Feb 25, 2012

Woodland Wisdom Oracle Cards Review

Woodland Wisdom Oracle Cards By Frances Munro
Illustrated By Peter Pracownik

These channeled oracle cards can be used to help guide and connect you to the ethereal realms and mother earths kingdoms. The informational booklet expresses the positive spiritual messages each oracle card has for you.

These oracle cards will pull you out of your head and put you into your heart. 
The detailed artwork will leave you spellbound!

Review By Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten



Feb 23, 2012

Now I Know By Sally Devorgine

Now I Know 
That silly hopes and fears will just make wrinkles on my face.
By Sally Devorgine

Endorsed By The Dali Lama

There's so much more to this book than meets the eye. It encompasses real life situations that happen every day in school and neighborhoods, teaching children how powerful their own thoughts are for creating positive or negative mental chatter. How their perceptions can help them work through their hopes and fears. Now I Know explores developing relationships and developing the self.


We really appreciated the value and importance of "the testing tree."
What a great way to empower children!

The timeless wisdom quoted by Geshe Langri Thangpa (1054-1123 CE), who was a Buddhist master famous in Tibet for his "8 versus of mind" training is still relevant today and a basis for the Chocolate Sauce Series.

Feb 18, 2012

Whimsical Tarot Card Review

Whimsical Tarot Cards
Illustrated By Mary Hanson-Roberts
Created By Dorothy Morrison

There are four card spreads appropriate for all different ages. 

A delightful tarot deck based on children's fairy tales, stories, fable and myths, colorful and charming, each card features a full pictorial scene, and is suitable for children and adults.

This tarot card deck is an excellent way to introduce tarot to children. The simplistic card descriptions are easy for children to relate to and connect with their spiritual essence. 

To find out more about this whimsical card deck or purchase for family fun games visit U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
You can also follow U.S. Games on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/USGames

Review By Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten

Feb 9, 2012

The Light Inside Of Me By: Vicki Scalzo ~ Review By Carol and Stacy

The Light Inside Of Me ~ A simple way to guide children towards making good choices.

Written By Vicki Scalzo-Savini
Illustrated By Children From Milton Terrace South Elementary.

A quote from inside, The Light Inside Of Me ~ "You can use this book as a tool in the classroom, or at home to remind children of that brilliant light that dwells within."

Right from the very beginning when this adorable children's picture book arrived in the mail we were hooked. It just beams like a ray of sunshine. This book is filled with love and light.

The young illustrators from the Milton Terrace South Elementary shine in their originality. The heartfelt illustrations will bring joy to your eyes. This book is teaching children how to make good choices and how they can trust and honor their own feelings. The light inside of me demonstrates how to recognize the feelings in others and how to shine each and every child's inner light brightly.

Keep an eye out for our full interview with Vicki and a special giveaway just for our Intentional Conscious Parenting readers coming soon! Sign up for our newsletter, subscribe to our RSS feed, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay in touch.

Purchase your very own copy of Light Inside Of Me and find out more about Vicki and her foundation by visiting her website. http://theinfinityfoundation.com/ or 

Review By Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten


Feb 8, 2012

Rain Forest Card Game Review


Rain Forest Card Game ~ Four Games In One!
  • Easy to learn.
  • Fun for the whole family.
  • 2 or more players.
  • Ages 6 and up.
  • Rain forest facts. 
  • Includes poster and stickers.
The Rain Forest deck features 48 different animals in their natural habitat. Includes two custom dice with rain forest symbols.
Children will become familiar with a variety of different animals while they also learn counting and matching skills.
This a game that can be played in four ways.



You and your children will have fun making animal sounds, counting, and playing with this interactive action packed game.


Great hands on educational game to teach the importance of taking care of our planet and her incredible creatures.


Visit U.S. Games Systems, Inc. to learn more about this game and find other family friendly games. 


Follow US Games on Facebook. 


Family Game nights are making a comeback!


Review By Stacy Toten and Carol Lawrence

Tree Hugging Proven To Improve Health Issues | Wake Up World

Tree Hugging Proven To Improve Health Issues | Wake Up World:
"Countless studies have shown that children show significant psychological and physiological effects in terms of their health and well being when they interact with plants. They demonstrate that children function better cognitively and emotionally in green environments and have more creative play in green areas." 'via Blog this'



We love our trees and plants! I guess being accused of being a tree hugger all my life isn't such a bad thing. ~ Carol




Feb 4, 2012

The Intuitive Child: Extrasensory Gifts Creating An Extraordinary World By Cyndi Dale




The Intuitive Child:
Extrasensory Gifts Creating An Extraordinary World
By Cyndi Dale

I was nervous. A mom I’d never met was bringing her son to see me for an energy healing session. He was in his 20’s and had not spoken or walked in his life, ever since he had almost died during surgery when he was a year old. His mother would be carrying him in.

How was I going to figure out how to help him?

Within a few minutes, I was enamored with this young man. I could sense his kindly soul, his awareness of the life around him. And then, something special happened. It was as if his inner self reached into my mind, offering words and pictures for me to interpret.

