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Teaching Your Baby How to Say/Sign “Help”: One Simple Tip That Can Help Us All
I was telling my husband that I had (what seems to me) a pretty original tip for new mothers. By sharing it, I may help a fellow mom, and that’s what it’s all about.
It seems to me now, that the sign “Help” has been the most life-changing. To sign this word, you do a “thumbs up” with one hand. With your other hand palm up, you lift the “thumbs up” hand like a little elevator, essentially “helping it” up.
I was telling my husband that I had (what seems to me) a pretty original tip for new mothers. By sharing it, I may help a fellow mom, and that’s what it’s all about.
It seems to me now, that the sign “Help” has been the most life-changing. To sign this word, you do a “thumbs up” with one hand. With your other hand palm up, you lift the “thumbs up” hand like a little elevator, essentially “helping it” up.
What to Do When You “Just Can’t" - Seven Steps for Comfort
That’s a sad, bad place to be, but we’ve all been there. Running our hands through our hair, over and over and over because it’s the most soothing thing we can find right now… There are no words for the desperate feeling. Your heart may as well be twisted into an untangleable knot. Maybe a loved one has needs, but we have nothing; NOTHING to offer them now. It’s a life and death challenge for our own soul, let alone, take care of their needs.
That’s a sad, bad place to be, but we’ve all been there. Running our hands through our hair, over and over and over because it’s the most soothing thing we can find right now… There are no words for the desperate feeling. Your heart may as well be twisted into an untangleable knot. Maybe a loved one has needs, but we have nothing; NOTHING to offer them now. It’s a life and death challenge for our own soul, let alone, take care of their needs.
Emotional Baggage: 10 Simple Steps to Help Set it Down
My fifteen year old daughter just left for school with two HUGE backpacks, one on each shoulder. That was a vivid analogy for me. She's been coping with some heavy stuff this year.
I’ve dealt with my own emotional baggage in life, and I have prevailed! I’m happy to give some suggestions, so that you can live free of this grief. My dad told me that sometimes you just have to set the suitcase down and walk away. That’s the picture I kept in my mind as I healed...
My fifteen year old daughter just left for school with two HUGE backpacks, one on each shoulder. That was a vivid analogy for me. She's been coping with some heavy stuff this year.
I’ve dealt with my own emotional baggage in life, and I have prevailed! I’m happy to give some suggestions, so that you can live free of this grief. My dad told me that sometimes you just have to set the suitcase down and walk away. That’s the picture I kept in my mind as I healed...
It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about getting healthy, job-related goals, marital issues, or potty-training. You name it! Follow-through BY YOU, and only you, is the key! You are the locksmith. No one’s gonna do it for you. No one will do it better than you. Following are five tricks that can help make meeting your goals by following through a little easier and better-tasting.
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Sarah Belle Cassidy is a wife and stay at home mother to four kids, two girls and two boys, ages 17, 15, 12 and 2. She once owned a small-town coffee shop/restaurant for eight years, was an apprentice electrician, and homeschooled her oldest three children for eight years. After 20 years of marriage, three children, a divorce, remarriage, and a tag-a-long child at "40-something," Sarah is learning to put the oxygen mask on herself first, and THEN attend to the various needs of a busy family. She says, "Coffee, love, humor, music, research, and plenty of hugs are my fuel." |