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Meditate With Your Children

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Have Fun Meditating With Your Children

Bonding with your kids usually brings to mind a day at the beach, watching a ball game, or even playing video games together. But, how about step out of the box and meditate? If you’ve found it helpful in your life, why not bring your kids into it as well. Teaching your child to practice meditation can promote positive and happy emotions.

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  • Think like a child. Forget the lofty descriptions and explain meditation to your child in his own words. The more you make meditating sound like a fun activity, the better your child will enjoy it. Create meditation techniques without limits to imagining happy and joyful thoughts. Joy Kids Universe believes your child will understand and relate to meditation more on a Casey Rose level.
  • Show your child how it’s done. Sitting comfortably, breathing properly, and other meditation practices are best learned by your child if he sees how you do it. When your child sees how calm and happy you are, he’ll want to imitate what you’re doing more readily.
  • Make it a family routine. When your child associates meditation as a way of bringing you together as a family, she’ll look forward to it as a special time, and a chance to get closer to each other.

Casey Rose and The Joy Bug believe meditation is a great way to for your kids to learn about the right values. It will help them deal with the challenges and stress that they encounter and will face throughout their lives.

 

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How To Control Child Control Issues

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Don’t make control a tug-of-war

Raising your child can sometimes feel like a tug-of-war over control. For a more joyful outcome, avoid turning parent/child interactions into a “Who’s the boss here?” situation. Joy Kids Universe agrees with child psychologists who have this to say about managing child control issues.

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  • Recognize controlling behavior. A child with control issues only feels important if he or she can get you to do what he wants. This can show itself in ways such as ignoring instructions, turning on the “silent treatment”, throwing tantrums when reprimanded, or refusing to apologize. Sometimes, these can be signs of deep-seated insecurities.
  • Don’t play the game. Dominating a controlling child may solve the problem at hand, but not the long-term one. Instead, step back and disengage because it “takes two to tango”. One way to do this is by saying it once, then walking away. If the child refuses to follow instructions, let the consequence follow until the child learns that you mean business.
  • Stay cool, like Casey Rose, and be prepared. Get to know what triggers your child’s attempts at control, and be prepared for them. This may require a lot of self-control, but make a plan for dealing with these situations, then stick to it. Psych yourself up so you’re ready when it happens. Just like the Joybug helps Casey Rose, you need your spouse and other family members to help you with ideas and encouragement.

 

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