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Self-Esteem – Part 3

Self-Esteem – Part 3

Take heed what you put in your minds & who you surround yourselves with

Do you have your inner armor on so that when someone speaks negatively against you, it doesn’t pierce you?

Do you speak negatively to or about yourself to others and do you allow others to speak negatively to or about you?

i.e.: you make a mistake and say to yourself, “Stupid! How’d you do that!” This is a negative affirmation.

Never should that word come out of our mouths in dealing with anyone, especially ourselves! And never allow anyone to belittle you.…

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Childhood Obesity: Destruction From Within

Childhood Obesity: Destruction From Within

As I take a look around at the news and news documentaries on obesity, it seems that the most serious threats to the welfare and well-being of American youth may not be a terrorist attack, but rather the succumbing to the effects of astutely targeted food advertisement, fast food restaurants marketers, and the video game industry. How so? All of the aforementioned contribute to the ongoing epidemic of childhood obesity. Let’s examine some of the facts related to the growing numbers of overweight and obese children.

For too long, Western society has used food as …

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The Wonder and Awe of a Child – My Dad’s Greatest Gift to Me

The Wonder and Awe of a Child – My Dad’s Greatest Gift to Me

My dad was a special just because he was my dad, but because he had an awe and wonder of the world that was infectious. He never lost that childlike awe of the world around him.

I remember going to a business meeting with Dad in Wichita, Kansas. After the meeting he stopped at a convenience store, purchased some sandwiches and drinks, then drove to the airport. He parked the car along one of the sidings and we watched the airplanes takeoff and land.

Whenever a …

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5 Tips For Boosting Confidence in Early Childhood Education

5 Tips For Boosting Confidence in Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education is the foundation of learning in the first part of a child’s life, also known as the formative years. This is generally from birth to age eight. The formative years are the most vulnerable times as this is the time when the character is formed. What a child learns and experiences between birth and eight, will make or break his or her confidence. ECD teachers can help to build a child with a strong character that will adjust easily to all situations in life. It is important to …

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Categories: Family Relationships

How To Keep Children Entertained During Travel

Traveling with children can be a difficult thing to do, especially if you are planning a long trip in the car or a plane ride. Kids are usually pretty well behaved in the beginning, but as they become bored and stir crazy they will also start to be more fussy and ornery. These tips will help you keep them happy next time you are traveling:
Invest in a portable DVD player. It is amazing to see how long kids can be entertained by a simple little machine! Bringing a portable DVD player along with several of their favorite movies is …

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Categories: Mom and Baby Yoga

How To Create An Enlightened Generation From Home Using The Law Of Attraction?

The world is always trying to modify the character and attitudes of adults – what a backward way of changing the world. Lets take a different approach and start to target our children with the law of attraction. At a young age children have no preconceived ideas, they have not become cynical through their life experiences – they are a blank canvas waiting for us to splash wonderful colours upon. It is our duty to introduce the law of attraction to them and there is no better place to start than in our homes.

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Today’s Education

Today’s Education

What is education? Education is a process of learning new skills, knowledge and values. Education starts when we are still a baby in our mothers’ womb. Education never ends; it follows us until our very last breathe. Through education, we become a better person.

Teachers are provided to teach us. They are capable to teach us reading, writing, history, science and mathematics. Lessons are either taught in English or Malay in most educational institutions.

There are 4 common types of education:

1. Primary Education. Also known as Elementary School. Consisting about 5-7 years of studies, starting from the …

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How to Combat Childhood Obesity

How to Combat Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is out of control in the United States today. Statistics show the number of children between 6 and 11 who are obese have doubled since 1980. Being over weight as a child will lead to an adult having many diseases that could have been preventable if they would have maintained a healthy weight as a child. Childhood obesity can be prevented if you follow some of the simple rules below:

First, teach your children the sound rules of nutrition. Start them at an early age eating healthy food. Do not use food as …

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A Day at the Lake

A Day at the Lake

Darren and Jamie crossed the police tape and surveyed the lake, or what was left of it. What was once a crystalline spherical mirror was now a massive crater, half a mile across, looking like the aftermath of a meteoric impact. Jamie smiled gleefully as he overlooked the scene; Darren didn’t share his enthusiasm.

