สวัสดี Sawadee!
Sawadee (hello) and w elcome to my blog! I have recently received a Fulbright Scholar Award and will be spending the next 6+ months in Thailand working at The National Institute for Child and Family Development and the Contemplative Education Center at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom, which is a little over an hour's drive from the heart of Bangkok. Coincidentally, Nakhon Pathom is a city where I served several months of my LDS mission 40 years ago! I am so excited to work with my colleagues at the university as we serve parents and other caregivers of children with autism or cerebral palsy. We will offer a 5-week course on mindful parenting and self-care skills and will study the effects of this intervention on their stress and depression. We hope the culturally relevant and simple skills we will teach them will offer these parents greater insights, more peace, and better relationships with their children, especially because decades of research indicate parent...