I’ve been spending quite a bit of time looking for ways to expand the minds of children and babies. I’d like to share a 2 hour video of Mozart for babies, which I know will be just as wonderful for anyone to listen to in addition to all of the babies out there! They actually recommend this for helping babies go to sleep, but I think it is also very calming in general. Please check out Two hours of Mozart for babies, which can be downloaded by clicking the link in the video for only 99 cents. There are also videos for other classical music by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. Music is such a wonderful way to awaken the mind, so awaken yours, and your babies minds! I’m investigating and researching methods of learning to read, and have had a few ideas of my own about early reading skills, and I will post on that soon. In actuality, I’m learning new reading skills for myself as well. I’d love to hear any ideas or suggestions you might have, as well as any questions you’d like answered about reading skills for our young ones. Please post a comment in either case. Here’s to our babes’ wonderful minds…
Tag Archives: Kids On Autopilot
When your kids lie
When your kids lie, how does it make you feel? How do you respond as the parent? Our response is based on our own beliefs, experiences, subconscious programs that we formed at an early age. Your child’s response is based on their own beliefs, experiences, subconscious programs that they have formed from an early age. What is the best way to deal with lying? Tell your kids, “Don’t lie to me?” What that does, is trigger an automatic response from your child. Fear, remembering what has happened in the past when they lied. If past experiences told them that they only got in trouble for telling a lie, will they want to be honest? As parents, one of the first things we need to look at is our own responses to situations and events. What is our subconscious programming causing us to do? How can we respond differently and create a new habit, new subconscious programming that works for us instead of against us? Here is a video from postinstitute.com that can be extremely helpful in how you respond to your child’s lies, and explains how to respond instead, that will help them to change the limiting beliefs that they have about what happens to them when they do lie to you. Practicing the technique in this video, over and over, until it becomes automatic (you are on autopilot), will enable your parenting skills to improve dramatically in these situations.
Here’s to beginning to end our children’s lying, and improving our parenting!
How your young child can deal with their negative emotions
Parents, caregivers, teachers, counselors, etc. struggle to find ways to help young children deal with their negative emotions. Today I am sharing some fairly unknown information that I have found to be extremely helpful for you and your young children in dealing with unhappy or negative feelings. I also am sharing a helpful link which relates to the rights of parents regarding labeling children, and the more prevalent prescribing and use of psychotropic drugs with children/kids. Schools have become more aggressive in labeling children, which is resulting in more frequent drug use through referral of these labeled kids for intense testing and to doctors and therapists for treatment.
I offered similar information in one of my Facebook comments yesterday. A post by Natural Parents Network was inviting other NPN followers to offer help to a parent who is having issues with her child in school, and regarding drugs prescribed to her child. You can read details by going directly to the NPN post.
Here is the information I offered:
EFT (Emotional Field Therapy) EFT is a great, free, easy-to-learn treatment that you and your young children can learn to do to help modify negative emotions of any kind, in addition to helping subdue and heal physical pain and ailments. EFT can be done by both children and adults. The EFT technique uses tapping on energy meridian points (similar to acupuncture, but with no needles). EFT tapping helps to eliminate disruption in your body’s energy circuits, and those disruptions of energy create negative emotions and physical imbalance as well. Think of it as when your car is not running on all of its cylinders or misfiring, and therefore the car runs very poorly, wastes gas, etc. Your body’s energy system misfires as well, and EFT will bring back smooth flow and balance of your energy system. EFT practitioners can help with this, but you can also learn to do it yourself, and so can your kids. Here is a video just for kids “tapping”, from Karin Davidson, that will give you a better understanding of this useful technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1efrIBI9BY
The coolest thing is, once this simple technique is learned, a young child can even go through the tapping sequence in their head, not even actually physically tapping or speaking aloud, and it has the same effect. So if they are around other people, they can visualize the tapping in their head, without anyone else being aware of it, eliminating any embarrassment. EFT is for everyone, as we all have negative emotions, fears, stress, sadness, anger, anxiousness, etc. at some point. I HIGHLY recommend EFT for everyone. It has been found that this technique works whether you believe it will, or not, so it is definitely worth while to try out. It can be used anytime and even can make falling asleep easier.
Here are a couple of other children tapping(EFT) videos Karin Davidson has:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHnhOEEa2BQ This is an amazing video from an elementary school teacher and offers detail on how he uses EFT in his classrooms. It is a wonderful way to treat bullying, amongst other school and social situations that young children’s feelings and emotions can create.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f__Vmv-Nr6s, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW-d2qK_jH8
With regard to psychotropic drugs being prescribed to young children, I suggest everyone check out Ablechild: a 501(c)3 non profit, is nationally recognized as a parent’s rights organization dedicated to protecting children and families by ensuring parents are fully informed about the improper labeling of children with ADHD, the dangers of psychotropic drugs and the right to refuse psychiatric services. Ablechild educates parents on the risks associated with drugging children and promotes a label and drug free education in our schools.
I hope these suggestions help and I encourage anyone to offer comments about these children’s issues or about EFT or Ablechild by clicking here: “Leave a Comment”. I invite you to subscribe to my blog as well.