Busy parents can use moments of meditation as time to bond with their children or to create pockets of relaxing respite for the entire family. School aged children can be encouraged to rely on meditating to prepare for tests or sporting events while younger children can use meditation as a chance to regroup after play dates or a squabble with a sibling. Sharing the peaceful experience of meditating with your children helps them understand the importance of taking time for themselves and granting their active minds a much needed break.
How
To Raise an Indigo Child: 10 Keys for Cultivating a Child's Natural Brilliance
- A Complete Serialization by Barbara Condron
Being alive was always more than what I wanted to be when I grew up. It has always been about how I can be everything I am to be. Now.
So it is with Indigos. They live fully in the present. They resist being physicalized with rules of order that defy creative thought. They are here to bring something to the world. They may not know what that is, but there is no denying the willful presence that ties them to their ethereal, spiritual destiny. Indigos are predecessors to full spectrum children. For this reason, Indigos, like the talented and gifted who preceded them, desire to function as a whole Self. They do not settle for remaining unconscious and so as infants they are not prone to sleep, and when they do they talk and walk and emote as if awake.
Organizations
Making a Difference - Boot Camp for New Dads
Dads today have certainly evolved and are far from the bumbling "Homer Simpson" prototype. Nowadays, there’s a new common thread among new dads whether they are age 18 or 53, and that’s their active fatherly involvement with their babies and children. Boot Camp For New Dads, a non-profit fatherhood program operating at more than 250 community hospitals, clinics, schools and churches in 39 states, can attest to it with more than 100,000 dad "graduates" of their new dad orientation program.
Samurai
Baby - Way of the Baby: A Book of Five Grins, Part 6 The Book of the Void by Seiya Kuramoto, translated by
Brian Hutchins
A true understanding of the Ichi Kuchi Ni Me Way of growth is attained only through knowing the void. Like the hand that cannot close upon a desired object if not empty first, so must your mind eventually become. The spirit of the void is emptiness. A baby emerges from emptiness, makes its first cry with the spirit of emptiness, and aims toward emptiness. Coming full circle, the end approaches the beginning.
Beyond
the Paradigm: The Skills of Limitless Human Potential - A Series for the Caretakers
of Humanity: Part 10, The Practice of Unconditional Love by Valeria Thea Vandermeer
I recently asked my eight-year-old daughter if I could teach people just one thing about children, what should it be? She paused thoughtfully for a moment and then effortlessly brought forth the answer, “To love them unconditionally...” As a culture, we often mistake what constitutes unconditional love. We tend towards polarity and as a result automatically seem to think in terms of extremes in parenting: strong or weak, authoritarian or permissive, close or distant, affectionate or indifferent. These extremes, though, are unnatural affectations or style choices that have little to do with how we love. Too often, a parent, teacher or professional from one of these styles will dismiss or disapprove of another style, not realizing that the style has little to do with the substance. Love is the substance that underlies style and it animates our thoughts, intentions, choices and actions.
Meditation
for Kids: Adventures in Stone by Jeannine Proulx
Guided meditations are a
wonderful way to calm the minds of these very high maintenance children. It
offers them a story form that keeps them interested and aware, while allowing
them the freedom to create their own experiences and stories. The children are
allowed to travel through the labyrinth of their minds to find their own inner
silence and truth which helps them not only relax and unwind, but to live a
life full of possibilities that they themselves have created. The same meditation
can be used everyday and the experience will be different each time! This month's meditation is The Universe at Large.
The
Top 12 Signs You Can’t Say NO To Your Child by Susan Newman, Ph.D.
If three of these sounds vaguely like you, it’s likely that your children turn you into a yes-person quite easily. It’s time to take stock and learn how to say NO.
1. Your living room looks like a toy store. 2. At any given hour the couch doubles as a trampoline, a wrestling mat, a hiding place or arts and crafts center...
Angels
and Alternative Healing with a Premature Baby
by Donna Grey-Virtue
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was diagnosed with a short cervix early in my pregnancy and was monitored very closely. It was at this point that I began serious conversations with the angels, and through my meditations, manifestations began. At 36 it was what I had been hoping for all my life. I have always been connected with children and was passionate about being a mum.
Spirit Whisperers - Spilled Soup for the Soul by Chick Moorman
Ivonne Delaflor teaches a class in meditation to young children in Cancun, Mexico. The three, four, and five-year olds learn such concepts as:
1. My emotions have a name.
2. How to recognize feelings.
3. Moving with energy.
4. Creative visualization.
5. Drawing emotion through color.The use of music plays an important role in Ivonne’s format. She chooses music for children designed to uplift their spirits, like the CD, “Chicken Soup For Little Souls.” She also selectively mixes in art and video in an effort to help young children learn what it is to be a human being.
