Mindful Moments Blog

Attachment is Not a Reward. It’s a Lifeline.

In using a time-in, my boys learned valuable skills they would never have learned by sitting in a corner. Did this produce perfect children? No. But this did produce securely attached children who no longer had to make desperate bids for the attachment they so instinctively desired. Read more.

Healing From A Childhood You Don't Remember

While we may not remember our childhood with our mind and verbal words, our body keeps the score and stores the information it receives from our formative years, namely which parts of us to grow and which to shrink. These downloads show up as patterns in adulthood and in our parenting. Read more.

Parenting A Sensitive And Strong-Willed Child

Raising a strong-willed child? You're not alone. Gain access to tools that help you validate the emotions fueling their meltdown, plus tangible tips to redirect hitting, kicking, spitting, power struggles, and other challenging behaviors.

Using A Feelings Chart To Teach Emotions

If you feel like you are learning about emotional regulation right alongside your child, it’s because, very likely, you are. Here's how to use a feelings chart to teach your kids (and yourself) about emotions and calming strategies to decrease tantrums and nurture emotional intelligence.

Building Resilience Through Connection

Children are wired to bounce back from trauma when they have protective factors in place. Through connection with a supportive adult, and through increasing their social-emotional skills, a child's health and development can tip towards positive outcomes.

Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys

Forcing boys to repress their emotions is quite literally killing them, leaving lasting mental and physical health implications. Here are 4 things we can do to free our boys and men from social constructs of man up, toughen up, and dry up.

The Battle Between Positive and Negative Reinforcement

We parents have long searched for a solution when it comes to behavior modification, asking ourselves, which is more effective, positive or negative reinforcement? We have the scoop here.

Mom Of Two Advocates For Her Neurodiverse Daughters

Natasha is a mama of two neurodiverse daughters and she has one big focus: teaching her girls social-emotional skills, not only to help them express themselves but to advocate for themselves.

That's Not How I Was Parented

We took a look at common parenting practices of the past to compare how we were parented to how we parent. And here is what we found.

Why Can't I Remember My Childhood? Here’s Why

Stress and trauma suppress and actually shrink the part of the brain responsible for emotional regulation and memory, making it hard for us to recall our youth. As we teach and guide our children and nurture their emotional intelligence, we regenerate our hippocampus so we can remember, feel and share, too.

3 Ways To Transform Your Child's Behavior

This mom was searching for a way to transform her child's misbehavior. And it was these three connection-based tools that did it.

The Myth of Self-Regulation

Self-regulation is a myth. Regulation is never about the self because we are always drawing on internal representations of what we have previously experienced in relationships. So, before our kids can self-regulate, they must first learn to co-regulate. Here's how.

Make Connection a Habit

time-in toolkit

Attachment is Not a Reward. It’s a Lifeline.

Healing From A Childhood You Don't Remember

Parenting A Sensitive And Strong-Willed Child

Using A Feelings Chart To Teach Emotions

Building Resilience Through Connection

Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys

The Battle Between Positive and Negative Reinforcement

Mom Of Two Advocates For Her Neurodiverse Daughters

That's Not How I Was Parented

Why Can't I Remember My Childhood? Here’s Why

3 Ways To Transform Your Child's Behavior

The Myth of Self-Regulation

Together we are raising an emotionally healthy world.