2015年3月11日 星期三

Be mindful -- “Ten Mindful Minutes”


Only by spotting “Ten Mindful Minutes” at library did I realize Goldie Hawn, the American actress, is actually the author and founder of the MindUP program to foster mindfulness training for both kids and parents and supporting various researches on the benefits of mindfulness.
Its Chinese version is translated as 陪孩子靜心十分鐘






Based in neuroscience, mindfulness and positive psychology, MindUP™ teaches children greater emotional self-control, resiliency and helps develop better decision-making skills.


 Even for us parents, we can practice mindfulness in controlling our emotion. I love the quotes  below:



“I can’t think of a better way to become better parents than to nurture ourselves and our ability to be mindful to gain greater insight and understanding as to who we are as people."


“If a peaceful child can create a peaceful world, then a peaceful parent can create a peaceful child”


“Parenting is like a relay race in which you run alongside your child for the first eighteen years”


 “all we can hope is that our children experience more positive than negative effects from our parenting and become the healthy pilots of their own lives.”


The book offers simple and handy tips on how we could teach our kids how the brain works and some practices we can do at home with our kids to be more mindful, optimistic, be grateful and controlling our anger.


Here are some easy to follow tips:

Kindness


l   A kind act a day – making a kind act chain


Empathy


l   Seeing from different angle or height


l   Drawing pictures from different side



Sadness/Anger


l   Use Traffic light analogy


l   Ask them to draw or write about their feelings


Fear


l   Put fear in a box


l   Acknowledge your fears to them  and rate a scale of 10


Gratitude


l   Gratitude jar/box



Optimism


l   Half full water story




Mindful sensing

l   Play I spy

l   Mindful eating
l   Mindful awareness  -- (eg) cleaning tooth

2015年3月9日 星期一

吉澳、鴨洲一天遊


位處香港偏遠的東北水域,鄰近沙頭角及深圳田的吉澳和鴨洲,絕對是帶小孩上一課絕佳地質課的旅遊點。

 


這兩個偏遠小島位處有香港小桂林之稱的印洲塘海,這裡大小島嶼星羅棋布,人跡罕至,只能參加旅行團,或持特區紙從沙頭角乘街渡才可達。


我們從馬料水啟程,穿過赤門海峽,看過黃竹角咀的鬼手岩,入直門頭水道及印洲塘,去數一數那印塘六寶,船程要一小時半,但幸好風平浪靜,一點也不晃。其實整個海岸都被群山環抱,海面平靜,景色優美,難得今天只得我們一團人。

 

我們先上吉澳吃午飯,品嘗名的手打墨,蒸昌魚、蝦等。整個小島已十室九空,很多房子都荒廢了,連屋頂也塌下,只剩下二十多戶人家,據說以往曾繁盛一時,三百年前已有人從廣州逃避苛政而來捕魚。

 

小島面積不大,我們三人先不隨團自行探索,在碼頭的唯一攤販處買了砵仔糕、番薯糕、糯米  等。石灘上可拾到很多乾掉的珊瑚。然後再沿大街走往炮台、天后廟,廟前有棵長相有趣的姻緣樹,兩姐弟就在這棵樹下直玩了半句鐘,也沒有再隨團上山頂了。這隱世漁村小島若稍為修整,一定可媲美國外的渡假小島。

 

吃了豆腐花後,再上船,不須五分鐘,就到達對面的鴨洲,這小島更小,像隻鴨子般,但岸上卻有一家小學,說是全港面積最小又有人居住的小島,現在只餘二十多人在此居住。


我們步往最有趣的海蝕拱——鴨眼洞。受到海浪長期沖刷,該處岩石的兩邊海蝕洞被打通成長12米、闊2米、高2米的海蝕拱「島上岩石由多種沉積岩組成,包括角礫岩、礫岩及砂岩,均含豐富鐵氧化物,呈褐紅色。由於角礫岩粗糙多節,易受侵蝕,形成了多種海蝕地貌,包括海崖、海蝕平台、海蝕凹地、海蝕拱及海蝕柱等。


兩姐弟拾小石子拾得不亦樂乎,還帶了石隙中的面包蟹回家呢! 

他們都頻說這天的小島遊好玩,因為很少踏足這種偏遠地區,他們說有去探險的感覺,弟弟還在船上時懂得問我們如何應用擬人法去描寫對面的小島。

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