Abstract
Parenting is one of the most consuming and responsible tasks in a lifetime for many parents, yet parents do it with love, joy, pride, and a sense of fulfillment. In fact, raising children, and having grandchildren, may be the most fulfilling “job” that we ever have and being a good father or a good mother our highest ambition in life. If we would be asked what we want people to say about us at our funeral, having been a good parent (and grandparent) is what comes up for most of us who have had the fortune to be a parent (and have grandchildren).
Every baby can be seen as a little Buddha or Zen Master, your own private mindfulness teacher…
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are (1994), pg. 248
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Bögels, S., Restifo, K. (2014). Introduction to Mindful Parenting. In: Mindful Parenting. Mindfulness in Behavioral Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7406-7_1
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