Picking wild blueberries on the hike before the whining started. “I’m tired. My feet hurt. I don’t want to walk anymore and it’s really hot. I need to stop and rest. Can you carry me? Why can’t you carry me?” In her defense, my 8 year old made it all
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger August 2, 2018
My sister and me in Taos, New Mexico, circa 1984. Look how happy we are. I think it’s because we didn’t take the last run. Ahem. Father’s Day is coming up this weekend, which has got me thinking about my Dad. He gave me a lot of advice over the
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger June 14, 2018
At least they have their fascinators on. So, we got that going for us, which is nice. I can’t stop thinking about the Royal Wedding. You bet your tushy we watched it. A friend came over with fascinators, homemade scones, and clotted cream. I broke a cardinal rule of parenting
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger May 23, 2018
“Can we have some screen time?” I get this request from my daughters (ages 7 & 9) almost every afternoon. Sometimes I say yes, sometimes I say no. When I say no, sometimes my kids throw tantrums, but mostly they don’t. Mostly they find something else to do, sometimes on
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger May 11, 2018
Bedtime can be rough, and not just for the kids. Folks get cranky, it’s hard to get motivated, and kids rarely fall asleep as quickly as we want them to. (In their defense, many of us adults also struggle with that same issue.) The reality is that bedtime is easier
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger March 30, 2018
Crazy hair day. For the record, hair chalk is a huge pain in the tushy. This weekend was a shitshow, y’all. Saturday morning found me dropping off one kid (not my own) who had spent the night at our house and then picking up my daughter, who had spent the
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger March 6, 2018
The cat is still extremely skeptical. The first time I heard about mindfulness and meditation, I thought it was BS. I thought it was for people who didn’t have their sh*t together. I was super type-A and I didn’t need that hippie baloney. And then I had kids. And everything changed.
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 25, 2018
My daughters have abandoned their meditation cushions, so the kitty moved in. In my last post, I wrote about why I started teaching my kids to meditate. In this post, I’ll share how I taught them, and what I did when they lost interest. I want to start out by
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 22, 2018
Teaching my girls to meditate wasn’t one of my resolutions for the new year. I’ve got a ton of tricks up my sleeve for practicing mindfulness with them; so many, in fact, that I wrote a book about it. But formal seated meditation can be hard for little ones, especially
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Keepin’ it real here, folks. Here’s our Hanukkah celebration from a couple of years ago – one kid grumpily lighting candles while the other one has a fit. Good times! Today is Giving Tuesday, hot on the heels of Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Melt on The
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger November 27, 2017