We get yet another opportunity to celebrate our children, and the Children of the World. Even if you don’t have children of your own, or maybe you’re an empty nester by now, you can still take this day (June 1, 2025) and celebrate a child in whatever way resonates with you. 

Here are my recommendations to celebrate and honor the children in your life: 

1. READ THESE BOOKS: 

Parenting from the Inside Out, by Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell 
Hold On to Your Kids, by Gabor Mate and Gordon Neufeld 
Playful Parenting, by Larry Cohen 
Listen, by Patty Wipfler & Tosha Schore 
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt 
Conscious Parenting of Your Toddler, by Mihaela Plugarasu 

2. LISTEN TO THESE PODCASTS 

Diary of a CEO, episode with Erica Komisar, attachment expert and clinical social worker 
The Huberman Lab, episode with Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist 
Moms Moving On, Is Divorce Messing Up My Kids? How to Keep Your Kids Emotionally Healthy Through a Divorce, with Mihaela Plugarasu (click here) 
The Real Talk, Conscious Co- Parenting VS. Parental Alienation with Mihaela Plugarasu (click here) 
MindArchitect (in Romanian language), Atașamentul și Autenticitatea in Relația Părinte-Copil, cu Mihaela Plugarasu 

3. ENROLL IN MY MASTERCLASSES, free on my platform (click here) 

From Angry & Exhausted to Calm & Connected; Learn my ABC-formula for Conscious Parenting 
Conscious Co-Parenting: 5 Principles to Find Your Peace; Learn how to co-parent in peace after divorce 

On Children, 

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.