Change
Lives! Become a Mentor by Jill Gurr
Half of the U.S. youth population (17.6 million kids to be exact) is considered to be “at-risk” of getting into trouble with the law, or “high-risk” and already in trouble. This isn’t a problem only in the United States. Street gangs, drug addiction, child prostitution, abuse and neglect are major concerns around the world. Our children need help!
It’s easy to turn your back and ignore the problem, but what will you do when some kids jack your car? Or rape your daughter? Or spend their entire lives on welfare or in the prison system, on your tax dollars? One solution that has been proven to work is mentoring.
The
Eye of the Beholder by Daniel Jacob
The Next Generation - If the reader has been following the discussion thus far, and you are not too turned off by any of these concepts, you have an opportunity to do something very special, indeed. At your own pace, and in your own timing, you can form yourself into a BRIDGE PERSON, spanning between the generations. Instead of seeing yourself as a "Flower Child" of the 60s, a "Baby Boomer" of the mid 40s, or a "Child of the Depression" from the 1930s, you can begin to think of yourself as ALL OF IT - a Virtual Nexus for Eternity who occupies space in the Here and Now.
NEW
HUMAN HEALTH: At the Cutting Edge of Toxin Awareness and Super Nutrition by Hugh Newman
In this issue Hugh reports on Suicide Drugs for ADHD; 'Unhealthy' food not selling; Insecticides & Leukaemia; Toxic Law almost Worked; Untested Cosmetics adverts; and TV leads to Obesity Shock.
SPECIAL
REPORT: French Fries, Kids & Breast Cancer by Randall Neustaedter, OMD,
LAc, CCH
French fries have appeared in the medical research news once again. This time a large study examined the correlation between breast cancer incidence later in life and a list of 30 foods eaten during the preschool years. Interestingly, the food with the highest correlation to breast cancer was French fries.
Stevia
- The Best Kept Secret of All-Natural Sweeteners - Includes Luscious and
Healthy Dessert Recipes
by Lisa Jobs, B.A., M.J.
Using stevia, an all-natural alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners, is gaining increasing popularity in the USA and around the world. Stevia Rebaudiana, stevia’s botanical name, is derived from a plant grown in different parts of the world including South America and Asia. The plant’s intense sweetening qualities called glycosides are what make this up to 300 times sweeter than sugar and non-caloric. Since these glycosides do not get absorbed into the body, they simply pass through leaving no calories. The Japanese have used it in many food applications including soft drinks to soy sauce since the 1970s and stevia commands an incredible 52% share of Japan’s commercial sweetener market. Brazil has been using stevia for years for the treatment of diabetes.
Healthy
Lunches for Healthy Lives - This month, Fresh Rapberries & Peanut Butter
Sandwich by Laura Passetta
For Laura Pasetta, good health isn't just a career; it's a way of life. A former health club owner, wife and mother of two daughters, the heart of her passion is the core belief that people of any age or gender - from infants to seniors - can benefit from healthy living. Her simple, holistic approach to health has fostered expertise in a variety of fields, including: physical fitness, aqua aerobics, yoga, infant massage, organic gardening, cooking, and herbal medicine. This month Laura offers us one of the fabulous recipes from her new DVD The Visual Guide: How To Make A Healthy Lunch For Kids.
Sky
of Dreams by Mac J. Adamson
Sky of Dreams is the first in a series of adventures that take place in fantasy world called The Mystical World of Nebe. The second book entitled The Fall of Spirits is currently in development and scheduled for release early next year. Whether hiking in his beloved mountains with his camera or writing the stories they inspire, Mac has a mission to help children realize their potential by reconnecting with nature as a means of discovering the power that they have within themselves to transform their lives.
FROM
SOUTH AFRICA - Have You Met Your Child's Guardian Angel?
by Carmen M. Schnider-Kemp
The New Children are born with knowing who they are and why they have come. They remember their spiritual roots. Yet, in a world centered on academic performance and acquisition of material wealth, their spiritual and emotional development is often neglected. They get taught that their external world defines who they are, what they must do and who they must become. This process dismantles their inner truth and authentic self piece by piece. Old world energy and outdated parenting models have created a society in emotional denial and spiritually lacking. Parents are often helpless about how to negotiate their children safely through to adulthood with the lurking swamp of crime, drugs, aids and financial pressures.
FROM
FINLAND - Baby Burnout Blues by Helana Heinänen
child is like a small seedling, inside of which exists everything needed to grow into his/her Self - an individual, conceived and Created in the wisdom of the Creator. A child needs the best possible care and love in order to reach his/her own best possible goals. “Remember to be nice, remember to participate”, are the instructions from parents that echo in the ears of children as they head off to kindergarten every morning. Every day those same children have to cope with feelings of rejection, thoughts of…
“Where are those who understand me?”
The Neurophysiology
of the New Kids by Marci Lebowitz, OTR/L
Are
You Living In A Healthy Home? Thoughts from a Holistic Home Healer 
Communicating
with Unborn Babies