Parenting
The following are excerpts taken from articles about Parenting.
ADHD & Pilgrimage
Pilgrim’s progress
Being a parent of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be one of life’s greatest challenges. Dr Adrian Cooper shares his research on how taking children on pilgrimage journeys can change the lives of those parents and their children
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects one in 200 children in the western world. It refers…
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Slumbering angels
Kindred Spirit Alternative Health
Slumbering angels
If your little one is experiencing problems getting off to a calm and relaxed sleep, reflexology and massage could help. Mary Atkinson gives us some practical advice for nurturing sleepy heads
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Let the Children Speak
While a focus on academic skills is essential in order to enable us to flourish in the modern world, young people today are not given the opportunity to fully develop their creative, ‘right-brained’ skills through their intuitive and imaginative faculties. Happy individuals and a healthy society depend on a balance of the two. In the UK last autumn, a new law was introduced into the national curriculum for all under-fives in nursery schools, to assess 500 developmental milestones between birth and primary school involving writing, problem solving and numeracy skills. This…
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Custodians of the Light
Our greatest gift is that of life itself and when we ‘create’ life ourselves we are gifted ten-fold. Whether our children, our light, the purest of energies, come from our flesh or are put in our care, all of us have a duty to nurture and guide them as best as we can. The following contributions look at aspects of their existence in order that we can better understand and facilitate their development and in return balance our own divine energy. We may think that our children are a small version of ourselves. Perhaps through them some aspect of ourselves can continue after…
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Chalk Face Blues
For some, memories of school conjure up a happy sunny little room in the corridor of their psyche, with laughter and learning in equal doses; for others, bleak Dickensian scenes from Oliver Twist come to haunt them. Author and mother Victoria Johnston takes a comprehensive look at alternative routes to mainstream education, highlighting the need for a multifaceted approach to help younger generations fulfi l their potential and give of their best without having their vibrant energies diluted and their spirits crushed...Our own experience of school inevitably colours our…
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Children in Crisis.... Holistic therapy gives fresh hope
Cases of autism and ADHD are soaring, schools and families are in crisis. Linda Porter, a teacher and psychologist with radical vision, has pioneered a new holistic education therapy with amazing results.
She tells Carolyn Burdet about the way forward for healing children’s emotional and behavioural problemsWe feed children a diet saturated in unprecedented levels of pesticides, additives, and artificial sweeteners that creates an internal toxic environment. (Check the labels – even toothpaste and ‘sugar free’ baby medicines contain these chemical additives.) We…
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