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Monday, December 29, 2008
Recipe for Success
1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Have a chat with yourself about what is going on in your life. Buy a lock if you have to.
3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My
purpose today is: ________________________
I am thankful for: ________________________
4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that
is manufactured in plants.
5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
12. You are not so important that you have to win every argument.
Agree to disagree.
13 . Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’
17. Forgive everyone for everything.
18. What other people think of you is none of your business.
19. The Universe heals everything – but you have to ask it.
20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch!!!
22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:
I am thankful for __________.
Today I accomplished _________.
24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
25. When you are feeling down, start listing your many blessings.
You’ll be smiling before you know it.
It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Have a chat with yourself about what is going on in your life. Buy a lock if you have to.
3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, ‘My
purpose today is: ________________________
I am thankful for: ________________________
4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that
is manufactured in plants.
5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
7. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
9. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
11. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
12. You are not so important that you have to win every argument.
Agree to disagree.
13 . Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
14. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: ‘In five years, will this matter?’
17. Forgive everyone for everything.
18. What other people think of you is none of your business.
19. The Universe heals everything – but you have to ask it.
20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
21. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch!!!
22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements:
I am thankful for __________.
Today I accomplished _________.
24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
25. When you are feeling down, start listing your many blessings.
You’ll be smiling before you know it.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Who's in Control?
Who's in Control
The Unhappy Consequences of Being Child-Centered
by Jean Leidloff
It took some time before the significance of what I was looking at sank into my "civilized" mind. I had spent more than two years living in the jungles of South America with Stone Age Indians. Little boys traveled with us when we enlisted their fathers as guides and crew, and we often stayed for days or weeks in the villages of the Yequana Indians where the children played all day unsupervised by adults or adolescents. It only struck me after the fourth of my five expeditions that I had never seen a conflict either between two children or between a child and an adult. Not only did the children not hit one another, they did not even argue. They obeyed their elders instantly and cheerfully, and often carried babies around with them while playing or helping with the work.
Where were the "terrible twos"? Where were the tantrums, the struggle to "get their own way," the selfishness, the destructiveness and carelessness of their own safety that we call normal? Where was the nagging, the discipline, the "boundaries" needed to curb their contrariness? Where, indeed, was the adversarial relationship we take for granted between parent and child? Where was the blaming, the punishing, or for that matter, where was any sign of permissiveness?
Rest of the article
The Unhappy Consequences of Being Child-Centered
by Jean Leidloff
It took some time before the significance of what I was looking at sank into my "civilized" mind. I had spent more than two years living in the jungles of South America with Stone Age Indians. Little boys traveled with us when we enlisted their fathers as guides and crew, and we often stayed for days or weeks in the villages of the Yequana Indians where the children played all day unsupervised by adults or adolescents. It only struck me after the fourth of my five expeditions that I had never seen a conflict either between two children or between a child and an adult. Not only did the children not hit one another, they did not even argue. They obeyed their elders instantly and cheerfully, and often carried babies around with them while playing or helping with the work.
Where were the "terrible twos"? Where were the tantrums, the struggle to "get their own way," the selfishness, the destructiveness and carelessness of their own safety that we call normal? Where was the nagging, the discipline, the "boundaries" needed to curb their contrariness? Where, indeed, was the adversarial relationship we take for granted between parent and child? Where was the blaming, the punishing, or for that matter, where was any sign of permissiveness?
Rest of the article
Friday, December 19, 2008
Photo Update
Well our computer has officially died - but we've got a backup in the meantime while we figure out what to do. So, here's what's been on my camera since the fatality. =) Grab a snack, cause there's a lot!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Meaningful Toys
6 Fun Toys You Can Make at Home
One night after the kids are in bed before Christmas, Rhett and I are going to go through all of our toys. Everything that takes a battery (or otherwise limits creativity) is going to be donated to Rhett's taxi drivers. We want to drastically reduce our toy load - and come away with a few simple, meaningful, and imaginative toys.
Here is a list of what the kids are getting for Christmas:
Seth - Waldorf-inspired doll. Handmade truck. Book (All The Places to Love). Handmade I-spy bag. Handmade crayon roll. Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade instrument.
