01/31/2025
At its foundation, effective parenting is mindful parenting. When parents and teachers mindfully work to teach emotional, behavioral, and cognitive control in an emotionally supportive, deliberate manner, kids are set up for success. The point is it takes brain power to come up with your own parenting philosophy and it takes practice to develop
your parenting skills.
While I fully support parents practicing mindful parenting, I prefer a different term. Mindful meddling is a more descriptive term for what I teach parents in my coaching practice. Because if you’re anything like me, there’s no way that you’re going to just lay back and let the world completely take over. You’re going to meddle. I happen to be a meddling pro. And meddling is okay. It’s actually extremely
beneficial when done with some balance.
For more on mindful meddling check out my best selling book Raising Brains (link in profile!)