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    Modern Parenting Meditation: What I’m Trying

    September 4, 2019 / 2 Comments
    modern parenting meditation: Henry and me at a sculpture garden

    I read a lot about the increasing rates of anxiety in children and how parents are trying too hard to shape their children. It’s so easy for me to fall into these traps because of my own need to control, my tendency to look at life as one big project, and the insecurity I feel about my children being a reflection of me. I’ve been turning around the idea of a modern parenting meditation in my head for a while.

    Matt has been getting really into meditation lately. He listens to all sorts of audiobooks about it. He was explaining that one of the lectures he listened to talked … Read More

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