Recently one afternoon I was at my wit's end with the girls and the verge of losing my cool. I didn't want to yell, but it was one of those parenting moments we've all experienced when our kids...

Making Compassion a Habit
Recently one afternoon I was at my wit's end with the girls and the verge of losing my cool. I didn't want to yell, but it was one of those parenting moments we've all experienced when our kids...
Last year a friend told me about a unique journal called "One Line a Day," which spans a 5-year period. Each page in the journal is for a particular month and day (e.g., January 1)...
Mindful Littles and MySustainableTable teamed up again for another Cookin' for a Cause event, and this time we got to make over 300 meals for the Bay Area Rescue Mission. The Bay Area Rescue...
Making mandala ornaments was a really fun and easy mindfulness activity to do with the littles. I got small wood slices with jute twine from Amazon, thinking it...
Empowering our children to lead with compassion includes teaching them how to practice generosity.
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Food. One of the most important and basic human needs, and yet 1 in 9 people are chronically undernourished in the world- around 795 million people according to the United Nations. The...
November 13th is WORLD KINDNESS DAY and as part of OrindaCares, we have some exciting initiatives planned to celebrate this...
Turn a simple pumpkin craft into a gratitude project this Halloween.
For this activity, you can follow the craft -making instructions from this great free resource here.
For...
My younger daughter turned three earlier this month, and in keeping with our new birthday tradition I wanted us to do three acts of kindness in honor of her third birthday. We kept the acts...
The silver lining to a disaster is the power of community coming together to create positive change. After kickstarting our OrindaCares: Helping Hands for Houston project just 5 weeks ago, we...