Enter your email Address

happinessandjoylessons.com
  • Home/Contact
    • About Michele
    • Contact Form
  • Book: Awakening Joy For Kids
    • Awakening Joy For Kids Book
    • Press release for Awakening Joy For Kids – My first book with James Baraz
  • Blog (fresh new posts)
  • Free Living Lessons
    • Building Grit
    • Summer camp and anxiety – Here are some helpful tips and a free audio
    • Gratitude at the end of the school year. It is good for all of us.
    • Loving Yourself- Be your own Valentine!
    • Teens: Creating Happy Memories- Toads
    • November 11th: May You Be Peaceful
    • Peace, Contentment, Love: Writing and Dancing a Rap
    • Let It Snow- Evoking Happy Memories
    • Monday morning – 30 grade sixes? Self Regulation – YES
    • For Parents
      • Chores – The inside scoop from kids
      • How to Give Presence During the Holiday Season
      • Teens: Creating Happy Memories- Toads
      • Date Yourself- Keys to nourishing Muma and Papa
      • Walking Meditation With Children
      • Seeing Mindfully In A Digital Age
      • Appreciating the Natural World
      • But will it work with preschoolers?
  • Links for learning
    • Interviews and Webinars
      • Podcast Interview: Kris Welch KPFA radio California
      • Interview with James Baraz and Michele Lilyanna on Awakening Joy with Kids
      • Video: When times are difficult by Michele Lilyanna
    • Audio Recording
      • Stormy Weather- Relaxing mindfulness for families and kids
      • Summer Camp – Relaxing Audio
      • Mindfulness recording ” From the inside out”
      • I Just Can’t Get To Sleep: My First Audio- Freely Given To You
      • Sleep My Child- Audio Recording
      • Relaxing meditation for Muma and Papa at the end of the day.
      • Happy New Year 2016: Free Mindfulness Recording
    • Book Suggestions
      • Helpful books and websites for teachers and parents!
      • Resource books for adults
      • Children’s books
        • Book Review: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
        • How Do Dinosaurs Say I’m Mad? Book review and lessons.
  • Testimonials
    • Testimonials
December 15, 2015

How to Give Presence During the Holiday Season

  • miclil3
  • 815 Views
  • 0 Likes
  • No Comments
  • Awakening Joy in Kids, Parents, caregivers, presence

Remembering back on my own childhood, the actual presents fade into the background and the sights, scents and sounds come flooding in as memories.  The holiday Season can become so focussed on presents that presence is quite frankly forgotten.

I took the time to sit with my own happy memories and added them to what a group of children told me.   Here are 12 secrets keys to a child’s heart and maybe yours too! Not one costs more than your presence.  Happy Holidays- Love  Michele

Presence

IMG_0184

I just love to just snuggle.  I want to lay on my Mum’s heart and hear it beat. Her nightgown is soft.

I love baking together.  I don’t always know how to read it all but I like putting the cookies on the tray and licking the batter.

IMG_0889

My best is going with my parents to the tree farm and taking our time while we pick out a tree.  They have hot chocolate there too and it smells so good.

I like it when we sing carols and songs around the piano.  My Mom lets us take turns and we each play. My Dad plays by ear and only knows one or two songs but that is okay.

We lay by the fire and give each other foot massages.

I like to play in the snow with the whole family.  We build lots of stuff, get cold and then go in and warm up.

2014-02-25 12.28.22

I love wrapping time.  I get my Dad all to myself and he shows me how to get the corners straight and the tape on right.  We talk about how excited everyone will be.

We go for drives and look at all the pretty lights.  We live by the water so I can see the reflections.

We have a big tub of special holiday books we keep on a shelf in the cupboard.  We bring them out and snuggle up.  I love reading them every year.

For me it is being with the whole big family.  I get to see my cousins, aunts and uncles and best of all my grandparents.  Everyone is laughing a lot.

My Grandma makes the same cookies every year and I know it is special.  I feel so happy to eat them.  

I like all the candles.  We just sit in the light and they twinkle.

SNOW-14

 

  • For another classroom lesson on wiring happy memories into the brain and evoking happy memories, please click here.  
Share
childrenEVOKING HAPPY MEMORIESplaypresence
About Author
miclil3

    Previous Post Gratitude- 2 games for home or school
    Next Post Happy New Year 2016- Free Mindfulness Recording
    Related Posts
    • If fear and confusion is in the driver’s seat, James Baraz and Michele Lilyanna have some tips for inner peace
      November 10, 2016
    • Seeds of Gratitude
      January 4, 2014

    Comments are closed.

    michele@happinessandjoylessons.com

    Happiness and Joy Newsletter

    Sign up and subscribe
    * = required field
    unsubscribe from list

    More joyful posts