As parents, we teach our children to care for their bodies and brush their teeth, but we never really teach them how to maintain their mental and emotional health. Extensive research confirms that just a few minutes of meditation each day calms the mind, body and spirit. When family members have a peaceful place inside themselves, they naturally get along better with each other and those in their world. For both children and adults, everyday obstacles become more workable and our natural harmony is easily regained.

Using firsthand experience with her own family of seven, Kerry Lee MacLean shows how important it is for families to regroup on a daily basis to briefly check in with themselves and each other, bringing a stillness of mind and heart to all they experience throughout the day.

"This is a marvelous little book. It is inspiring and touching and one of the clearest, simplest introductions to meditation that I have ever seen -- for children or adults."
-- Jeremy Hayward, author of Sacred World.

Kerry Lee MacLean has been practicing meditation for thirty years with renowned meditation masters Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. She received her BA in contemplative Psychology from Naropa University and has directed the Colorado Shambhala Children's Rites of Passage Meditative Arts courses for nine years. She has been teaching family and child meditation programs for over sixteen years, and is the happy mother of five very decent human beings.

87 pages. Paperback.