Dianetics has so many uses within the family. Many have been covered in articles on this site: how to handle injuries, calm and quiet birthing, assists to help moms during pregnancy and after the birth, etc. Yet in some ways this only scratches the surface of the use of this subject. My last post on the subject centered on [...]
Dianetics has so many uses within the family. Many have been covered in articles on this site: how to handle injuries, calm and quiet birthing, assists to help moms during pregnancy and after the birth, etc. Yet in some ways this only scratches the surface of the use of this subject. Dianetics includes the use [...]
I’m a Scientologist and a parent. What does that mean? The answer sums up a lot of why I started this site in the first place. And although I’ve written over 200 articles on this site so far on the subject, I’ve never actually just summarized what it means to me to be a Scientology [...]
Discovering Nature, Together, originally uploaded by tadnkat. My sister and I have always been really close. I literally can only remember one fight I ever had with her, and that’s because she mistakenly whalloped me over the head with her cabbage patch doll (they hurt!!) But that closeness that we had in growing up, in [...]
If you read my last post on getting children sufficient sleep, you’d see that insufficient sleep can be a major contributory factor to tantrums in children. However, let’s say you have handled the sleep issue but you are still experiencing tantrums at home. So now let’s look at the next most basic cause of this [...]
OK, today I am going to write about something that we have heard a lot about, all agree with and yet when parents bring their children to see me almost one-for-one this point is violated. It is violated in ourselves as well, which I suppose justifies it somewhat. You can research it anywhere on the [...]
The following excellent article is contributed by Diane D. Norgard, a Parent Consultant at the Mace-Kingsley Family Center. Definition of Invalidation The definition of invalidation is: refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact. Basically it is no attention. It actually acts as force and is equivalent to being [...]
I think that communication skill is one of the single most – if not the single most undervalued yet utterly essential skills in being a parent, a husband or a wife. Reasons to be a skilled, competent communicator abound. Who of you has shaken their head in contempt of the parent you see at the [...]
I’m right now in the midst of another fantastic Scientology Life Improvement Course at the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D.C. – this one entitled the Successfully Raising Children Course. Today’s course period was reading a jaw-dropping set of essays on dealing with children – one that specifically answered some of the more deep [...]