Parenting Preschoolers: Can Mindfulness Help?

Mindfulness

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 282-285

  Bluth, Karen ^a   Wahler, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mindfulness; Parenting; Parenting effort; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867745149     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-011-0071-4     Document Type: Article

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