Archive for July, 2010

Most High Need Babies Crave Touch: Skin on Skin Contact

There will be days when you rock, nurse, walk, drive, wear and try every comforting technique known to man or woman to try and calm your toddler, but nothing seems to work. Don’t take this as a sign of failure. Keep experimenting with one tool after another. High need babies are so unpredictable, what worked yesterday may not work today. High needs children also seem to have extreme mood swings; They are keenly aware of what’s going on in their environment. They startle easily during the day and settle with difficultly at night for the help www.baby-care-book.com. It would seem like being so high strung that they would require more sleep than a mellower child. Sadly, they don’t – they require less sleep. They often awaken at the slightest noise. If you already don’t have a ritual and slowing down period before bed, it’s very important that you develop one. Start a couple of hours before bedtime working toward slowing their mind and body down. Turn the lights down lower, give a soothing bath, read bedtime stories, spend time talking. Don’t do anything that will energize her. If she awakens at night, talk smoothly to her. Reassure her nicely, and with a soft voice that you are there. You’ll find she’ll go off to sleep much easier and with less fuss than she would if you are yelling at her. Try removing anything from her room that will stimulate her mind. Do not turn on the TV, or DVD, and remove any books from the bed. You may want to try and play soft music. This has been proven to ease a troubled child’s mind, or soothe a hyperactive child’s soul.
Being super- sensitive they usually develop into children “who care.” They develop empathy, and react in a big way to physical and emotional discomfort, theirs as well as others.
Most high need babies crave touch: skin on skin contact. They also crave motion. Holding is not enough. The holder must keep moving. It’s important for the parent to stay calm and relaxed. Most high needs children will also crave a lot of space, (when they’re not wanting to be held). It can seem like they go from one extreme to the other. They can crave this space during sleep or play. They will have an over- urgent need to stretch their legs and arms – and when they do so they don’t want to come into contact with anything, no matter the direction they decide to stretch. If they come into contact with something they don’t want in their ‘space,’ they’ll scream for the help www.create-super-baby.com. As soon as you figure out what’s bothering them and take care of it, they’ll stop screaming or crying, as if nothing ever happened. When playing they seem to need double the space required. They get mad if a child disturbs their sacred space. Don’t get me wrong, they can and often do play well with other children. You will usually find they are in the ‘leader’ position of play, even when playing with older children. They usually do not get intimidated by older kids who may pick on them, they may scream at first out of hurt feelings and anger, but will quickly start ‘fighting back, exerting their control.
High need babies/children are not good at self- soothing. Crying oneself off to sleep is not a good way to learn to relax. These babies do not really accept substitute care and are notoriously slow to warm up to strangers.
I know reading over this, things seem to be almost hopeless, but that’s not so. Many high need babies/children may go through all these symptoms one at a time at various degrees, and some will only go through a few at a time. Most will learn how to control their sensitivity as they get older, controlling the severity of which they become upset.
High need babies turn out to be wonderful children and adults, but the parent most bring them up with patience. Many high needs children are the leaders of our country, or have in-depth jobs. They are usually very intelligent, and most of all, they are usually ‘good people,’ who have very caring and generous hearts.
Parents only need to learn that calm reassurance will go much further than yelling and screaming. This can be challenging, as parents are often on their last nerve. But they will find if they start reacting to their children calmly, and talking in a soothing voice, the urgent screams of the child will usually not last as long, and will actually start to disappear. When you’re upset, it upsets them more so than what they were. Being so empathetic, they act out emotions of others around them. Try to keep your child out of any nervous, loud, or violent situations. As you learn to work with your high need child, you will start to be able to enjoy the intelligent, creative and caring child that they truly are.

Sewakk Ram
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/most-high-need-babies-crave-touch-skin-on-skin-contact-724920.html

Great Places to Enjoy An Audio Book

Everyone seems to be busy and chasing after time that they never have a chance to sit down and literally read a book. The technology has done great wonders by providing audio books.

Now you don’t have to find the time to read a book after work.

Now you can have the books reading to you while you are on your way to work, when you fetch your kids to school. You can now enjoy someone reading the book to you. Isn’t that amazing?

With audio books, we also get to enjoy unique advantages of doing other things that take up our hands, but not our minds. We can now do other things like household chores, exercise, etc while still having the book read to us.

