On Choosing To Only Have One Kid - Leonie Dawson - Shining Life + Biz. When I was growing up I always thought I’d have a lot of kids.
Four to be exact. Three boys named Dominic, Theodore and Bartholomew. And one little girl with bright wide blue eyes and a curly mop of golden hair and a spirit that was strong and vibrant. "Let me say this straight up. Having any only child is not selfish." By RACHAEL BALL There seems to be a lot of hubble and bubble at the moment about the increase in one child families.
A lot of it appears to be the many opinions about parents who choose to stop at one. Why I Won't Regret Having Only One Child. I promised myself that if I wasn’t pregnant with a second child by the time I turned 40, I’d put my ovaries to bed.
My 40th birthday was last month. And a deal’s a deal. On the occasion of my husband, Erik’s, 40th birthday, we sat on the deck of a restaurant that overlooked the glittering Monterey Bay. Twelve years together, now that Erik had obtained his first post-Psy.D job, we were both aware of a towing gravity shifting us into a future beyond years of scraping by on miniscule incomes as we put ourselves through graduate school. Why one child is enough for me: All of the joy, less of the crap.
Photo courtesy of Justin Lane Dahlia is home sick from school.
She’s dancing in a tutu from my second grade recital, its orange, green, and pink ruffles now rediscovered and tugged over her monkey pajamas. Highly Sensitive People and Depression: Overstimulation May Lead to Depression - Highly Sensitive and Creative. By Susan Meindl Recent research by social psychologist Elaine Aron and her team describes a set of human characteristics which she calls “high sensitivity.”
Her research suggests that approximately 15-20% of the human (and for that matter animals) have evolved to be markedly more responsive to their environment. It is not that these “highly sensitive people” (HSPs) are gifted with super-hearing or hyper-acute vision but rather, that they have nervous systems and minds which permit more stimulation to enter without automatically and unconsciously shutting it out, and further, that they then cognitively process the stimulation that they receive in more detail than others do. February 2005 - The Highly Sensitive Parent. More Comfort Zone Email Newsletters February/March 2005: Comfort Zone ONLINE Coping Corner: The Highly Sensitive Parent Sensitive children have an entire book about them.
What about sensitive parents? What are they like, what are their problems, what do they need? Let's begin with all the advantages of being a highly sensitive parent. Why I adore the night. It’s human to want light and warmth – our pagan ancestors had a calendar of fire-festivals, and God’s first recorded words, according to the Hebrew Bible are ‘Let there be light.’
Night belongs to the dark side- literally and metaphorically – ghosts, scary monsters, robbers, the unknown. Electricity’s triumph over the night keeps us safer as well as busier, but whatever extends the day, loses us the dark. Gardening Australia - Fact Sheet: All About Rhizomes. Angus explains what rhizomes are and how to propagate from them Presenter: Angus Stewart, 13/06/2009 SERIES 20 Episode 20 Plants are made up of various parts: flowers, roots, leaves, and stems.
Stems hold plants erect so they can reach upwards for air and sunlight. They transplant food and nutrients to other parts of the plant, and store nutrients to produce new leaves and shoots from small bumps of tissue called nodes.