Parenting from the Inside Out (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Sara: Add a description of this character.
• Annika
• Jack
• D. J. Siegel
• Dan
• Mary Main

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• “By making sense of our lives we can deepen a capacity for self-understanding and bring coherence to our emotional experience, our views of the world, and our interactions with our children”

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• We often try to control our children’s feelings and behavior when actually it is our own internal experience that is triggering our upset feelings about their behavior.

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• Talking with children about their thoughts, memories, and feelings provides them with the essential interpersonal experiences necessary for self-understanding and building their social skills.

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• We can’t change what happened to us as children but we can change the way we think about those events.

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• The fascinating feature of implicit memory is that when it is retrieved it lacks an internal sensation that something is being “recalled” and the individual is not even aware that this internal experience is being generated from something from the past.

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• Mindsight is the ability to perceive our own minds and the minds of others.

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• When we are mindful, we live in the present moment and are aware of our own thoughts and feelings and also are open to those of our children.

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• Being mindful as a parent means having intention in your actions. With intention, you purposefully choose your behavior with your child’s emotional well-being in mind. Children can readily detect intention and thrive when there is purposeful interaction with their parents. It is within our children’s emotional connections with us that they develop a deeper sense of themselves and a capacity for relating.

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• Children need to be enjoyed and valued, not managed. We often focus on the problems of life rather than on the possibilities for enjoyment and learning available to us. When we are too busy doing things for our children, we forget how important it is to simply be with them.

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• The anchor points for this approach to the parent-child relationship are mindfulness, lifelong learning, response flexibility, mindsight, and joyful living.

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• Response flexibility is the ability of the mind to sort through a wide variety of mental processes, such as impulses, ideas, and feelings, and come up with a thoughtful, nonautomatic response. Rather than merely automatically reacting to a situation, an individual can reflect and intentionally choose an appropriate direction of action. Response flexibility is the opposite of a “knee-jerk reaction.” It involves the capacity to delay gratification and to inhibit impulsive behaviors. This ability is a cornerstone of emotional maturity and compassionate relationships.

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• New York

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Mary Hartzell (Author)
2. Daniel J. Siegel (Author)

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• Dewey: 306

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Personal Health › Women's Health › Pregnancy & Childbirth
• Books › Home & Garden › How-to & Home Improvements › Household Hints
• Books › Parenting & Families › Parenting