Today's Podcast uses the breathe as a cue to connect us to our child and the cosmos.  Designed to be used especially when we are away fromour child, today's exercise can also be used when with our child.

Today's Morning Cup offers a classic mindful parenting verse through which you connect more deeply to your child and through that connection, ground yourself more deeply in the here and now. It can be done anytime and anywhere and takes but a few moments.

Just because we get out of bed doesn't mean we've woken up.  This podcast provides a helpful reminder that habitual events, like breakfast, can become mindless routine, and offers a two minute tool so that breakfast can become a wonderful opportunity to Wake Up!

Our words can be a source of happiness as well as suffering, for ourselves and others.  Today's Morning Cup technique suggests how we might respond to our child in a way that allows us a moment to meditate or turn inward while offering our child the space with which to explore and realize their potential.

Our eyes and our child's eyes are windows into a deep place of aliveness.  Today's podcast invites you to meditate on your child's eyes, soaking in their color.  During the day, similar hues cue awareness of your child's presence and, ultimately, of your own.  You awaken to the moment and see the world with fresh eyes.

Today's Morning Cup column offers a mindful parenting verse to bring awareness out of the egoic mind and more fully into the body.

Today's podcast reminds us how we each hold the key to resolving conflict.We can't always expect another to let go of "stuff," but we can look inward and, with developing awareness of what is really taking place, more naturally let go of our some of own stuff.  Imagery of tying and untying our children's shoelaces places the key within our grasp.

Signing your name likely has become an automatic process.  Today's podcast opens awareness to your aliveness during this routine act.  With imagery of your child learning to write his or her name for the first time, you expand awareness by making the subtlest of changes to one of the letters in your name.  As you expand spaciousness within a letter, you open awareness within yourself.

A verse and its rich imagery offer a short visualization of your child stepping into the magic of the unknown, helping you expand awareness of your own ambivalence and do the same.  The verse and imagery can be easily remembered and recited during the day when we become aware that we are stuck in hesitation. From this we act! and touch our aliveness.