All parents out there know that traveling with kids can be stressful and tiring. As stressful as it might, according to Dr. Margot Sunderland (a British child psychologist and psychotherapist) family holidays have a lot of positive effects on your children – it makes them not only happier, but also smarter. You can read the…
Are parents adding more stress to their kids’ life?
In the urge to help and guide our kids in “the right” direction, we, the parents tend to focus on the wrong things. What do I mean by “focus on the wrong things”? Very often we are so focused on the grades, how good our kids are in sports, how many and what kind of…
How can we teach our kids to deal with stress
As we know from last week’s blog, continues and toxic stress can have really negative effect on children’s brain and overall development. So I think that as parents it is our responsibility to teach our children not only how to deal with stress, but what is mindful lifestyle all about. But before we get into…
Does stress affect children’s development?
We are living in an environment where we are constantly stressed out and under pressure….from the moment we get up in the morning until we go to sleep in the evening. As you might be aware not all stress is bad for us – as long as the stress we are experiencing is in our…
Why children should meditate and how does this benefit them
A challenging world for our children Our children are born in a world, which is challenging them in many ways; the kids themselves are a product of the evolution of this universe and they have an inherent drive to stand up against this world with all its challenges, unexpectedness, partiality, and contradictions. Their environment provides not…
Ways of helping children to manage stress
Stress is the mental and physical reaction to external factors. The feelings and emotions triggered inside of us depend upon our interpretation of those factors. One strategy consists of raising our stress threshold level so that stress reactions are harder to cause. Another strategy provides tools to efficiently reduce our stress reactions and to neutralize them…
Traveling with Kids
Travelling with kids can be very challenging for some of us, especially if the kids are young. My husband and I love travelling, so we were determined to keep our travelling habits even after we had kids. You might say, but this is so stressful to travel with little kids – their whole routine is…
Stress is setting our children’s daily life and their development under pressure
Our children are born in a complicated world. Although food and living conditions in the western world are mostly ensured, other factors make it difficult for our children to manage and to find their way in daily life. Why is that so? What kind of messages are embodied by the child when he or she…
Children – how are they affected by the parents lifestyle
We are living in a society where we, as women want to have it all – career, perfect looks, have the perfect kids, be the perfect mother, have the perfect social life……and the list goes on and on! In all these goal chasing lifestyle that we have created for ourselves, do we actually ever stop…