Verbal First Aid for Children

What has happened in our culture and in our families that we are more worried about whether our kids like us than whether we properly prepare them for a life?

That our words have not only emotional impacts on others, but measurable, magnificent physiological effects is nothing short of astounding.

Therapeutic suggestion is particularly effective with children. Logic and expectation are not yet the barriers they become for adults and it is easier to reach them with healing suggestion.

The mother's words and her tone not only soothe her child emotionally, they begin to slow down the inflammatory response so that a disaster is averted.

The goal is for parents to make sure physicians attend not only to the medicine but to the positive emotion that contributes to healing and reduces pain and to forge an alliance.

Behavior management with children is a way of life, not a one-time application. It is a way of communicating and relating over time.