Mindful Moments Blog

An Open Letter To My Child's Teacher

For months, every morning, I sent my child off to school to be in your care. I entrusted you with my heart as he walked into your classroom. I handed him off to you, woman to woman, knowing that for the next several hours, it would be you that he...

A Mother’s Love: I Hope You Always Know

A mother shares her perspective of Motherhood. No matter the doubt, or her questions of being enough, there is one thing she knows for sure, "despite all my questions, my immeasurable love for you is not one of them."

Social Distancing Impact on Children

We share parents' top concerns and frustrations about their children’s behaviors during this time of staying home, and tools for navigating regression and other stress responses.

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

Four tips to help parents create meaningful and effective in-home learning opportunities during the pandemic.

How to Handle Sibling Rivalry During Quarantine

In a time of social distancing, tension can elevate between siblings. These 7 tips can help to tame sibling rivalry during quarantine.

To the Single Mamas and Papas During the Coronavirus

Parenthood is hard, especially during these unique times of social distancing, quarantine, forced homeschooling, wiping down our groceries, etc. To our single parent friends, we see you, we celebrate you, and we have got your back!

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

These printable mantra bracelets are a great way for parents to share comforting and empowering mantras with children as young as age two on up. Because when we feel worthy and loved, we respond as if we are worthy and loved. And when we feel powerless and not enough, we respond as...

Reducing Toddler Tantrums

One family’s journey using time-ins to manage their toddler's big feelings, going from 33 to 3 tantrums a day in just one week.

When Your Child Fears The Coronavirus: 8 Tips for Taming Anxiety

As a parent, what do you do when your child has fears that feel out of their control - things like viral outbreaks and global warming? Learn 8 tips for taming fears and anxieties through connection.

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Sierra has struggled to cultivate language for how her disability impacts her own social-emotional development and how it impacts her experiences at school. This struggle has been a barrier to Sierra’s ability to create positive relationships with her classmates.

Teaching Academics and Social-Emotional Skills in the Montessori Classroom

Emily Canibano, a Montessori teacher with a classroom of 16 students ranging in age from 1.2 to 5.5 years, was looking for a way to teach social-emotional skills in her classroom, both in feeling emotions and in the safe expression of them.

Morning Meetings and Connecting a Classroom

A the school counselor shares how her school transformed its classroom culture by using SnuggleBuddies plush toys to teach students about their emotions.

Make Connection a Habit

emotional intelligence

An Open Letter To My Child's Teacher

A Mother’s Love: I Hope You Always Know

Social Distancing Impact on Children

4 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home

How to Handle Sibling Rivalry During Quarantine

To the Single Mamas and Papas During the Coronavirus

Positive Affirmations are Helping Kids

Reducing Toddler Tantrums

When Your Child Fears The Coronavirus: 8 Tips for Taming Anxiety

6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Teaching Academics and Social-Emotional Skills in the Montessori Classroom

Morning Meetings and Connecting a Classroom

Together we are raising an emotionally healthy world.