“Why, Blaine!” I cried out. “You remember heaven! You want this information shared with the world,” I added. “Is it through a book?”

He laughed. He LAUGHED, before nodding his head.

Blaine was communicating with me intuitively, intuition his main way of interacting with the world.

Many of Blaine’s five senses weren’t functional enough for him to communicate with others, but his sixth sense was. In working with him, I figured out he was able to sense others’ feelings and needs, send healing to the ill, and touch the hems of angelic garments. He could read what others’ needed and felt frustrated because he was all-too often not understood.

All children are equipped with a sixth sense; they simply don’t need to rely on it as completely as does Blaine. Having said that, why wouldn’t we want to afford our children full and safe access to their sixth sense, the ability to reach beyond the ordinary five senses? To help our children access these gifts wisely is to activate an internal GPS, one that can provide direction, revelation, comfort, and healing. As extra-ordinary as is the sixth sense, it can be the most practical sense of all.

There are three main considerations involved in guiding our children into their sixth sense. The first is deciphering a child’s strongest gift so you can customize a fun and exciting development process. The second is safety. Intuition involves receiving and sending psychic information. Without filters, we don’t know if we’re working with valid or invalid, helpful or harmful information. The third deliberation is to slowly and enjoyably invite children to actively engage the world via their specific intuitive gifts, making sure they are always comfortable with the process.

There are actually twelve different types of intuitive gifts, which can be divided into four main categories. The simplest way to figure out a child’s gifts is to ask him or her which of the following four descriptions best describes how they know what’s happening inside and outside of themselves. (I have written these descriptions in such a way that you can read them to your child.)

·         Physically kinesthetic: Feeling gifts.Your body tells you what is happening in others.

Jan 25, 2012

7 Tips: How Does Emotional Abuse Damage Children's Self-Esteem By Michael Lawrience


healing emotional abuse
7 Tips: How Does Emotional Abuse Damage Children’s Self-Esteem? Part 1

Did you know the effects of childhood abuse can last a lifetime? Emotional abuse includes verbal violence and the lack of positive emotional support. Ab-users control, criticize, demean, ignore, make children less then, powerless, and victims. Abuse robs children of the ability to trust, healthy psychological development, and high self-esteem. These children enter adulthood with a sense of inadequacy never feeling good enough. They fall into patterns of victimhood and powerlessness. Did you know physical abuse almost always involves emotional abuse? So how does emotional abuse damage a child’s self-esteem?

Self Esteem                                                                                                  


1. Emotional Repres-sion
Feelings denied or unacceptable in a family and unexpressed by a child became repressed. Children resist feeling by tensing muscles, shallow breathing, and repeating internal critical self-talk. They in essence numb themselves which I did as a child, teenager, and adult. I ran constant records of self-talk like, I have nothing to say. I falsely believed myself to be the lowest man on the totem pole in terms of self-worth. Limiting the expression of our feelings and also the creation of false beliefs erodes our self-esteem, as it did mine. Tip: Learn to feel and express your feelings in healthy ways. Examine your critical self-talk and choose to change it. See Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem by Patrick Fanning and Matthew McKay. 
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2. Emotional Violence
This violence stated to be prevalent in most physical abuse stunts our psychological devel-opment as children. My parents verbal yelling and fighting with each other over my fathers constant drinking violated my family’s emotional well being. I knew unconsciously as a child that if I spoke up or stood up to my father he would physi-cally beat me. For survival I shut down the expression of my feelings, retreated inside my-self, and became the invisible lost child. As an adult I felt different and separate from any group I joined. As a result of my parents emotional violence, I attracted women who verbally belated and criticized me for my lack of emotional expression. They reinforced my feeling of inadequacy. Tips: Learn to parent and heal your own inner child. See Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families by Charles Whitfield M.D. http://ow.ly/8wIcg emotional health              


3. Parents Use Children to Satisfy Their Own Needs
A healthy parent reflects back as a mirror a child’s behavior and feelings in a positive way. This builds and validates the child’s core of self-esteem. Some parents, however, use a child to validate their own narcissistic needs. This type of parent has little or no awareness of the child’s needs. They also have little ability to mirror back to the child. The child then gives up some or all of their needs for the parent. This parent never ac-knowledges when a child does something right or praises them. Children build their self-esteem through positive reinforcement from their parents. With my father physically absence when he drank and emotionally absence even when physically around, I unconsciously as the eldest, took on the male role for my mother. I give up my core being and become the codependent caretaker. Tips: Learn recovery methods for codependent behavior. See Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, and Pain by Michael David La-wrience. http://ow.ly/8wIme 

Do you know someone who has suffered emotional abuse as a child? See 7 Tips: How Does Emotional Abuse Damage Children’s Self-Esteem? Part 2 for the other 4 Tips next week. Michael David Lawrience is giving away free 50-pages of his book, The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain. His complete book gives more ways to improve your emotional health, chronic pain management, emotional healing, stress release, and ways to heal emotional abuse. This article may be reproduced with a live link back to http://www.emotionalhealthtips.com/healing-emotional-abuse

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