Growing Up With Bach Flower Remedies

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Howard shows how the Bach system of healing can help babies, children and adolescents during the turbulent years of youth.

The book takes the reader through all the stages of childhood, including developmental progress, illness, schooling, behavior, puberty, examinations, and various other milestones when emotional support is needed.

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Author

Judy Howard is a trained nurse, health visitor and midwife. She has been at the Bach Centre in England since the mid-eighties, and in that time pioneered the Practitioner Courses as well as getting involved in just about every other aspect of the Centre's work.

She is a trustee of the Centre and has been personally trained by John Ramsell (her father) in the making of mother tinctures.

Judy has written several books on the Bach remedies. She has two children, Sam and Fay, and lives in Warborough, about two miles from the Centre.

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Contents

Introduction -- XI

Chapter 1
The Bach System And How It Relates To Children - 1
The Indications Of The 38 Remedies & Rescue Remedy -- 2
-- Type Remedies -- 2
-- Mood Remedies -- 2
Selecting Remedies For Children -- 14
Administering The Remedies To Children -- 16
Rescue Remedy In Childhood -- 18

Chapter 2
Children's Challenges -- 20
Birth -- 20
-- Bonding -- 21
Sleeping -- 24
-- Comfort And Routine -- 26
-- Sleep Disturbances -- 28
-- Nightmares -- 30
Feeding -- 31
-- Colic -- 34
-- Diminished Milk Supply -- 35
-- Weaning -- 36
Teething -- 38
Eliminating - 39
-- Potty Training -- 40
-- Soiling -- 41
-- Bed Wetting -- 46

Chapter 3
A Child's Social Development -- 49
Play -- 49
Temper -- 55
Language And Interaction -- 57
Going To School -- 59
Behavior And Achievement -- 60
Dyslexia -- 64
Bullying -- 66
Shyness -- 69
-- Blushing -- 71
Stammering -- 72
Tics -- 75
Hyperactivity -- 77

Chapter 4
Family Relationships -- 80
A New Arrival -- 81
Sibling Rivalry -- 84
Parental Disharmony -- 84
-- Help For The Parents -- 87
Rejection -- 88
Adoption -- 90
Over-Protection -- 92
Child Abuse -- 93

Chapter 5
Health And Illness -- 98
When Children Are Ill -- 98
Common Ailments -- 101
Allergies -- 102
-- Hayfever -- 103
-- Eczema -- 104
-- Asthma -- 105
Serious Illness -- 107
Coping With A Child's Death -- 110

Chapter 6
Children With Extra Special Needs -- 114
The Needs Of The Family -- 114
The Needs Of The Child -- 119
-- Cerebral Palsy -- 119
-- Downs Syndrome -- 122
-- Blindness -- 123
-- Deafness -- 126

Chapter 7
Puberty -- 129
Physical And Emotional Changes -- 129
-- Girls -- 130
-- Menstruation -- 130
-- Breasts And Bras -- 135
-- Boys -- 136
Body Odor -- 139
Spots -- 140
The Desire To Be Thin -- 142
The Disabled Adolescent -- 146

Chapter 8
Love, Sex And Sexuality -- 149
Sexual Identity -- 149
Sexual Impulses -- 150
Falling In Love -- 154
Sexual Activity & Adolescent Pregnancy -- 158
-- The Young Father -- 162

Chapter 9
Social Behavior In Adolescence -- 164
Truancy, Lying And Stealing --167
Smoking, Drinking And Drug Taking -- 169
-- Smoking -- 169
-- Alcohol -- 170
-- Other Drugs -- 170
Back Chat, Moodiness, And Rebellion -- 173
Suicide -- 176
Best Friends -- 177

Chapter 10
Looking Towards The Future - 180
Examinations -- 180
On Their Way To Work -- 184
A Life Of Their Own -- 189
And Finally -- 190

Suggested Reading -- 193
Useful Addresses -- 196
Index -- 199

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