Every Time I Choose Love, I Invite Love
Hi all! Hold onto your hats because we are breaking this one down and bring it back in (minus the guilt)!!!
Make Connection a Habit
Just Because I Can, Doesn't Mean I Have To
Just because I can, doesn't mean I have to. Join me as we 1) take in this mantra 2) take a closer look at it through the lens of "reality vs illusion" and 3) apply it practically and playfully to our lives.
On Peace Tents, Healing the Generations and Motherhood
Every child wants to know, do you see my light even when I’m not shining it?
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...
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...
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?
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.
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.
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...
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...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A Card Game to Boost Your Child's Emotional Intelligence
When I coerced my family to play a new card game designed to nurture our empathy, the first question was: How do you win? “Oh my god, it’s not that kind of game,” I said. We’re a competitive bunch. Let’s just say I’ve been uninvited from some family game[...] Read...
