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??Integrating self-compassion practice into family life is a profound gift that parents can give to their children and to themselves.
Here you will learn how to make self-compassion an active practice for the whole familywith over 70 activities, crafts, meditations, and games.
Self-compassionbeing kind to yourself when things are hardis a valuable quality for parents to model and to cultivate in their childrenand studies show that it also builds emotional resilience.
This guide for parents explains the benefits of teaching children about self-compassion, and it offers advice, encouragement, and practices to enrich family life. Wendy OLeary and Louise Shanagher, who have an extensive background and expertise in mindfulness, childrens education, and psychology, introduce the basic concepts of self-compassion, along with the benefits and the research that supports the practice.
In communicating self-compassion to children, the authors emphasize the importance of focusing on a childs inherent value rather than on their external achievements and specify the benefits of self-compassion over self-esteem. Crucially, they show us that self-compassion also includes an embodied, felt sense of deep care and love for ourselves.
