​Parents who have a regular meditation practice are setting an example, and can teach directly to their children, meditation and mindfulness practices that fit their children's needs, capabilities, interests and level of development. 

A regular practice of meditation and other mindful activities can help cultivate a welcome and healing peace that a busy parent needs.  It will also, as stated on the Relating page, help the parent to become a better listener, more in tune with the joys, needs, fears, hopes, and interests of each individual child in their care.  It can help develop a patience and acceptance for the parent's "self" and growing out of that a patience and acceptance of each child.

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But a parent's practice of meditation (especially parents of young children, and especially parents who are just beginning to develop a meditation practice) will look very different from the practice of those who are currently free from the responsibilities for young ones.   Be patient with yourself and your practice and all the obstacles you can expect.  Be willing to seek out and accept help, both in the form of encouragement and guidance, and in the form of respite from parenting duties.  You will likely need some time away from the noise and distractions that children can fill a home with.   

Look for coming instructions and guided meditations, specifically for parents in general and parents in specific circumstances.

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Meditation helps to lovingly connect

Meditation helps us to mindfully share

Meditation helps us to be strong and steadfast

Meditation helps us to let go

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