On my shelf this week:
The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, by Sara Miles
The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate, by Susan Kaiser Greenland
This week I’ve got a new book club read, a spiritual memoir and a parenting book about mindfulness.
Best quotes so far:
“By practicing mindfulness kids learn life skills that help them soothe and calm themselves, bring awareness to their inner and outer experience, and bring a reflective quality to their actions and relationships. Living in this way helps children connect to themselves (what do I feel? think? see?), to others (what do they feel? think? see?), and maybe to something greater than themselves.”
Susan Kaiser Greenland
“By giving themselves enough breathign room to take in what’s happening in their inner and outer worlds, children can identify both their talents and their challenges by using mindfulness techniques. The outcome is dependent on developmental capabilities (young kids are limited in what they can do by their stage of physical and emotional maturation), but those who practice mindfulness can develop a sense of balance and a calm, concentrated mind that is capable of creativity, happiness, tolerance and compassion. With such minds children are better able to define what they want to do and achieve the goals they set for themselves. With such minds children will be ready to change the world for the better.”
Susan Kaiser Greenland
“The key to managing stress and other difficult situations does not always lie in the situation itself but rather in how kids and their parents respond to it.”
Susan Kaiser Greenland
Read any of these? Tell us what you thought.
