Mindful parenting calls us to wake up to the possibilities, the benefits, and the challenges of parenting with a new awareness and intentionality, not only as if what we did mattered, but as if our conscious engagement in parenting were virtually the most important thing we could be doing, both for our children and for ourselves. — Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn, Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting