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The Queen Rocking Angklung

July 23, 2021

Hear from the lovely, passionate angklung, music activist Faridah Jamal about her journey in music education, her experience. What are the benefits of angklung and music in general? Learn about this centuries old musical instruments made from bamboo. Feel her contagious energy, love and passion for it.

Raising Mindful Children

May 07, 2021

Conversation with Fiona Ghiglione, founder of Mothering Girls, a mindfulness educator. We talked about the challenges of raising children especially pre-teens. What are the little things that we can do to instil kindness in raising them? The common problem denominator parents have in this day and age is controlling the usage of electronics. These tools are important in the growth of children so what is the best way to handle it? As everyone has their own parenting methods but as we found out in this conversation any change needs to be coming from mom's who are willing to seek it.

So join us for this eye opening conversation.

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Meditation, Mindfulness and Children

March 24, 2021

Meditation is a mind-body practice that brings in moments of calm, brings about self-awareness, and allows people to stay connected with themselves, according to Sarah Roffe, LCSW, CCLS, a co-founder and psychotherapist at Kind Minds Therapy. Research has confirm that for children, mindfulness can: Mitigate the effects of bullying (Zhou, Liu, Niu, Sun, & Fan, 2016); Enhance focus in children with ADHD (Zhang et al., 2016); Reduces attention deficit issues (Crescentini, Capurso, Furlan, & Fabbro, 2016); Improve mental health and wellbeing; Improve social skills when well taught and practiced with children and adolescents. People can get nervous hearing the...

Gadget Addiction in Children - A Parents' Journey

March 15, 2021

What if the only supplement your 2 year old need is only YouTube? This is a journey of parents dealing with their child's addiction to electronics gadgets. From the moment they noticed their child was not responding to simple name answering, the period of denial, getting the medical attention needs and his road to recovery.

Simple Goal Setting To Help Kids

January 15, 2021

How can we help children goal set, have a resolution and help them succeed? Below are a few ideas how it can be done. Write goals down, make them attainable, and create a plan of accountability Psychologist Gabriele Oettingen did a research study on success rates of people who had optimistic beliefs about their future goals vs. the success rates of people who had pessimistic beliefs. Surprisingly results showed that there is no direct correlation between them. Optimists ignored or glossed over obstacles, while self-defeating, pessimist didn’t believe in their own capabilities. Instead, what she found was that: (1) Mental...