Growing Self-Compassionate Children by Wendy O'leary

Growing Self-Compassionate Children by Wendy O'leary

​​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 family-with over 70 activities, crafts, meditations, and games.

Self-compassion-being kind to yourself when things are hard-is a valuable quality for parents to model and to cultivate in their children-and 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 O'Leary and Louise Shanagher, who have an extensive background and expertise in mindfulness, children's 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 child's 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.

DR. CHRISTOPHER WILLARD is an author and educator who teaches at Harvard Medical School and serves on the board of the Mindfulness in Education Network and the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. An established speaker in both meditation and psychotherapy communities, he regularly leads workshops and presents at conferences around the world. WENDY O'LEARY, MEd, is a holistic health educator and certified yoga teacher with over twenty-five years of experience developing and teaching programs with a focus on social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and mind-body strategies for well-being. She has extensive direct experience working with children and teens in schools, nonprofit organizations, and afterschool programs; and she provides staff development trainings and parent workshops in addition to individual and group work with people from pre-K through adulthood.

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ISBN 13	9781645473008
ISBN 10	1645473007
Title	Growing Self-Compassionate Children
Author	Wendy O'leary
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2025-03-11
Number of pages	160
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