Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle

While punitive discipline practices including spanking and time-outs are still common practices, these fear and shame-based methods are widely acknowledged by early childhood experts and mental health professionals as ineffective and harmful to children's long-term health and well-being.

The negative cycle of punitive discipline is often repeated and passed down to the next generation. Breaking this generational cycle of using toxic discipline practices in the home and school setting requires us to support parents and caregivers worldwide with evidence-based tools, support, and education that make connecting with kids and raising them with compassion, love, and respectful boundaries, a habit.

It Takes a Village: Raising Children in a Connected World

As we all know, it takes a village to raise a child. Generation Mindful is committed to being a part of that village as we provide support to those who need it most while offering assistance in nurturing their children’s development. This is one of t...

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mother and father comforting a child in the office of her therapist

Reparenting Yourself Exercises – Embrace Self-Healing and Nurture Your Inner Child

Use reparenting yourself exercises to reconnect with your vulnerable self, heal emotional wounds, and cultivate self-compassion for transformative growth.

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A mother performing a reparenting exercise

This Numbed Out World Needs Sensitive People Like You

So many of us as parents today grew up having emotions like sadness, grief, confusion, jealousy, and rage dismissed or denied by the often well-intended but misguided adults raising us who never learned these components of emotional intelligence them...

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Raising Sons with Expansive, Tender Masculinity

“So are we really going to do this? Let him go to school in the Elsa costume?” Lloyd and I had just tucked our kids into bed, and in the morning was Storybook Character Day at school.

Raising Sons with Expansive, Tender Masculinity

The Effects of Spanking on the Spanker

8 ways spanking affects the parent or person giving the spanking

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The Effects of Spanking on the Spanker

Why Do Parents Spank?

To advocate for the children who fall subject to corporal punishment, perhaps we must witness the inner child of the punisher. Here are 4 reasons why someone may spank and how to use this information to connect rather than shame. (Because, remember, ...

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How to Become a Cycle-Breaking Parent in 4 Steps

Unlike many of our parents who repressed, denied, ignored, or shamed their own feelings, resulting in abusive explosions and emotional neglect, becoming a cycle breaker means that we commit to FACE-ing our emotions with clarity and deep compassion. H...

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How to Become a Cycle-Breaking Parent in 4 Steps

Why This Four-Year-Old's Video On Skin Color Needs To Go Viral

As an African American woman married to a white man, Ebony and her husband Michael have made it their mission to teach their four-year-old son, Max, about emotions and inclusion.

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Breaking Multi-Generational Shame Cycles

No one is born ashamed. It is a learned, self-conscious emotion. And, often, it is multi-generational. If we aren't aware of our own tendencies to shame, we won't notice when they get triggered. We'll just act them out onto our children, passing sham...

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School to Prison Pipeline: Bill Diminishes Willful Defiance Suspensions

With efforts to keep children in school and out of the school-to-prison pipeline, teachers and administrators within California school districts will no longer be able to suspend elementary and middle school students for wil...

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Parenting Brain Development Breaking the Cycle Building Connection Building Emotional Intelligence Calming Corner De-Escalation Techniques Developing a Growth Mindset Happy Family Mindful Parenting Neurodiversity Parenting Communication Parenting a Strong Willed Child Positive Discipline Re-parenting SEL in the Classroom Secure Attachment Siblings Rivalry Social Emotional Learning

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