Miss USA Pageant Tips: The Beautiful, the Bizarre and Downright Dangrous

Maybe you've seen the freaky things pageant moms do to their kids to get them "runway ready." Toddlers and Tiaras shows little ones getting spray-on tans, flippers (fake teeth), plucked eyebrows, waxing, shaving, makeup, hair-sprayed dos. After reading the beauty tips from Miss USA pageant contests, I see where this crazy thinking comes from. Not all. Some is just common sense exercise and nutrition. Others? Weird. Here's the beautiful, bizarre and downright dangerous on pageant prep. The better beauty tips? Miss USA Pageant Tips: The Beautiful and the Bizarre - Yahoo News

How I Self-Discipline, Change Habits Using Al-Anon Slogans

Self-discipline is something I've never had trouble with. I've got a nasty case of low self-esteem. Auto-flagellation my modus operandi. But rigid self-control isn't healthy. It doesn't work either. Here's a simple self-help plan I created, based on Al Anon principles, to modify behavior and change habits. How I Self-Discipline, Change Habits Using Al-Anon Slogans 

How I Avoid Antidepressants with Daily Mental Affective Meditations

How I Avoid Antidepressants with Daily Mental Affective Meditations In nearly 30 years of mental health exploration, personally and professionally, I've tried many different techniques. Nine years ago, I began a regimen of antidepressant therapy but quit 18 months ago. I've since developed ways to tend to my emotional health without medication. Here's a home-grown technique I call "mental-affective meditations." It employs some 12-step work, cognitive therapy, healing of the inner child and family tree and re-parenting tools. Read on...

Parent-Child Role Reversal: Emotional Blackmail

Parent-Child Role Reversal: How Children Emotionally Blackmailed into Parenting Their Parents
Parent-child role reversal occurs when parents make their children responsible for their behavior and happiness. The child becomes the parent and the parent acts the child.  How do parents make children sway roles?
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Parent-Child Role Reversal:Shame-Based Behavior

Parent-Child Role Reversal and Shame-Based Behavior
Alcoholism and sexual abuse are obvious causes of shame-based behavior in children. Other parenting behaviors shame children also. Parent child role reversal causes shame-based behavior in children. It breaks down a child's self-care boundaries.
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Toxic Shame vs. Healthy Guilt:

What is Toxic Shame and How Does it Differ from Healthy Guilt?
What is shame? Shame is good, healthy guilt that has gone bad. Shame is also organic guilt with no foundation in reality. Guilt as a limit switch for unhealthy behavior, is healthy, when it remains in proportion and is  merited. Read More

Stinkin Thinkin, Toxic Behavior and Detachment in Relationships

Stinking Thinking and Toxic Behavior: Mental Detachment
In a relationship with stinking thinking and toxic behavior? If someone you love has stinking thinking with toxic behavior you need to detach. Your job is to keep yourself safe. Emotional and mental detachment is one method.
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Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder: Scratching, Hair-Pulling and Self-Stimuation Behaviors

Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder Behavior: Scratching, Picking, Hair Pulling and Self-Stimulation
Autistic children exhibit frightening behaviors like self-abuse and mutilation. As a child, I exhibited autistic behavior; later I taught autistic children. I'll explain self-abuse from experience and research.
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Tweens: Understanding is the Key

Tweens: What is a Tween?
Tween is a buzzword that defines the 9-12 year old child, caught be-'tween' childhood and teenager. Lower ages of puberty have caused a social, cultural and educational push-down. We need to understand our tween to best help them.
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