True Story: 2 Year Old Saves Moms Life!

A really good friend of ours Alley and her two year old daughter Melanie had this amazing experience that happened and we wanted to share it with you.

Alley who is deathly allergic to wasps and bee stings had a very traumatic experience while her two year old daughter Melanie ended up saving her life!

As they pulled up to their home mom got out of the car to get Melanie out of the car seat. As Allie was tending to Melanie a wasp snuck up her pant leg. From the time they walked from the car into their home the wasp stung Allie six times. At this point they are in their home. Alley's throat has swelled up, she's gasping for air and cannot speak. She started pointing to her purse across the room on the couch. Her daughter went over opened the purse and began literally throwing everything out of it. When she got to the epipen. She grabbed it and was walking over to mom who at this point was in serious condition. She handed her mom the epipen. Alley gave herself the shot and it saved her life.

The real kicker of the story is her two year has never seen or heard or was never educated about this epipen. She instinctively and intuitively stopped being a two-year and tuned into the situation and was guided to what needed to be done. This my friends is a true miracle.....spirit in action.

~ Stacy Toten and Carol Lawrence

Coopers Pack Children's Travel Guides By Kyle And Groot

Created by Brandon Kyle Rudd.

Review by Stacy Toten and Carol Lawrence

Coopers Pack Children's Travel Guides is one of the best children's travel guides we've ever seen. With so many choices in our world today these books are  definitely worth taking a look at. 

As far as educational books go this is definitely well spent money that your children will benefit from many times over. The simplicity in which these books are designed will draw your child in and open up their imagination. Even if you are a world wide traveler or you've never left your town you can still travel the world with these travel guides. Each page is packed with information from top to bottom. The visuals and intricate details are so realistic, from the maps, to real live pictures of the towns, to the street signs; the details of the buildings, the features of the glaciers, even down to the details on the statue of liberty.

DOLPHIN REIKI

Dolphin Reiki

by Kathy Parra

What is dolphin reiki? How is it shared from you to another? And can anyone perform dolphin reiki? The word reiki, pronounced ray-kee, comes from the Japanese word rei, meaning a higher power, and ki, meaning life force energy. With dolphin reiki, the dolphins are the higher power. Life force energy comes directly from the dolphins. This energy is then administered by a laying on of hands to a specific area, either right above or directly on the area needing healing. Fully clothed, with the exception of shoes, the person may want to lie on a massage table, or sit in a chair, or the practitioner can send dolphin reiki across the waves to someone in need. Just the thought of asking dolphin, by saying, “Dolphin I wish for you to be present with this person during this time,” is enough to move the dolphin reiki nearer to them. When dolphin reiki is administered, it feels like a joyful, playful, peaceful, loving energy as dolphin energy flows through and around. Dolphin reiki assists in healing the whole person including body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Many have reported miraculous healings. A session may last thirty minutes or an hour. I have had sessions as short as fifteen minutes, while others lasted one and a half hours. How many times will it take before feeling dolphin reiki work? Many have miraculous healings instantly, others need a few sessions. Dolphins are master healers. Much like our angels of the sea, they know exactly where we hurt in our body, mind, spirit, and emotions and eagerly assist on our path to healing. Can anybody administer dolphin reiki? Yes! If you are connected to the dolphin energy that resides in all of us which is love, then you can share dolphin reiki. Dolphin reiki is pure love energy. The essence of who we are as individuals is love energy and it is natural and innate for all of us to want to assist ourselves or another human being when in need. When you get a headache or stub your toe, what is the first thing you do? You touch the area. It is our natural reflex to heal, to love that which is in need. Dolphins very much want to assist us in our everyday lives of healing ourselves and earth in times of need. They very much wish joy for us in our everyday living. If you wish to become a practitioner sharing dolphin reiki, many states require a practitioner certificate from a dolphin reiki/energy practitioner.

Review: Love is the Color of a Rainbow By Kathy Parra

Love is the Color of a Rainbow By Kathy Parra

Illustrated by Candace Keach

Love is the Color of a Rainbow is the perfect book to teach your children how to see, touch, feel and smell the world.

This book will entice the children to use their imagination. Love is the Color of a Rainbow is very explicit in it's descriptions, you can almost taste the little vine ripe tomato on your tongue or feel the little snail crawling across your hand.

It's always a thrill to us when an author teaches the children how to connect with nature and the importance of mother earth.

