Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Acknowledgments
6. Epigraph
7. Introduction to the Revised Edition
8. Prologue—jkz
9. Prologue—mkz
10. PART ONE   The Danger and the Promise
    1. The Challenge of Parenting
    2. What Is Mindful Parenting?
    3. How Can I Do This?
11. PART TWO   Sir Gawain and the Loathely Lady: The Story Holds the Key
    1. Sir Gawain and the Loathely Lady
12. PART THREE   The Foundations of Mindful Parenting
    1. Sovereignty
    2. Empathy
    3. Acceptance
13. PART FOUR   Mindfulness: A Way of Seeing
    1. Parenting Is the Full Catastrophe
    2. Live-in Zen Masters
    3. An Eighteen-Year Retreat
    4. The Importance of Practice
    5. Breathing
    6. Practice as Cultivation
    7. Free Within Our Thinking
    8. Discernment versus Judging
    9. Formal Practice
    10. Letters to a Young Girl Interested in Zen
    11. The Stillness Between Two Waves
14. PART FIVE   A Way of Being
    1. Pregnancy
    2. Birth
    3. Well-Being
    4. Nourishment
    5. Soul Food
    6. The Family Bed
15. PART SIX   Resonances, Attunement, and Presence
    1. Resonances
    2. Attunement
    3. Touch
    4. Toddlers
    5. Time
    6. Presence
    7. Jack and the Beanstalk
    8. Bedtime
    9. Gathas and Blessings
16. PART SEVEN   Choices
    1. Healing Moments
    2. Who’s the Parent, Who’s the Child?
    3. Family Values
    4. Consuming Choices
    5. Media Madness
    6. Balance
17. PART EIGHT   Realities
    1. Boys
    2. Pond Hockey
    3. Wilderness Camping
    4. Softball Breaks through the Gloom
    5. Girls
    6. Tatterhood—“I Will Go as I Am”
    7. Advocacy, Assertiveness, Accountability
    8. Mindfulness in the Classroom—Getting to Know Yourself in School
18. PART NINE   Limits and Openings
    1. Expectations
    2. Surrender
    3. Limits and Openings
    4. Minding Our Own Business
    5. It’s Always Your Move
    6. Branch Points
19. PART TEN   Darkness and Light
    1. Impermanence
    2. The River of Buried Grief
    3. Hanging by a Thread
    4. Losing It
    5. No Guarantees
    6. Lost
    7. It’s Never Too Late
20. EPILOGUE   Four Mindfulness Practices, Seven Intentions, and Twelve Exercises for Mindful Parenting
    1. Four Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Life
    2. Seven Intentions for Mindful Parenting
    3. Twelve Exercises for Mindful Parenting
21. Also by Jon Kabat-Zinn
22. Praise for Everyday Blessings
23. Suggested Reading
24. Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn
25. Copyright Acknowledgments
26. Newsletters
27. Copyright