Teach Your Children Well

Teaching your children well -- is giving your time to nurture the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical lives of your children, the children in your community, and the children of the world. When you teach children about love, kindness, and compassion; about reading, music and art; about science and faith; about work and rest – you breathe life and hope into the world.

In Everyday Blessings, Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn offer a mindful approach to parenting and seven intentions (one of which follows) to help guide our way:

"I will make every effort to see who my children actually are, and to remember to accept them for who they are at every age, rather then be blinded by my own expectations and fears. By making a commitment to live my own life fully and to work at seeing and accepting myself as I am, I will be better able to accord a similar acceptance to my children. In this way I can help them to grow and to relaize their full potential as unique beings."