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What Lessons Should You Teach Your Children About Animal Safety?
Your child’s early years have a profound effect on their development. Children’s experiences, along with environmental and socioeconomic factors affect brain development and have a long-term impact physically, mentally, and emotionally. So, a positive nurturing...
Building Resilience in Children: Strategies to Support Good Mental Health
Good mental health is essential for every child's well-being, but many parents are unsure how to support it. In today's fast-paced world, children face increasing pressure from society, making them more likely to experience mental health problems. Mental health...
How Yoga Can Teach Students to Be More Reflective
The ability to reflect is an underrated skill that can provide many benefits to students. A comprehensive literature review on Reflection Literacy points out that this skill can affect students’ academic literacy, reflection knowledge and skills, assessment literacy,...
Moving with Children 101: 5 Tips to Keep Stress Levels Low
The moving process is often chaotic with so much to do, keep track of, and plan for. Add children into the mix, and the stress level increases. For those of you who are planning to move your family into a new home, take it slow and plan out each step of the process to...
How to Organize Your Family and Yourself
If your life is crazy with work, kids' activities, and household responsibilities, then the stress may be mounting. As part of managing your stress, you should strive to organize both your family and yourself. You might sniff at this and say, “yeah, right,” but it is...
How to Introduce Your Newborn to Pets
As a pet parent, you probably already know how exciting it is to welcome a new addition into your family. But what about when it comes to successfully uniting your fur baby with the little one that’s on the way? For starters, don’t panic! Preparation is key in keeping...
Tips for Instilling Strong Leadership Skills in Your Children
No one is a born leader. Great leaders are shaped and nurtured through a combination of life experience, good parenting, and hard work. Parents can do a lot to nurture strong leadership skills in their children. By giving your kids the skills and resources that they...
Tips For Prioritizing Mental Health
What are your priorities? Asking yourself this question and thinking about what is important to you each and every day can help you and your family live happier lives. Answering this question may make you think of a lot of things, but is mental health one of them?...
Starting a Business While Welcoming a Newborn: Tips to Get Started
Image from Unsplash Caring for a newborn may seem daunting enough, but adding a new business can take things up a notch. The good news is that with sufficient planning and organization, you can achieve all your parenting and entrepreneurship goals in one go. Balancing...
Raising Kids To Make Healthy Choices
Image via Pexels Parenting styles and approaches widely vary, but parents share a common goal of raising happy, healthy, and fully functioning humans. Here are helpful strategies to help your child make good decisions. Model Healthy Behaviors Your child’s listening...
How to Flip a Breech Baby
On occasion, our pregnant clients go in for their 36-week check-up and are surprised to learn that their baby is breech. "Breech" is when a baby is in a bottom-down position close to the estimated due date. If a baby is not head down by 39 weeks, this typically...
4 Tips To Get Your Kids Started With Yoga
Credit - Pexels While we tend to think of it exclusively as an adult activity, yoga for kids is exploding in popularity. In fact, according to a recent article from Harvard Health, up to 3% of all school-age children in the United States now practice yoga. This rise...
Why the Conversation Around Mental Health Is Important for Working Parents
Most parents want their kids to confide in them when it comes to mental health. However, the irony is that some parents struggle to open up to their kids about their own mental illnesses. This can be detrimental for a fifth of U.S. teens who have parents with mental...
ChildLight: Who We Are
Did you know that ChildLight has been around for almost two decades?! Our foundational Yoga & Mindfulness for Children Teacher Training was THE original children’s yoga training developed in 2006. Since then, we’ve created 13 different yoga & mindfulness...
Maternal Mental Health 101: 4 Ways Parents Can Recharge
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Parenthood is filled with ups and downs, which means prioritizing self-care is a must. Recharging will allow parents to put their best foot forward every day for their family, friends, and themselves. We've outlined four...
How Can I Be of Service?
“Seva,” means “Service” in Sanskrit. Seva is an integral part of the practice of yoga. It’s one of the gems that gives our practice purpose and meaning beyond the physical. Asana (the practice of yoga postures) is a great place to start on the path of yoga— it helps...
Stop Doing These 15 Things If You Want a Happier, More Fulfilling Life
The days are long but the years are short. That’s why so many people struggle to implement healthy habits in their everyday lives and come to regret it later on. But did you know that you don’t have to settle for a mediocre, unfulfilling life? By adopting healthy...
Benefits Of Yoga For Kids
Despite what many believe, yoga is not just for adults! Childlight promotes yoga for kids. Yoga can instill important life skills in young children, which can put them on the path for success in the real world. In fairness to kids, we understand that they are...
6 Life Lessons Yoga Teaches Kids
When we think of introducing kids to yoga, we normally consider the most obvious physical health benefits of the exercise regimen, like increased flexibility, balance, improved connection between mind and body, and the sheer fun of folding into different poses. All of...
4 Ways to Achieve Mental Wellness
Mental health conditions are becoming more prevalent in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.7 percent of adults reported feelings of depression and 11.2 percent reported feelings of anxiety, nervousness, and...