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Monday, 14 February 2011 02:00

New Blog: The Art of Raising a Zen Kid

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I was really excited to find this new blog via Twitter. The Art of Raising a Zen Kid maintained by A Happy Sea Hare - a mother who is attempting to raise her kid according to Zen practices. It has charming stories of her son mastering these principle far faster than she expected. I posed the question to her "So you DO you raise a Zen kid??" and this is what she said:

"The key words for raising a zen kid is "LOVE" and "PATIENT".

'When Bobo gets upset, I usually ask him to do as follows.
(1) Breath in and breath out, for 3 or 10 times.
(2) Ask himself whether he calms down or not.
(3) Ask himself whether he has turned the anger into joy.

'Usually after he finishes the 3 steps, he will happily tell me, "Mom, the anger has become joy!"

'Occasionally, he would breath very fast and cannot calm down. Then I will ask him to breath slower.

'At the same time, I am trying to establish a routine-- to do loving-kindness meditation together with him right before he sleeps."

What I particularly love about this, is that she is teaching her son how to deal with his emotions. I'm not there yet, but I can completely imagine myself saying to the GT in the future: "Stay in your room until you've calmed down," or "I need you to calm down!" I can imaging telling him TO calm down, but not HOW to calm down.

This also makes me think about all the patients I saw in my therapy practice who had no idea what to do with their emotions. What do therapists do when someone comes in having never learned how to deal with their anger or anxiety? We teach them.....wait for it..........breathing techniques! So, I guess you might as well start early, and maybe save of some therapist bills!

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Dr. Dad = My darling husband. The Great Tubaloo, or the GT = what we like to call our son (rhymes with "tube of glue".) Note, it's a title, not a name. as in "The Great and Almighty Tubaloo who has traveled from from over the mountain to impart his wisdom!"