Mindful Parenting is a development-driven, relationship-focused approach to the cultivation of resilient, healthy and secure parent-child bonds.  Mindful Parenting promotes childhood attachment security and allows parents to slow down, reflect, and practice mindful observation―about their own emotional experiences as well as those of their young children. Mindful Parenting is is a therapeutic approach to enhance a parent’s capacity to make meaning of the thoughts, feelings, intentions, and behaviors of his or her child. By giving meaning to a child’s emotional experience, and ‘‘representing’’ this experience to him/her in a regulated fashion, the parent sets the stage for the development of a sense of security and safety in the child.

MPG places an emphasis on increasing the behavioral quality, psychological involvement and affective tone of young children’s primary caregiving relationships, as well as parental resilience, supportive social connections, knowledge of respectful parenting practices, and of child development.