Empowering Children through AIKIDO

Siblings to a child with a disability sometimes feel like they are on the back burner. They diligently watch mom or dad take their sibling to and from therapy, specialists, and special groups. If you are trying a special diet, most likely they too will need to adjust to new foods, and forgo some of their favorites. Frustrations may add up as the sibling doesn’t ‘act’ like other children. I have found that in the autistic family construct that it...

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Common Cold- Home Remedies

A common cold is an infection of your upper respiratory tract. It is relatively harmless in low-risk populations, but it usually doesn’t feel that way. Any one of more than 200 viruses can cause a common cold, so symptoms tend to vary greatly. Adults are likely have a common cold 2-4 times per year; while children tend to have one 8-10 times per year (especially preschoolers). Using common sense can help reduce your chances of ‘catching a cold’:...

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Recipe of the Week: GFCF Smoothie

2 medium Bananas1 cup Mixed Frozen Fruit - blueberries, blackberries and strawberries2 cups Almond Milk1 teaspoon Kids Liquid Dolphin Pals Multi-vitamin and mineral complex1/2 teaspoon Children's DHA - Nordic Naturals Omega-3 supplement1/2 teaspoon Green Super Food - Amazing Grass Chocolate Drink Powderdash of Pure Sea SaltPut all ingrediants in a bender and mix until a nice consistency. Serve in a glass with straw. Both of my girls love this with...

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P.S. Why is my Child Agitated?

From an early age my oldest child seemed to have mood swings. We would nervously chuckle over our concern that she was like a mini Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde. She would be sweet as pie, then without warning she would be bouncing off of the walls. My husband and I were baffled as the agitation increased. Where could she be learning this behavior? We found that we were asking the wrong question; it was not where she was learning the behavior as so much...

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What Is That Smell?

During a rare lunch excursion, my husband and I saw this young mother walking down the sidewalk with her baby girl. At first glance, it seemed enduring; she was toting a packed diaper bag that I am sure was full of snacks, sippy cups, diapers, and toys. She was a mommy on a mission- certainly this was an outing she had carefully orchestrated. She was just about to enter a store when it dawned on me that this was their destination...Without hesitation...

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Autism Omnibus Trial

Three families (of more than 5300 who have filed a court claim to prove that childhood vaccines caused their children's autism) had their day in court. Last week The US Court of Federal Claims ruled that the Vaccines did not cause the Autism. The cases were ruled by three federal judges who work for the government's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Denise Vowell, a former U.S. Army chief trial judge Patricia Campbell-Smith,...

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Be Still

Be still... How many parents find this statement challenging to embrace? Let’s face it; on any given day the last thing we are thinking about is being still. We have a laundry list of things to do longer than the Dead Sea Scrolls with lunches to pack, socks to sort, special dinners to prepare, extracurricular activities to organize, arguments to mediate.... However, I suggest that if you just took 10 - 30 minutes a day to “be still” and quiet...

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HFCS adds to the Autism-Mercury debate

This past weekend I was eager to read Dr. Mercola's article, Most Common Source of Calories in U.S. is LOADED With Mercury. The article revealed that High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is laced with mercury through the use of caustic soda while separating the corn kernel from the corn starch.The more I contemplated this, the more I recognized madness! I remembered how after watching KING CORN (which illustrates the use caustic acid) that we began to...

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A crisis in America and it's not the economy!

I have decided to start blogging in order to reach out to others and educate them about things that seem so obvious to me, but not to others. For instance, did you know there is a crisis occurring in America? No it has nothing to do directly with the current condition of our economy. But worse, it does have to do with our children.Our children are becoming more sick, disconnected and violent than ever before in our history. At alarming numbers they...

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