So what does the The Wolverine have to do with Parenting and Mindfulness? Take a look...

The Wolverine scared? Nah! Hugh Jackman?!? Well, yes, actually he was.

As a child he said  “I had a lot of fears. I was afraid of heights; I was afraid of the dark; I was afraid of what people thought—and I hated the prison of that fear.”

He struggled with that all throughout childhood and into adulthood. Then he found a solution. It was the same solution I found when I started this mission to create MindEDU.

I was a single dad and had just been given primary custody of my beautiful identical twin two year-old daughters. Working difficult long hours, short on sleep, the girls with me almost full time, wondering if I was providing enough nurturing, living off my remaining dwindling savings with no income and no support, it was a lot of stress.

I knew stress could be a killer for me, eventually. But the science about what stress would do to my daughters at such a young age and how devastating it can be, I knew I had to do something.

There's a very long list of successful people who are near disciples about this same solution. Just to name a few. Bill and Melinda Gates, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, LeBron James, Tom Hanks. I could go on and on and on.

And it can work for you to deal with the inevitable stress we all feel from being a parent. The solution? Mindfulness.