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Mistakes Help Me Learn and Grow

Today we are taking this beauty into our hearts and home! Join us and in just about 10 minutes each week we 1) work with our mantra of the week 2) explore the reality verse illusion behind these words and 3) share about how we might take these words more...

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You Are Love

Mantra this week: “You are love”This week I want to tell you 1) where I was on Friday such that you are just now seeing this 2) where the first line of our Generation Mindful manifesto originated and 3) how I use these three powerful words practically in my everyday...

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I Hold My Heart Higher Than My Head

 Getting to the heart of the matter

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My Feelings Rock

How can we teach children that all feelings are okay (helpful!) to feel (including anger) and why is this important when it comes to nurturing emotional intelligence?

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Emotional Intelligence is More Than Naming Emotions

Emotional intelligence is more than naming emotions. Remaining calm when our child is emoting requires great patience, often more than we have in reserve.

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School Program Uses PeaceMakers to Aide Social-Emotional Skill Building

Fit Abilities Yoga program in the Ferguson MO School District are empowering students by using Generation Mindful's PeaceMakers mantra cards.

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Growing a Growth Mindset: The Big Life Journal

Parenting is hard.  I am 17 years into the raising of humans, and of this one thing I am absolutely certain. I will NEVER get it "right". The good news is this: getting it "right" is no longer my goal.  GROWING A GROWTH MINDSET Today I had the pleasure of chatting...

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How To Get Your Kids to Listen Today Without Yelling

You’re talking, but nobody’s listening. You feel like the teacher in that Snoopy cartoon. Waaa -waaa-waaa-waaa-waaa. You’ve been nice. You’ve been patient. You’ve repeated yourself no less than three times and YOU. ARE. DONE. You think to yourself: ‘Why won’t they just do what I ask them to do?!’ ‘I could have never...

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Not Perfect Parenting and Mindfulness

"When I started my journey in motherhood, my greatest struggle was perfection. Wanting to reach high. Having these high, I would say unattainable, goals. And though I was doing all the crunchy mama wonderful things - babywearing, nursing, making my foods and you know, all these wonderful things, it was...

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