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Mindful Parent and Caregiver
If you are a parent, foster parent, grandparent or a divorced parent raising a child today seems hard, in addition, there may be behavioral problems present with children you are caring for. All parents today face stress, worry, and hardships with raising families. The solution to helping children starts with the caregiver/parent instituting an environment that offers a home with security and structure. The best action plan to help children is to be a positive parent role model offering a nurturing therapeutic environment. Request the Mindful Parenting program to help you endure parenting stress and become more mindful of awareness, what's unfolding in your life and your children's lives. Mindful parenting is about moment-to-moment, being in the now, release of past triggers, and open-hearted attention focus.
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Mindfulness in parenting is acting being attentive, non-judging, and non-reacting in interactions with their children.
Here are a few tips in Mindfulness parenting
Do not Engage
Accountability
Institute Time Out
Remain Calm
Consistency in Rules and Expectations
Positive Rewards for Behavior
Accentuate Composure in Communication Skills
Three key factors to Mindful Parenting:
Be present. Identify your own feelings when you are stressed
Do not engage responding in anger.
Communication skills: Listening carefully and responding effectively.
How-To-Do Three key factors to Mindful Parenting:
1. Noticing your own feelings when you’re in conflict with your child
2. Learning to pause before responding in anger,
3. Listening carefully to a child’s viewpoint even when disagreeing with it.
Mindful parenting is relatively new and a powerful intervention demonstrated by research to be effective for all parents including those with children suffering from psychopathology. (mental health & behavioral disorders).
According to new research, mindful parenting helps kids to less likely get depression, anxiety or use drugs. Mindfulness parenting promotes coping skills and positive behavior in their kids. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016 Jan;44(1):191-202. doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-9978-x. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25633828
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