Children’s Corner
We are particularly passionate about conscious parenting. We offer holistic approaches and comprehensive natural solutions to childhood health concerns.
Phytotherapy for Children
Make herbs part of your life! Dr Connie Meyer shares some ideas about using them in everyday cooking and baking and as soothing natural remedies for childhood ailments.
Understanding Addiction in Teens
Dr Raoul Goldberg discusses the rising issue of addiction in children, its underlying causes, and effective strategies for prevention and management. He offers insights into holistic approaches for addressing addictive behaviour in our youth.
Anxiety in Children
Discover how to address and alleviate anxiety in children through homeopathy. Learn about common childhood fears, developmental milestones, and effective homeopathic remedies that can help your child overcome anxiety and grow with confidence. Explore natural, non-addictive treatments tailored to individual needs.
ADHD and Nutrition
Children who are extremely overactive may be diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – but how do you know whether this isn’t just normal childhood behaviour, or even due to a physical problem or a food allergy? And if he does have ADHD, are drugs the answer, or are there other ways in which you can help?
Ten Childhood Challenges
Complementary medicine has much to offer children. To help you get started, we’ve talked to the experts and asked for advice.
Divorce – can your child survive?
Sometimes the Jerichos in our lives crumble overnight. In other instances it is a slow process, where one brick is removed at a time to eventually dismantle a stronghold. Marriages often end in divorce in just this way, and the process overwhelms not only the couple, but also the lives of their children. Walk this journey with Nicolette Ferreira as she explores one of the most profound changes that a child can face.
Concentration Can be Taught to Kids
Improving concentration in children can be achieved not only by using clinically proven natural medicines, but also by exposing them to training in the fundamental cognitive skills that underlie the learning process.
Communicating with Stressed Children
Every child lives out his or her unique life story. Each one is a story about an individual human being on his journey through life, living through countless unique experiences. Inevitably, many of these experiences will be difficult and stressful. It may make a huge difference to his future life if he can share these difficulties with someone. Can we as parents and child caregivers be there for our children and how do we best support them?
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Distressing childhood events don’t remain in our past; they can impact heavily on us during adulthood, causing both physical and mental ill health.
Build your Child's Confidence
A confident child is the most amazing magnet, drawing friends, opportunities and success to himself with absolute ease. A confident child is often a popular child, sometimes the teacher’s pet, and often the centre of attention when the family gets together. On holiday it doesn’t take long before a new friend is made. Things just come so easily to him.
ABC with Omega-3
Nutrition is an important factor in providing children with the building blocks they need for optimal cognitive development, and recent research highlights the role omega-3 fatty acids may play in reading, cognition and behaviour in children.
Benefits of Listening to Music in the Classroom
The benefits of adding background music during learning are numerous. Music, one of the joys of life, can be one of the joys of learning as well.
Traveling with Your Baby the Eco-friendly Way
Planning a trip with your new family, but concerned about the burden travel places on the environment? Joanne Austin has some eco-friendly ideas.
A Healthy Children's Party
Happily, more and more parents are trying to cultivate good eating habits in their children at home and at school, and are educating themselves on nutrition. This is good news because the shift towards healthier food is becoming irreversible. But what about the annual birthday party, with its tradition of high-sugar foods and loaded goodie bags – how do we cope here?
Children and their Habits
How often do you find yourself the centre of unwanted attention in the supermarket, as your three-year-old screams louder than ten vuvuzelas? Ann Gadd takes a look at children’s more unattractive habits, starting with tots who have tantrums.
Healthy and Hearty Lunch Box Ideas
Feeding children a wholesome, nourishing meal at school has never been more important. If you would like your children to be able to sit still and concentrate during lessons then it is vital that they are fed properly.
Computer & Cellphone Enslaved Children
There can be little doubt that electronic technology has opened the way to another form of soul addiction, promising to offer ever-more powerful and interesting gratification to the hungry unsatisfied soul of the child. Computer game, Internet and cellphone addiction disorders are not yet formally recognised as clinical psychological conditions, yet many clinics and rehab centres worldwide are treating them as full-on addictive disorders, recognising that the salient features fulfil all the criteria used to define an addictive behaviour disorder.
Back to School with No Stress
Do you remember your first day at school or in a new high school? It was likely a mix of excitement and anxiety. The start of a new school year can be overwhelming for children, but with a bit of preparation, it doesn't have to be stressful. Here are ten tips to help parents and children ease into the first term happily.
Starting Solids – let babies feed themselves
Forget apple mush and those little jars and spoons – simply let your baby feed herself. A baby’s instincts will lead him to do the right thing when it’s the right time. Trusting those instincts is what baby-led weaning is all about.
Feed Your Child's Brain
You can increase your child’s intelligence, attention span, concentration, problem-solving ability, emotional response, mood and physical coordination – all the facets of intelligence – simply by changing what goes into and onto their bowls, plates and lunch boxes.
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