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A year of kindness. Our family project is off and running! Our commitment in 2011 is to complete one out-of-the-ordinary kindness act each week for one full year. Each month we pick from a kindness “type” and our challenge is to complete it before week’s end. No comment yet.
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Follow these tips to raise a healthy, happy child. Some tips may be hard work, others may come naturally, but after you've covered the ten bases, you can stop stressing about the rest and get on being a great parent and enjoying your child.
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great article with advice you don't hear everyday...
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Five tips for how parents can start fun conversations at home about empathy
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These suggestions are playful and engaging ways to be empathetic with kids with games like "walk in my shoes" and role playing games. from StartEmpathy.org
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What's the best parenting advice you've ever gotten? Read the top 3 entries from Parenting.com's recent contest, & share your own!
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These Moms submitted parenting advice and received mom-friendly awards! Read the whole story here.
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Mom's love good for Children's Brains School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. Read Summary here. Read full text: Maternal support in early childhood predicts larger hippocampal volumes at school age
Dr. Amy Fuller's insight:
The importance of maternal nurtuing has been long proven for rats and primates, and now we know that children who experience nurturing in their early years have a larger hippocampus, by 10%. This is actually a followup study on a study on depression in preschoolers when they were ages 3 to 5. Brain images of these same children were taken when they were between 7 and 10. They evaluated the degree of maternal nuturance when the children were younger and compared the results to the brain imaging. . This study suggests a clear link between nurturing and the size of the hippocampus. What's the hippocampus? One of the most important parts of the human brain especially since it sits right in the middle of our animal brain (limbic system) which is involved in managing emotion, threat detection, behavior, motivation and memory. Amy Fuller PhD Hat tip to Donald Cooper for posting this on the Achieve Balance Linked Group. Read Summary here. Read full text: Maternal support in early childhood predicts larger hippocampal volumes at school age
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I have a treat for you--a description of a teen's infractions, how her parents responded, and the effect on her moral and emotional development. The article was written by my assistant Tess, a young woman who is a living testament to the positive effects of peaceful parenting. Via Jennifer Hoffmaster Christian
Dr. Amy Fuller's insight:
Lovely examples of how this young woman's parents said the right and peaceful thing at the right time. 
Jennifer Hoffmaster Christian's curator insight,
July 11, 2013 2:11 PM
So, I've been thinking about parenting my teens and talking to other parents about how they parent their teens, and I ran across this great article written by a young lady about all of the great lessons she learned from her own parents when she was a teenager. Insightful and optimistic!!! |
Curated by Dr. Amy Fuller
Dr. Amy Fuller, Marriage & Family Therapist passionate about healing & empowering a fuller life through Relational, Emotional, Mental & Spiritual Health/Growth. www.AmyFullerPhd.com
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CALM
All things calm in the center of what it means to be a human being, embracing the moments of our lives with joy, fullness, and hope. www.calm.amyfullerphd.com
EMDR Therapy
The amazing therapy for healing at light speed...EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
Leadership
Meditative Prayer
Learning to pray is learning to live as fully as possible in the present moment. John Main OSB
http://meditativeprayer.org
Mental Health & Emotional Wellness
All things mental health by a marriage & family therapist...from "the "I" in Illness to the "We" in Wellness" from Soulseeds
Momfulness
Parenting with Presence, Empathy, Attention, Compassion and Embodiment www.momfulness.org
Playfulness
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at PLAY.”
― Charles Schaefer 
Relationships
Resources for creating great romantic and familial relationships curated by Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr. Amy Fuller
Sacred Sexuality
"What we do comes out of who we believe we are."― Rob Bell, Sex God
The (Mind) Full Plate
"Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble." Proverbs 17:1
The Healing Art of Story
best practices in storytelling in posts, paper, podium, pulpit and poetry for publication, parenting, presentation and performance.
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52 kid friendly ways to show kindness through surprises, creating, giving, serving and thanking. Love this.