Ella - Doll bed for her babies. Book (On The Night You Were Born). Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade wooden egg rattle. Handmade wooden ball and scoop. Handmade rainbow nesting blocks.
One night after the kids are in bed before Christmas, Rhett and I are going to go through all of our toys. Everything that takes a battery (or otherwise limits creativity) is going to be donated to Rhett's taxi drivers. We want to drastically reduce our toy load - and come away with a few simple, meaningful, and imaginative toys.
Here is a list of what the kids are getting for Christmas:
Seth - Waldorf-inspired doll. Handmade truck. Book (All The Places to Love). Handmade I-spy bag. Handmade crayon roll. Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade instrument.
Ella - Doll bed for her babies. Book (On The Night You Were Born). Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade wooden egg rattle. Handmade wooden ball and scoop. Handmade rainbow nesting blocks.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Autism is Curable!
Isn't that amazing? It's true though, autism is curable! I've seen it happen before my eyes. At Church on Sunday, Seth's nursery leaders told Rhett that they couldn't believe the progress he's made. One of his leaders, who has worked with special needs children before, mentioned "recovered" to me. He's a completely different child than he was just 6 months ago. He's Seth. Finally.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop posted more great info about Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Campbell-McBride.. Find the post here. Definitely worth the click.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride said, "Fifteen or twenty years ago, the majority of doctors never saw an autistic child. It was a rare disorder that most people had never heard of, afflicting about one child in 10,000. Today, on average in this country, one child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. With a 40-fold increase in newly diagnosed cases of autism, we have an absolute epidemic.
Autism is a serious disorder, yet it is perfectly curable. The younger the child when treatment begins, the better results I see. If you can catch the autistic child under the age of three, there is about a 60-70 percent chance of full recovery."
It's possible, you've just got to find the right information!
Kelly the Kitchen Kop posted more great info about Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Campbell-McBride.. Find the post here. Definitely worth the click.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride said, "Fifteen or twenty years ago, the majority of doctors never saw an autistic child. It was a rare disorder that most people had never heard of, afflicting about one child in 10,000. Today, on average in this country, one child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. With a 40-fold increase in newly diagnosed cases of autism, we have an absolute epidemic.
Autism is a serious disorder, yet it is perfectly curable. The younger the child when treatment begins, the better results I see. If you can catch the autistic child under the age of three, there is about a 60-70 percent chance of full recovery."
It's possible, you've just got to find the right information!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Farm Dreamin'
While I've been reading Healing our Children, Rhett has been reading You Can Farm by our local meat provider, Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. He's loving it. We've decided to turn our backyard into a huge garden. Rhett and Seth have started working on our compost and setting up plots for veggies. I've been researching online tonight about getting chickens - looks like it's illegal in our area. Ugh. We figure it's probably better to start small with the farming dream - see how self-sufficient we can be in our own backyard before we go any bigger.
The chores have been so good for Seth. He loves helping dad outside.
The chores have been so good for Seth. He loves helping dad outside.
Healing Our Children
I've been immersed in the book, Healing our Children by Ramiel Nagel. It's chock full of wonderful information - nutrition, parenting, childbirth, all of the good stuff. You can download an excerpt from the book and gets lots of other great info here.
Dr. Weston A. Price started feeding a group of orphans one meal a day, to help prevent tooth decay. This is also the diet he suggested for pregnant women. There is a copy of the diet in the book...here it is.
About four ounces of tomato juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. Then they received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh everyday in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals.
Dr. Weston A. Price started feeding a group of orphans one meal a day, to help prevent tooth decay. This is also the diet he suggested for pregnant women. There is a copy of the diet in the book...here it is.
About four ounces of tomato juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. Then they received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh everyday in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Oh sad day
Our hard drive crashed. Sigh. Everything is gone. All the pictures, all the videos, all my research, everything. I had tons of wonderful Thanksgiving pictures and pictures from Ella's 1st birthday party to download. No dice. So, the blog is going to be pretty slow for a while. Sigh.
On a happy note, it's Ella's first birthday! One year since the most life-changing, amazing day! I'm so thankful for my sweet little Ella-belle. Happy birthday sweet girl.
On a happy note, it's Ella's first birthday! One year since the most life-changing, amazing day! I'm so thankful for my sweet little Ella-belle. Happy birthday sweet girl.
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