Make Your Own Toothpaste

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Make Your Own Toothpaste By ThriftyFun.com

Making your own toothpaste is both easy and cheap.

Ingredients:

- 1 cup baking soda - 1/3 cup salt - 3 teaspoons glycerin - Flavoring for taste (Wintergreen or Peppermint Oil)

Directions:

Mix baking soda

Protecting Your Child’s Innocence

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.


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Title: Protecting Your Child’s Innocence Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2004 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 823 Category: Parenting

PROTECTING YOUR CHILD’S INNOCENCE By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

We love our children and we want them to be safe – safe from people who could harm them and destroy their innocence. Atrepparttar 111159 same time we don’t want to scare them and perhaps create timidity or nightmares. How can we protect them without harming them?

Obviously, we need to educate our children regardingrepparttar 111160 fact that there are people who want to do them harm. We need to teach them not to speak to strangers, even whenrepparttar 111161 strangers appear to be nice, never accept rides from people without previous arrangements, never allow people to touch them inappropriately, and so on. We need to teach themrepparttar 111162 facts of safety. We can also teach them self-defense. When my daughter was 12 and very tiny for her age, we both took a wonderful self-defense class – called Model Mugging or Impact Training - where we learned to defend ourselves against an attack. Even a small child can learn powerful methods for getting away from an attacker.

In addition, there is another very profound way we can help our children to be safe. We can teach then to discernrepparttar 111163 difference between people whose hearts are open and people whose hearts are closed. Many children are highly intuitive and can often sense energy, yet when we don’t discuss and validate this level of knowing, they might learn to discount their inner experience.

I once counseled a woman in her 50’s, named Miranda, who told me this story: “I was eight years old and walking home from school with my best friend. A car pulled up and a man offered to drive us home. This was before most children were educated regarding not getting into strange cars. It was a hot and dusty day and both of us would have loved a ride home. However, something inside felt wrong, and I had been taught by my mother to trust my inner feelings. As my friend started to get intorepparttar 111164 car, I grabbed her and said, ‘No. Please don’t go with him. Let’s just walk.’ She didn’t listen to me and got intorepparttar 111165 car.

She didn’t come home that night andrepparttar 111166 next day she was found dead.”

Miranda was deeply traumatized byrepparttar 111167 death of her friend. For years she thought it was her fault for not forcing her friend to walk home with her. It was only later in her healing process that she accepted her helplessness over her friend’s choice, let go of feeling responsible for her death, and felt grateful for trustingrepparttar 111168 truth of her inner self.

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