“What did they say happened here again Jamie?”

“Not sure. A sinkhole or something.”

“What’s a sinkhole?”

“Dunno. My Dad said they were making a mine underground, and they accidentally drilled into the bottom of the lake. Drained the whole thing …

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4 Positives Of Early Learning With Toddlers

4 Positives Of Early Learning With Toddlers

Early learning has been recognized as an integral part of child rearing for some time now – and with the advent of the internet, it has only become more and more important. Children need to be prepared for the life when they enter school. The problem is that a lot of parents do not know much about it or are skeptical of it – preferring their children to develop at a natural pace and not wanting to interfere. However, this is not true – children need to be nurtured from a young age …

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Categories: Mom and Baby Yoga

There Will Be A Mess, One Way Or The Other!

Covered in sand the children ran to greet their guests as they heard the scrunch of tyres in their driveway.
As the mother stepped from the car she was horrified,
“How on earth do you stand the mess! We could never have a sandpit. I loathe the stuff and Tony would never cope with it in the house.”
Her children stood, gazing with longing eyes at the sand and were too overwhelmed to utter a word.
The hostess invited them inside where she had set up a table for the children to enjoy a time of painting and gluing. Smocks …

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Categories: Financial Family

Photograph Psychology – What Stance You Make Says So Much About You

In this day and age, only a handful of people do not possess a camera. Be it from a build-it cell phone camera to those hard to understand not to mention expensive SLRs. It is time to check out if the people you have captured are actually telling a hidden story.
Most of the time you’d whip up a camera when there is a family gathering right? Try to analyze this situation when capturing family portraits:
– Do they stick so closely together?
– Is there one member who stands a little away from the entire group?
– Are there …

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Child Waist Line Number Helps Overweight Parents Stop Overeating Children – The Waist + 17 Rule

Child Waist Line Number Helps Overweight Parents Stop Overeating Children – “The Waist + 17 Rule”

It is very normal for parents to erect barriers to prevent them from enforcing eating rules in their children. Parents are used to feeding and nourishing their young and have great difficulties recognizing that their child is overeating. Doing something about it is even more difficult.

The latest US government statistics show that among the 335 million Americans 64% of the women and 74% of the adult men are either overweight or obese. About 34% of children and teens fall into these groups. That …

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How To Cope With Children’s Panic Attacks

How To Cope With Children’s Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are extremely frightening and distressing whether you are the one having it or are in the presence of someone having one. Add to this the extreme upset and worry you will be feeling if the one who is experiencing this is a child and in particular your own child.

Children’s panic attacks can occur in many different ways, but they frequently mean that the child has difficulty breathing, they may feel the need to run away, possibly tingling or numbness in the toes or fingers, palpitations or even feeling that they …

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Categories: Love Daddy

A Conversation With Dad – The Shock That Rocked My World

When you show up with love in your heart, what is returned to you is pure love.
While I knew this piece of universal wisdom to be true, I never experienced it so profoundly as I did the other day. I flew to Miami to see my aging ailing Father. I have a good, although not very close, relationship with Dad.
My childhood was tumultuous. My parents went through a long drawn out battle of a divorce that left a lot of emotional debris. My father, who was a renowned neuro-psychiatrist went on to make some horrendous decisions in his …

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De-clutter Your Life Inside and Out and Create a Happier Life

Reflect on your families’ present state. In many cases you know that  you need to change the way you are managing your family. You can’t always put your finger on what is making you frustrated, unsettled or down. Your own desires can be muddied by concern for your children or spouse and by simply being out of touch with your feelings.

I find that the best way to do this is to write down my thoughts, concerns and desires. 