More people are embracing the wonders of audio books and are buying their favorite books in audio book version.

If you are considering buying an audio book, below are 6 of the great places you can enjoy an audio book:

1–In bed – There are certain days when we just don’t want to do anything but lie down in bed thinking of certain issues. Or we could just want to lie down in the dark until we fall asleep.

This is a great time to listen to an audio book. You wouldn’t have to bother with putting on the lights, holding the book, flipping through the pages or the stress of reading the book itself.

With an audio book, the entire book will be read to you while you stay comfortable in bed – without flipping any pages, holding the book or putting on the lights.

2–In the kitchen while doing household chores such as washing the dishes or cooking. For some people it can be very boring being in the kitchen, especially washing the dishes or other such chores.

This is a great time to enjoy an audio book because your hands are busy but your mind is free.

Instead of feeding your mind with negative thoughts during this time, an audio book would be a wonderful alternative.

3–In the garden while gardening – You can also listen to audio books while gardening. The audio book can make the gardening fun because you would be concentrating on the beauty of the audio book and not on the difficulty of gardening.

4–While exercising such as jogging – Exercising such as jogging leaves your mind open but your hands, legs and even your entire body busy. This is a great time to enjoy an audio book.

Most people perform exercises for many minutes or even hours while their minds do nothing. But listening to an audio book during this time ensures you don’t waste those times that you exercise.

Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone – exercising your body and mind at the same time!

5–On the road commuting – This could either be in your personal car or a commercial bus or train ride to work. You see, many people lose a great deal of time doing nothing while commuting to and from their jobs.

Why not use that time to listen to an audio book, especially one that develops your mind and/or improves your professional and business skills?

For example, listening to an audio book that improves your skills daily can do a lot of good to your career, instead of listening to a musical song which wouldn’t help you much in the area of skill acquisition.

6–In the air while traveling – You wouldn’t believe it, but there are many people who spend more time in the air than on road. There are professional assignments that involve traveling from one state to the other, or even from one country to the other.

If you are in such a situation, consider the enormous benefits you would get listening to audio books, especially those that can improve your professional skills.

Yes, there are many audio book courses made specifically for professionals to improve their skills in many areas of their professions.

Not only that, you can also find books on health, beauty, sex & relationships
sports, travel, hobbies, religion & spiritual books and new york’s #1 best selling books.

anonymous
http://www.articlesbase.com/motivational-articles/great-places-to-enjoy-an-audio-book-90963.html

Information On Orthodox Verses Alternative Cancer Treatments

We are conditioned throughout life to turn to our mainstream medical system the moment we have any health problem. Most of the time it serves us well but with cancer it often doesn’t. Why? Here is factual information on both orthodox treatments and alternative treatments so you can make a better informed decision on which form of treatment to turn to if you have cancer.

• Orthodox treatments carried out by our mainstream medical system focus solely on removing the cancer growths and never address the reason why the cancer first grew.
• Orthodox treatments only shrink cancer, they don’t remove it entirely.
• Orthodox treatments of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy all weaken the body’s natural defence system, our built in self-repair system which we all have.
• Orthodox treatments are expensive, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• Orthodox treatments can permanently damage the body with the side effects from all three treatments, especially chemotherapy.
• Orthodox treatments of radiation and chemotherapy can cause cancer to return again at some later stage, being the direct result of those earlier treatments.

• Most alternative treatments share certain characteristics and focus on strengthening the body and the body itself will get rid of the cancer growths.
• Alternatives attack the cause of the problem, and the cause of the problem is why the cancer first grew.
• Alternative treatments aim to strengthen the body, especially the immune system, our built in defence system.
• Alternatives mainly use natural products and are very cheap compared to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
• Alternative treatments attack all cancers regardless of where they are in the body.
• Alternatives have no side effects.
• Alternatives have a high safety record.

 Cancer is simply a disease of the immune system or more correctly it’s a disease of a weak immune system that has been weakened by our modern way of living. Any form of treatment for cancer whether it’s orthodox or alternative should be to strengthen the immune system, which is of paramount importance. Unfortunately there are three concepts you wont find today with our current mainstream health system and that is prevention, nutrition and strengthening the immune system. What we see today is treatments that slash, burn or poison the growths or tumours, which further weakens  the immune system  and only worsens the condition which lead to the cancer in the first place.

