The recent empirical studies have offered ample evidence for the deficits
of self-regulation and emotion regulation for negative parenting. Consistent
with these evidence, interventions designed to teach strategies to facilitate
self-regulation and emotional regulation is needed and effects of mindfulness
and self-compassion skills as regulatory strategies on parenting has been
examined. Mindful parenting is a meta-cognitive process that encompasses
both the intrapersonal and interpersonal processes on parenting. Self-compassion
is an adaptive way of self-to-self relating with kindness and compassionate
attitude in suffering. Although the growing number of research on
self-compassion, a few parenting programs have adopted self-compassion as
an explicit component within the intervention. Mindfulness and self-compassion
has good effects on improvement of self-regulation and emotional regulation
in parenting, but the combination of two components into parenting
program has not been tried. Mindfulness and self-compassion are related to
cognitive, emotional, behavioral mechanisms underlying mothering. In line
with this facts, the integration mindfulness and self-compassion into parenting
program have significant clinical contributions to parenting. Finally, this
study discussed the therapeutic implications of integration mindfulness and
self-compassion into parenting program and future research suggestions.