I know that this is not easy …

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10 Tips For Managing and Organizing Your Family

As a mom, you can feel more like a drill sergeant or chauffeur than family manager. But the truth is, you are the CEO of your little brood, so it’s time to act like it! Take a few tips from the professionals and enlist these suggestions to gain better control over your time and your life:
1. Set goals. You need to know what you’re trying to accomplish in a global sense (raise a great family), as well as in a more immediate sense (get the kids out the door on time).
2. Make sure the tasks match the goals. …

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Categories: Family Happiness

Keeping A Happy Home With Family

Every living thing in this world has a family. No one is intended to live alone in this planet. Though some circumstances of losing a family cannot be avoided, other human beings that you might encounter in the future can be your new family. Life is very busy nowadays since crisis is present all over the world. Everybody needs to work hard and focus in earning money in order to survive. As a mother, there are lots of things that you are responsible of inside the house aside from the job you have outside such as doing the household chores, …

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Why Is It Important To Have A Family Lawyer?

Most of us make decisions by just looking at what we have at the moment we need to decide. We never think about what could happen in the future or if ever we do, we imagine it to be how we want things to happen. But the real thing is that, we can never really tell. Today, you may feel like you have made the best decision in your life by getting married and planning to have a baby. But in a few years from now, you might say that you made the worst decision in your life by getting …

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English Language As the Curriculum in Public Schools

English Language As the Curriculum in Public Schools

Linguistics explores the study of structure and language variations encompassing morphology, phonics, syntax and many more. English is the primary language in most countries of the world but in other countries it’s the second language. However, most transactions, policies, books, articles and varsities uses’ the English language as their main language.

The usage of the English language as the primary medium has more pros than cons. Firstly, English is the most common language around the planet; is it spoken and easily understood by many. The language fills the gap and allows people …

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Do You Have a Child With Anxiety? 3 Tips to Ease Their Pain

Do You Have a Child With Anxiety? 3 Tips to Ease Their Pain

Childhood anxiety disorder is the most common of all childhood disorders, yet it often goes unnoticed, and untreated.

Did you know that at least 10% of all children are afflicted by above average amounts of anxiety? It’s more common in girls than boys, but only slightly.

The 3 most common anxiety disorders to afflict children are generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. They all share several of the same symptoms, so it’s often hard to diagnose a child with anxiety disorder.

All children have a degree …

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Why Nursery Gliders Are Important For Babies

A nursery glider is a piece of baby furniture specially designed for the special needs of babies. Next to baby crib , a glider rocking chair is another important furniture in the nursery room. But, you should know that gliders come in different styles and designs. Choose the glider that suits your taste. It is helpful to know the things about baby gliders to help you decide which glider is appropriate for your baby.

Design: A good quality glider …

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Categories: Close Family

Get Saving and Build a Healthy Happy Family

Start saving.
There are three steps to saving.
Firstly you need to save your money. Decide on how much you want to save to be able to pull yourself through difficult times for example disasters, accidents, deaths etc. Then instead of falling into the trap of buying something you think you need now on credit, rather wait, save and buy it later on cash. Anything that you buy on credit ends up costing you much more than the original price was.
Secondly draw up a budget, it helps you see your expenses against your income and helps you not to …

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You Have Been Successful Speaking in the Past, So Why the Fear Now?

You Have Been Successful Speaking in the Past, So Why the Fear Now?

The majority of people who contact me about nervousness in public speaking have always been nervous and are seeking a means for handling their fear. However, I also hear from those who explain that they’ve been successful when addressing an audience in the past but are suddenly now fearful about an upcoming speaking engagement.

We talk and I usually find that something has changed in their life. Perhaps they have a new job; maybe they have gotten a promotion. It might even be something that has nothing …

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Childhood Obesity and the Magic Pill

Childhood Obesity and the Magic Pill

Have you ever wished there was just one thing you could do, one thing you could take to lose weight and improve your health? There’s sooo many weight loss programs, so many exercise machines, Where do you start? What is the right program for me? What is the right program for my children? The answer is in the title of this article ” Childhood obesity and the magic pill” and the answer is not what you think.

