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This book arose out of a school discussion regarding mindfulness. I had been a meditation coach and mindfulness speaker, mostly for corporations and healthcare companies, but always for adults. The discussion made me think that the words mindfulness and children seemed almost synonymous.

Observe children, and you will notice many mindful tendencies: their ability to be in the moment, to move from one wishful activity to the next, to feel their feelings (even though many times they cannot put them to words), to experience their environment, to quickly forget and move on, to experience joy in simple pleasures and move towards what makes them joyful in that moment.

These qualities, I believe, are what make children so magical to us and what make us watch them in adoration, and at times, admiration.

You may wonder what the things your children do have to do with mindfulness. Allow me to expand. Mindfulness is anything you can do with present-moment awareness.

If you are walking and only focusing on your steps, how you feel, and how your environment looks, then you are mindful. If you are gardening and only watching what you do and how the flowers make you feel wonderful and alive inside, you are being mindful.

The beauty with children is that they do not know yesterday or tomorrow until we train them into these concepts. But until then, they are perfectly aligned with the present.

This book is not meant to teach you how to be mindful, but to bring back this natural state that is within you but may have been lost. Parents are intended to use each activity to regain their sense of mindfulness in everyday pleasures and to spend time with their children in conscious presence. I hope that you will enjoy this book with your child and that you will both find moments to cherish the simplicity of life, which takes place here and now.