by Carla Naumburg | May 23, 2018 | Parenting, PsychCentral.com
I can’t stop thinking about the Royal Wedding. You bet your tushy we watched it. A friend came over with fascinators, homemade scones, and clotted cream. I broke a cardinal rule of parenting and woke my daughters up on a weekend morning, and we turned on the TV an...
by Carla Naumburg | Mar 28, 2018 | Writing
I was recently interviewed for a piece in The New York Times entitled “To Raise Resilient Kids, Be a Resilient Parent.” Here are some brief quotes from the article, written by Emily Popek. Let Emotions Happen Resilience depends on an understanding that...
by Carla Naumburg | Mar 6, 2018 | Writing
This weekend was a shitshow, y’all. Saturday morning found me dropping off one kid (not my own) who had spent the night at our house and then picking up my daughter, who had spent the night at another friends’ house. We had a busy day planned; it was our last chance...
by Carla Naumburg | Jan 25, 2018 | Writing
In my last post, I wrote about why I started teaching my kids to meditate. In this post, I’ll share how I taught them, and what I did when they lost interest. I want to start out by saying that I don’t think formal meditation is the best way to teach mindfulness to...
by Carla Naumburg | Jan 11, 2018 | Writing
Chances are by now you know that most New Year’s Resolutions aren’t worth the cost of that fancy journal you wrote them in. Some estimates put the failure rate at over 80%. Despite such shockingly crappy outcomes, many of us continue to sign up for January gym...
by Carla Naumburg | Jan 2, 2018 | Writing
Teaching my girls to meditate wasn’t one of my resolutions for the new year. I’ve got a ton of tricks up my sleeve for practicing mindfulness with them; so many, in fact, that I wrote a book about it. But formal seated meditation can be hard for little ones,...