Candace Keach's illustrations go hand in hand with the book. It's a perfect match.

Love is the Color of a Rainbow is an echo friendly book. A portion of the proceeds support nature and environmental organizations.

Author Kathy Parra, or Kap, by her nickname, loves gardening, talking with nature, especially with dolphins, vegan cooking and baking, bike riding, and skipping for joy where she lives in Mesa, Arizona with her partner Tony and their 3 girls Ariana, Chenoa, And Asha.

Find out more about Kathy.

Review by Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten

A Huge Thank You To Our Friend And Artist Debby Carman

Our friend Debby Carman is a phenomenal artist. She creates one of a kind art work.
If you are an animal lover you will love the custom pet bowls and treat jars she makes. She recently made this really cute dog food bowl for Stacy.

Stacy has two dogs and two cats. What's so unique about Debby's work is she incorporates your pets right onto the piece of personalized art she is making for you.

Stacy's pets Templar, Kayden, Riley and Miss Lady.

Here is the dog treat jar she made for me a few years ago. 

It captures our pets at the time and will remain a family treasure.

Thank you Debby for sharing your creative talent with us!

If you are looking for a unique gift for the hard to buy for pet lover in your life check out Debby Carman's Art Gallery or online store.

Thanks Debby!!! We appreciate you.... Carol and Stacy.

Why Baby Massage Matters By Karen Faulkner

Why baby massage really matters.
I’m a Child and Family Health Nurse from Australia and I’ve been teaching parents baby massage for over 14 years.
As a midwife I knew it was important but didn’t really understand why. Now that I
know why, I think every parent should be taught this marvellous skill. I think its integral to building a relationship and really understanding your baby.
Baby massage is touch at its most basic. It originated in India, we think, many
years ago. It has a very spiritual aspect to it and through practice we can learn to really understand our baby. It is mindful and in the moment. Something that our fast paced, technology driven lives, really are not.

I think that’s what initially hooked me, the in the moment stuff! It also
seemed a bit mysterious and there was something really powerful about it.

As a Health Visitor, working in a Sure Start area in Salford Manchester, this
perception I had was so different to my work reality. We were taught baby
massage to work, one on one with fathers in ‘at risk’ families to try and reduce
child protection issues. The idea was that if the father massages the baby, he
forms a relationship with his baby, which then hopefully helps to protect it. The
theory was that it’s hard to hurt something that you’ve formed an intimate
bonding experience with. The child protection cases on my caseload numbered
10%. It was huge and overwhelming.

What I witnessed was: learning by both parents of how to read and
understand their babies and linking into their cues. It was a light bulb moment. I
found that commenting on the reciprocal pleasure father and baby were
experiencing really helped the fathers blossom. In England, fathers from a lot of
low socio-economic areas are often absent from the parenting role, for a variety
of reasons. These fathers blossomed and looked forward to my visits at their
home.

Babies benefit from touch in many ways. As well as enhancing the infant parent relationship and bonding, it also has a beneficial effect on the immune system and circulation. Premature babies that are massaged are found to grow more than babies that aren’t. It helps the immature digestive system by reducing colic and wind and treating constipation and reflux.
When you massage your baby you really look into their eyes. We know that
direct eye contact builds connections in the baby’s brain and connects the
synapses that cement emotional intelligence. So never underestimate the power of
baby massage. It’s so much more than just a series of strokes with some lovely
oil.

Find out more about Karen, a Child and Family Health Nurse.
Nurture Parenting Solutions, was established in March 2011 by Karen Faulkner. A Sydney (Australia) based parenting support service that is located in the Inner West and Eastern Suburbs. Karen is a Child and Family Health Nurse and Registered Midwife with 24 years experience. She trained in England as a Nurse and Midwife at large teaching hospitals in Leeds and London; attending University of Manchester to study as a BSc (Hons) Community Specialist Practitioner/Health Visitor and Nurse Prescriber. She also holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Bolton Institute, UK.

She has a strong interest in supporting families and strengthening the family unit. Having worked in social support and outreach programmes in the UK and Melbourne and in the Inner West and Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. She has a particular interest in Baby Massage and has taught this for the past 14 years. A proven ‘baby whisperer’, she teaches parents how to settle their babies/children and establish healthy and positive day and night routines. She believes very strongly in working in partnership with families and helping them find their own solutions to the modern challenges of parenting.