Family: Camping With Man's Best Friend

Camping With Man's Best Friend

Written by Robin Shortt

Man's best friend your dog , and you, can go camping and have lots of fun. Look at it as a walk that doesn't end, during which he gets to spend all his time with you. For us campers, it can give us another means of security and another way of bonding.

For those of you who are wanting to get involved in this great adventure with their pet, there are some things you need to do to make this as fun as possible for both of you.

First time camping pooches should be shown repparttar wonders of nature slowly. City or urban dogs need to be brought along slow because of their tender pads on their paws, and they need to get used to all open spaces and wonders of nature. Start with taking them on a some day trips to state, county and conservation Parks

The wide open spaces will help your dog get used to unpopulated areas. He wll also find new odours and sights in this stress free environment. Going on nature and hiking trails will also help your dog gain muscle strength and fitness before you go camping.

As we enjoy repparttar 111226 companionship of our dogs, they become a member of our families. Going with us on family outings, walks, trips around town, just about everywhere we go they tag along with us. Thats fine because we care about them so much. Its not always repparttar 111227 same with camp owners who feel dogs are not man's best friend in their camping area. They have good reason to be. A lot of dog owners are not very good in keeping their pets leashed or cleaning up after them. They also don't abide by repparttar 111228 camp rules repparttar 111229 way they should, but many irresponsible dog owners feel repparttar 111230 rules don't apply to them and their dogs. Of course because of these pet owners , we all suffer, thus there are now many campgrounds not allowing dogs. Check ahead to see if repparttar 111231 campground you' re going to allows dogs, and if so, are they allowed on repparttar 111232 trails, or have special trails set aside for dogs. Also some campgrounds charge two dollars a night for dogs as well.

Valentine Moments With Your Children

Written by Dr. Margaret Paul

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Title -Valentine Moments With Your Children Author - Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail- mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright- © 2004 by Margaret Paul Web Address -http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 812 Category: Parenting

VALENTINE MOMENTS WITH YOUR CHILDREN By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

One of repparttar 111226 things I loved doing as a child was making very fancy and creative valentines for my parents. I would spend hours designing and building wonderful cards with little poems in them. The only problem was that, while my mother would receive her card graciously, she never received it with her heart. She would smile and tell me how lovely it was, but I never felt her love coming back to me. My mother did not know how to open her heart, how to smile at me with love and cherishing in her eyes. My father would never even notice his card.

I wanted to connect with my parents, to share love with them, to know their hearts, but their hearts were hidden. Sadly, my mother died last year at repparttar 111227 age of 85 without ever being able to truly share her heart with me. My father is 91 and his heart has always been closed.

Your children need to feel your heart and soul. They need you to take repparttar 111228 time to stop what you are doing and just be with them. They need you to really see them – to see who they are beneath their outward ways of being.

One of repparttar 111229 greatest gifts we can give to our children is to see their essence, their true Self, their individual expression of Spirit within them. When children are deeply seen and valued by their parents, they learn to see and value themselves. All children need this profound mirroring from their parents to feel intrinsically lovable and worthy.

The problem is that we cannot see repparttar 111230 souls of our children and embrace their intrinsic worth unless we see our own intrinsic worth. If you suffer from core shame - if you feel intrinsically unworthy, unlovable, not good enough, unimportant, or inadequate - then you cannot energetically communicate to your children their inherent worth. Your own feelings of unworthiness will be projected upon them, no matter how loving you try to be with them. You can let them know in many ways how wonderful they are, but when they energetically pick up your core shame, they will either integrate that shame into their own beings, or move into repparttar 111231 opposite direction, believing that they are superior to you, which can cause entitlement issues.

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