In your search for the “Magic Pill” you want to look at your life style, your child’s …

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How to Help Your Child Exercise

How to Help Your Child Exercise

Sometimes a young child will want to exercise and maybe even lift weights. There are different opinions on whether or not this is safe for a 6 to 8 year old. When done properly, this type of exercise can be very beneficial for a young child.

One thing to keep in mind is that a child is not a smaller version of an adult. A child has different emotions, different anatomy, and a different body. You shouldn’t have a small child doing the same routine you are doing.

The skeleton doesn’t mature until a …

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Does Your Husband Feel Left Out? Have You Recently Had a Child?

Does Your Husband Feel Left Out? Have You Recently Had a Child?

You may be wondering what a mother’s and a father’s role is during the first few years of a child’s life. During this time, many men feel left out because the baby requires a lot of attention in those first few critical years. Many couples that attend counseling have this issue come up. Many men feel frustrated and lonely because their wife is not paying them the attention they once did.

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There is no easy way around saying this, but the man’s role during the first year …

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Childhood Obesity Begins Early

Childhood Obesity Begins Early

According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times by Eryn Brown, childhood obesity can begin in a baby as young as nine months old. Although “baby fat” may look cute, it can actually be dangerous. An overweight or obese baby can be predisposed to obesity later in life, according to research published in the American Journal of Health Promotion

A growing epidemic in the United States, childhood obesity has been linked to psychological problems, asthma, cardiovascular troubles and a greater chance of developing diabetes.

In order to understand the factors associated with early childhood …

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The Broadband Internet – Can It Affect Your Family?

Can we accuse broadband for making a happy family becoming happy individuals? To a great extent YES!
This is a story of a happy family that got torn to a mistress called Broadband!
With dial-up network, every moment at home was peaceful. Since mails came slow and went slow, the husband had time for his family. He could easily have a cup of tea in the time his internet got connected. By the time he would sit for work…would be the next relief…i.e…another disconnection! Then, it would be time to play one round of game with kids. Thus, the man …

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Natural Anxiety Relief for Children and Young Adults

Natural Anxiety Relief for Children and Young Adults

Many children and young adults struggle with anxiety symptoms. The following is in response to a teenager who wondered if it was more difficult for someone her age to overcome anxiety symptoms.

There are a few essential facts which should be acknowledged when treating anxiety during the formative and young adult years.

Anxiety in Children and Young Adults:

1- Changes in mind and body are the norm at this time, rather than not. Expect to experience changes in the way you feel, your moods, and attitudes. This is all par for the …

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Categories: Balance Work and Family Tips

How To Keep Your Man Happy

Sounds like a 1950’s how to booklet on relationships, right? Well it’s not, but back then they had things right. Our grandparents learned long ago how to keep a marriage long and happy. They had the right priorities; families come first.
In today’s society, we have a me mentality or a what can I do for me, or more specifically, what can you do for me? And sometimes we don’t care who we screw over to get what we want. Even our spouses.
Not only are we more concerned about ourselves, we are also impatient to find out what comes …

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How to Find a Good Balance

How much TV is your tot watching?
Babies should watch as little TV as possible. New studies show that there is a huge difference in the amount of television that toddlers in child-care centers watch compared to stay at home kids. Children staying home watch almost 3 times more television than kids going to day care.
How to find a good balance? Stay at home moms are proud to be full time with their kids and not send them to day care, while stressing for not having any time for themselves.
Moms that work full time are fulfilled by their …

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Categories: Close Family

Giving Up Self-Defeating Legacies

No pain, no gain! Those words were drummed into me by my father so many times, I long ago stopped counting up the reasons why he said what he said. Despite the untruth of them, after a while, they started to sink in. Do anything long enough, and it will become your habit, even the phrases you think with, and that influence the way you feel about your life. For the first forty years of my life, his words determined how I felt, what I did, and how I reacted to circumstances, but not in the way he would have …

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How To Save Cost On Funeral Services

Funeral expenses are overwhelming and frightening intuitively. You need to hire reliable, supportive, and affordable funeral services to give your loved one a decent send-off in the time of grief. No family should be denied the opportunity to honor a loved one properly. Creating a warm and inviting environment should be your number one priority.

