
Parenting 101
Blog
Anthony Cupo is a Trained Mindfulness Facilitator (TMF) from the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is a co-owner of Stepping Forward Counseling Center, LLC and has been meditating for over 30 years.
Archive
- Bonding 1
- Boundaries 1
- Brain Fitness 1
- CBT 1
- Childhood Anxiety 2
- Communication 1
- DBT 1
- Emotional Regulation 1
- Family Travel 1
- Healthy Mind 1
- Holiday Mindfulness 1
- Internal Dialogue 1
- Kindness 1
- Loving Kindness 1
- Metta Meditation 1
- Mindful Dads 3
- Mindful Journaling 1
- Mindful Organization 1
- Mindful Parenting 4
- Mindful Travel 1
- Mindfulness 15
- Mompreneur 1
- Nature Lessons 1
- Navigating Diverse Perspectives 1
- Navigating Technology 1
- Parent Wellness 1
- Parenting for Special Needs 1
- Positive Self-Talk 1
- Sensory Vision Board 1
- Summer Camp 1
- Summer Mindfulness 1
- Teaching Gratitude 1
Spring Nature Lessons
Spring break offers a chance to learn mindful lessons from nature.
Spring break is just around the corner. It’s the perfect time to take a break from our daily routines and rejuvenate. While some may choose to travel or engage in thrilling activities, spending time in nature and learning mindful lessons from it is another option worth considering.
Mental Prep for Summer Camp
Find out how mindfulness can help you guide your children on their summer camp adventures. Summer camp is an exciting and enriching experience for children of all ages. It provides an opportunity to explore new activities, make new friends and create lasting memories. However, for some children, the thought of going to summer camp can be overwhelming and anxiety-inducing. Being mindful can play a significant role in helping prepare your child for summer camp.
The Evolving Landscape of Parent Wellness
The new year brings advancements and transformative changes in parenting and well-being.
Parenting is a beautiful and transformative journey, often requiring us to adapt and grow constantly. As we step into the year 2024, the world of parent wellness has undergone remarkable advancements and transformative changes. Let's explore the new frontiers of parent wellness and how they shape how we nurture our children in this era.
Navigating the Modern World
Why mindfulness is an essential skill of the new year.
Navigating the modern world is not easy — our culture places excessive demands on our time and attention, often pulling our focus away from those nearest to us and even away from our personal health and well-being. Technology dominates every aspect of our lives. While it has undoubtedly delivered incredible opportunities and improvements to so many aspects of our lives, we must recognize the impact on our health and the health of our children while finding solutions that best protect our families.
Holiday Mindfulness Hacks
Introduce your kids to mindfulness during the holidays with these engaging activities
The holiday season is a time for parents to practice mindfulness and impart this invaluable skill to their children. Teaching children the art of presence and gratitude can help them navigate the holiday season with a sense of calm and appreciation. We will explore some engaging mindfulness hacks parents can use to introduce their chil- dren to the joys of mindfulness during this festive time.
Cultivating Mindfulness as a Mompreneur
How to nurture your well-being while navigating a business.
Being a mompreneur is a unique and rewarding journey, but it can also be quite demanding. Balancing the responsibilities of motherhood with running a business can sometimes leave us feeling overwhelmed and stressed. That's where mindfulness comes in. By cultivating this practice, you can enhance your overall well-being while navigating the demands of entrepreneurship.
Halloween Mindfulness
Embrace the spooky season with a mindful approach. As Halloween approaches, we find ourselves immersed in a world of eerie decorations, spine-chilling costumes and ghostly tales. While this holiday is traditionally associated with scares and thrills, it is essential to remember the power of mindfulness amidst all the fright. In this article, we will embark on a spooky adventure, exploring the ways mindfulness can help us navigate the haunted realms of Halloween with a sense of calm, creativity and joy.
Mindful Practice
Learn how practicing mindfulness helps children with anxiety. Mindfulness is the ability to focus on the present moment while allowing yourself to experience emotions, thoughts and sensations as they develop. It’s important not to try to control your experience when practicing mindfulness. Instead, allowing thoughts and feelings to run their course teaches you to become more comfortable in the stillness. Breathing techniques, meditation and positive affirmation exercises are all helpful components of practicing mindfulness.
Bucket List of Summer Mindfulness
Mindfulness means children can concentrate without anything else distracting them. Everyday life stress can overwhelm and make it difficult for children to reflect and observe what is happening around them. Mindfulness can be lost in a world that continues to move faster than ever and wherein children are constantly engaged with screens and digital media.
5 Tips for Emotional Regulation
Help your child regulate emotions with these simple mindfulness tips.
Teaching children emotional regulation is essential for ensuring that they can move through life without emotional outbursts that leave them feeling out of control. Emotional regulation is fundamental to developing autonomy, building healthy relationships and achieving goals. It is an important skill to build as it is also essential for mental and emotional health. Developing healthy emotional regulation takes time and effort.
Guide to a Healthy Mind
Learn some insightful tips for keeping the mind in an optimal state.
There are many approaches to mental health, and finding the one that fits you is a journey. By deliberately reappraising and recalibrating our thinking, we can change the way we feel and create an optimistic view of our world. Our lives are complex, fast-paced and filled with burdens, and we should not be surprised if we need to ask for help with our minds at some point.
Metta Love
Metta meditation offers a boost of love for you, the kids and the world.
Loving-kindness meditation, or Metta meditation, is an ultimate form of generosity, selflessness and love toward ourselves and others. In fact, Metta is a Pali word for benevolence, friendship, affection and kindness. The Dhammapada says, “Hatred cannot co-exist with love and kindness. It dissipates when supplanted with thoughts of love and compassion.” Try a Metta meditation.