The root cause of the cancer growths or why it first grew should be the main focus of every cancer treatment, yet most oncologists typically ignore these. Also a real cure for cancer should not occur at the expensive of destroying other vital parts of the body, and this often happens.

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I appreciate that it takes a massive shift in thinking to realise that your body can heal itself, but with a strong immune system it can overcome cancer, even terminal cancer and can rid the body of the disease forever.

Unlike much of the orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing, typically honour the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces already at work within us. There are of course alternative methods that have no merit and some that make fraudulent claims but there are many that have been of great value to countless number of people. The sadness is that very few have been given the opportunity to be tested or appraised impartially and most doctors will have little to do with them.

 When considering alternative treatments for cancer, they must include a healthy diet of fresh fruit and vegetables, removing all toxic products that we are exposed to and to get plenty of exercise, because they are the main factors that is causing cancer today.

Alan Wighton
http://www.articlesbase.com/cancer-articles/information-on-orthodox-verses-alternative-cancer-treatments-724131.html

Have you ever been an enabler? (i.e. for drugs, sexual depravity, etc.)?

Why where you doing it? (self serving, etc.)

How did it feel when you finally realized what you were doing and stopped? (if you ever did)

I never was but I know some people who did fall into that trap. They think they’re helping someone but they only "help" the addict or alcoholic hurt themselves! I think it’d feel bad at first to realize what was really happening, but in the end it’s for the best to really help someone break an addiction.

mh

Is religion like democracy in that it really sucks but it’s better than the alternative?

Democracy sucks, man. Especially a system where you have to choose between two douche bags and the public are so grossly misinformed that they support their political parties like they support their football teams. Is this really a good system? No, it’s not but it’s better than the alternative of having a dictator or hereditary monarch in charge. Religion is like this too, right? I mean, each religion emphatically claims that only their dogma is true but every religion contradicts all the other religions and they can’t all be true so clearly either one of them is true (unlikely) or none of them are true (very likely). But at this stage in our development as a sapient species, it’s better than the alternative, right? The alternative of having no religion at all to control the stupid and violent people which sadly outnumber the intelligent and rational people, right? I’m not saying atheists should lay down their arms and surrender, I’m just saying that whilst we still have so many stupid and violent people in the world, we kind of need religion even though it sucks…

We don’t need religion, we need Jesus. blessings to ya

Is the FCC trying to censor the alternative news and free speech on the internet?

I heard a rumor that the FCC wanted to put a peice of hardware, maybe like a proxy server, to regulate, filter, and monitor internet traffic. Is this a violation of the 4th amendment? I think that if a person is caught doing something wrong then perhaps this is fine. but to do it like this, I think is wrong. please dont sideball the question and bring up the patriot act. i think that is unconstitutional and a violation of the 4th amendment also. i just want to know more about this move by the obama appointed FCC chairman. or any other details anyone has to offer.
obviously, cencoring freedom of speech is a violation of the 1st amendment. forgot to mention that.
I am aware of emails, attachments, and cryptography, stegnography, SHA-1, PKI, Rijndael, AES, and many other technologies. Not to mention the military grade COMSEC equipment I have used to implement encryption. I am a security professional. This is not new to me. Unfortunately, you are wrong in thinking it would cost the government billions. It would cost the taxpayer billions and the internet users billions. Its simple. A device would be put inbetween the internet user’s home and the ISP. Yup, you guessed it. The internet user would have to pay for that device and additional taxes; I am sure, if this were in place. Someone else please?

there are politicians moving to make this provision. If people dont like it, they need to get off there duffs, call, email, or mail a letter to their congressman and tell them they dont want censorship. This is America! Land of the free! Home of the brave!! we cherish our right to free speech and it is not at the liberty of the government that it should be removed! in ANY shape or form!! however, if someone is making threats they violate other peoples life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness and the arm of the law should try that individual in a court of law. If a person is suspected of illegal activity and only WITH a warrant should that person’s activities be monitored. this is in accordance with the 4th amendment and the Patriot Act. Correct me if I am wrong, please.