You should hire funeral services that consider you a visitor to their funeral home. As a visitor, you deserve pleasant services equipped with all …

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Childhood Obesity Statistics – Where Does it End?

Childhood Obesity Statistics – Where Does it End?

Childhood obesity statistics is not a rosy picture. Type 2 diabetes is a predictable outcome for more than 9 million children who are obese. This trend is not only an America problem but now a world wide epidemic. Obese children have grown from 15% in 1971 to over 30% in 2000. A study in childhood obesity in 1999- 2000 found that 16% of young people 6 to 19 years were overweight.

Why the increase in obese children?

Doctors are now blaming lifestyle as the main cause for the alarming rise in overweight …

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Childhood Asthma and Breast Feeding

Childhood Asthma and Breast Feeding

For the first 6 months of a child’s life breast feeding provides all the nutrients a baby needs. The antibodies in breast milk protects against infections. Did you know that breast feeding can even reduce a newborn babies risk of developing eczema, childhood diabetes and even leukemia. Many researchers also believe that breast feeding can prevent asthma, however there are many who also believe that it causes asthma.

Scientific Beliefs

1. Breast milk majorly helps to develop and protect a babies lungs. The reason breast milk protects against infection is that when a baby is …

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Celebrities and Self-Image

You know when you are feeling down and depressed so you pick up a magazine and check out the glossy photos to pass the time and take your mind off of your feelings.
What do you see? Celebrities looking all glammed up and you think “my life completely sucks. Look at these beautiful people! They go to fancy restaurants, they don’t have to go to a dead end job like mine, working with people who don’t care about anyone but themselves.” WHY CAN’T I BE LIKE THEM?
Okay, before you reach for sharp objects let’s take a look at a …

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Categories: Family Tips for Saving Money

Your Home Business and Your Family

When you make that decision to work from home, either as a home based business owner, or a freelancer, you must make sure your family understands, what does that means.
The fact that you’re at home all day, doesn’t mean that you’re not working and can take care of all the chores as well. You must set aside hours when you will work, and let your family know, that now it is your work time and they must not disturb you. It is perfect if you have your own room – you can close the door and let your children …

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Living In Your Father’s Shadow

For men, living in your father’s shadow can be one of the most soul destructive positions to be in. It will strip your will and the joy out of your life. It places you in a no-win situation. Imagine being Donald Trump Junior; how can you ever outdo Donald Trump? Are you going to be able to make more money? Be more famous? Or be more controversial? For some sons the choice is to go the opposite direction. They become alcoholics and drug abusers to get out from under the shadow.
Men live under a double-edged sword, one of love …

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Know the Water Damage Restoration Costs Before You Hire a Company

Before hiring a water damage restoration company, you should know what to look for. First, you want to ensure that they have the proper training and equipment to deal with your type of water damage. Also, be sure to ask whether the people working for the company are certified. It is also good to find out if they have insurance and a 24-hour emergency number. Lastly, it would help if you asked for testimonials from previous clients. You can …

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Childhood Obesity! Is it an Eye Problem?

Childhood Obesity! Is it an Eye Problem?

As a baby you are fed everything you is til you master the motor control of your hands and arms. Then everything you can see and reach is put into your mouth. This is the first lesson in learning what is “good” and what is “Not so” good. First we eat with our eyes, then we eat with our mouth. This has been true since time began. If it looks good, we’ll taste it. If it tastes good, we’ll eat it. So childhood obesity. Is it an eye problem?

How many times have …

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Confused About Early Childhood Development Milestones?

Confused About Early Childhood Development Milestones?

Early childhood development is the foundation to everyone’s life. Nevertheless, each child has their own personalities and ways about them as well as similarities such as meeting developmental milestones in a relatively similar time in their lives from talking to walking.

