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Parenting and Mindfulness

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The Power of Reassurance

Sally Kohn: When my children start to show signs like, oh no, don't leave or they are just, they appear to be anxious or they get reluctant to get out of the car. I would have verbally said, you know, you're okay right now, everything's going to be okay. But in my head, it would have taken me away to worries for the future and a feeling of powerlessness over them. And so if I'm observing him and his body, I don't say like,. you know, calm down that you don't go, I don’t go there. Instead, the mindfulness work that I have done is to help me see like

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