? Do you feel as if you don’t know yourself anymore?

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Flipping Over Nutrition

by Community of Mindful Parents July 12, 2009
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Pregnancy books are famous for flipping out over the subject of nutrition. You can’t blame these authors. Nutrition is certainly crucial in pregnancy, and it would seem that any author would be remiss in leaving out detailed instructions on how to pursue the perfect pregnancy nutritional state.

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Parenting Videos

by Community of Mindful Parents July 5, 2009

For more parenting videos click on this link or go to the ‘videos’ section under the Resources tab at the top of the page.

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Can I spoil my baby?

by Community of Mindful Parents June 17, 2009
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Everybody shudders at the thoughts of raising a spoiled child, but can you really spoil a baby?  According to experts, up to 6 months or so, it really is impossible to spoil a baby. At this early stage of the child’s development, the baby basic needs are to survive and feel loved.

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