Doctors tell parents not to compare their child with other children according to their early childhood development. One child might start walking at nine months and one might be 14 months. Both could be healthy yet have their own time schedule. Often children are around a year old when they are walking or …

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How to Create a Baby Genius Without Television

How to Create a Baby Genius Without Television

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has made it clear that television viewing by children under the age of two is not recommended. Tell that to parents who are the targets of marketers promoting DVDs and television programming claiming to transform babies into geniuses! However, AAP continues to assert its opinion that TV may adversely affect a child’s development during these critical early years. So, what’s better than so-called “genius” videos? That’s easy! There are plenty of activities for parents and their little ones that will help to enrich their baby’s mind, …

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Surveying Physical Educators on Pull Ups and Childhood Obesity Prevention

Surveying Physical Educators on Pull Ups and Childhood Obesity Prevention

I confess right up front that the following information represents a totally informal, and unscientific survey. However, as of this past week I’ve finally finished surveying exactly 100 physical education teachers, some by the phone, some in person, and I asked the following six questions.

1. Name

2. School and Location

3. Total Years of Physical Education Teaching Experience

4. The number of obese boys you’ve seen who can do pull ups

5. The number of obese girls you’ve seen who can do pull ups

6. The total number of …

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PTSD Anniversary Can Be a Celebration of Life Not Sorrow

PTSD Anniversary Can Be a Celebration of Life Not Sorrow

Well, just like many of you I have been dreading this day, October 29th, today.

Rather than bring up any childhood PTSD sorrow this is what I have to say.

Here is a sign that comes from the Universal thought.

For me it is revealed in not being able to view past images in film caught.

You know that your heart is still heavy when this happens with tears.

Even though the person or event has passed on what lingers may be old fears.

Perhaps your time of remembrance coincides …

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Where Did My Imagination Go?

Where Did My Imagination Go?

Somewhere along my journey through life I lost my imagination. I don’t know if there’s some mystic lost and found box somewhere that you have to go and pick it up again after a certain age or if your mind locks it up after you get and job and experience the “real world”. Maybe it’s more simple than that, like it just silently creeps out of your ear while you are sleeping. In any case all I know is that mine is lost.

I can remember playing with toys when I was younger and back …

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How Your Family Dentist Protects Your Future

How Your Family Dentist Protects Your Future

Although all parts of the human body need care and upkeep in order to work at their peak potential, teeth require a bit more attention than most. A person’s teeth experience a great deal of wear and tear throughout his life, and though they’re designed to be permanent and function with a minimal amount of problems, teeth that are improperly cared for can cause a whole host of difficulties.

In addition to affecting a person’s overall appearance and level of attractiveness, teeth that are yellowing, broken, have cavities, or have caused gum disease …

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How to Stop Childhood Obesity – Tips to Help Your Overweight Child

How to Stop Childhood Obesity – Tips to Help Your Overweight Child

Almost one out of five children become obese in their growing years. The percentage of children who has become overweight has doubled since the 70’s. No thanks to the food advertisements being shown in national television.

A research done in 2009 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest reveals that eighty percent of the commercials shown in Nickelodeon were food with no nutritional value. It was a modest improvement from ninety percent in four years, but it’s nothing to be happy about. The self regulation of …

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What Child Abuse Articles Reveal About Runaway Children

What Child Abuse Articles Reveal About Runaway Children

It’s not unusual for children to run away from home. In fact, they’ve been doing it for hundreds of years. I’ve done it myself – not once, but three times. Like many children who run away, I came back within a few hours the first time. As child abuse articles often discuss, running away is often impulsive and unplanned. Some children might even look for fun or adventure by running away with a friend, in some cases more than once.

TV, films and books often glorify running away from home. In the …

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Categories: Love Mommy

Teach Your Kids How to Fight The Right Way

It would be lovely to think we could have an argument free family but whether we admit it or not, every loving and happy family has arguments and disagreements. We can even have the kind of arguments that no one even remembers what it was all about.
However it is important to remember in a loving family, the members understand the importance of creating a sort of safety zone where no one ends up getting hurt. You might be asking yourself is that truly possible? And the answer is absolutely yes.
Before looking at ways to develop this in your …

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