Parenting Boost | 8 Steps to Creating a Mindful Moment with your Child

Time keeps flying as my due date for baby #3 is nearing with her anticipated September 7th arrival. I’ll be using my final month to hunker down with my family – connecting, preparing and being mindful of these summer days before our four-some becomes a five-some.

​As I set my own intention for August, I use this time with you to ask some similar questions:

• What is your intention for the month? 
• In what ways can you better tune in to the present moment with your children?
• How can you release your stress and shift towards a more relaxed and peaceful mindset when engaging with your children?

Use this helpful antidote that takes no equipment to use and provides instant implementation. What is it ? ...  It’s our senses!! 
 
Yup, you read that correctly. Connecting with our senses is a powerful way to connect with the present moment as you fulfill your intention and bring to fruition your responses to the above 3 questions.  Use your senses to shift your mindset with these 8 steps to creating a more mindful moment with your child  …

1. Pick a moment today to sit by your child’s side
2. Take this pause in time to really focus on him/her 
3. Allow what you hear, feel, smell and taste to fade into the background
4. Only notice what you SEE: the shape of their face, how close or far she/he is from you, the shadows from the light, observing the space that surrounds him/her, and so on ...

1. Take a big deep conscious breath
2. As you exhale, bring your focus to the entire picture in front of you
3. What did you connect to within yourself and within in your child? How did just using your sense of sight enhance this moment between the two of you?
4. Repeat and Answer for yourself the following : “ I will use my awareness and insights from this moment to bring more connection between me and my child and/or family today. I will do this by _______.”

Go ahead! Give it a try and see what happens :)!

​As we seek to continuously create more mindful moments with our family and children, I invite you to check out my
 e-guide, “6 Elements to Mindful & Conscious Parenting,” I share ways we can prep our mindset for a strong start to the school year. 

Imagine the new school year without dishing out the constant comparisons between siblings, picking at and calling out the things your child hasn’t done, or wishing your child was more like “X” and if they could only do more “Y.”

How much more helpful is it to know and understand …

• The way your left and right side of the brain plays a role in the way you parent – why you may often see problems vs solutions?
• How your level of energy either discourages or fosters your family coming together to work as a cohesive unit and team?
• How more conscious communication instills greater “buy-in” and personal investment from your children?

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• Get different real life family scenarios to compare and contrast. 
• Tangibly see and hear what it’s like to handle situations more mindfully and consciously
  
• Prepare for a more harmonious start to the school year
• Get clarity on HOW you want to make the shifts and changes you’re seeking to create 

Give yourself a few days this summer to pay attention to your qualities and strengths as you build more connection and a stronger relationship with your family. ​

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May the remaining summer weeks be sprinkled with smiles, laughter, quality time, moments of calm, deep breaths and many pauses for continued patience.