Parent's Discusssion

EFT for coughing.

sunshinecoach — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:11:46 GMT

I was woken at 3.15 this morning by JM (age 8) coughing. Although he wasn't awake properly it was a nasty cough and obviously causing discomfort. I sat on his bed and gently rubbed his back for a few minutes. He was still coughing. I decided to do some EFT for him.

So quietly I tapped out the following:

Even though JM has a nasty cough, he's still a great kid. 3X on the Karate chop point.

I then continues around the rest of the tapping points saying JM's cough.

I did two rounds of this and then tapped in what I wanted for him.

Now JM can get a good and peaceful night sleep

JM is breathing deeply and is sleeping restfully ...

By the time I had gone through this sequence he was snuggled under the covers in a deep, relaxed sleep. The coughing had finished and my job was done.

I went back to bed and gave thanks for my strong healthy son. As a law of attraction coach I know this is an important step, sothat my focus remains on him being strong and healthy and not the coughing.

School - My 8 year old is repeating this year.

sunshinecoach — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:45:18 GMT

Hi, I wanted to share this story with you in case any of you ever find yourself in this situation.

At the end of last year my son's teacher informed me that the school felt Jack would need to repeat the year. He hadn't been able to get all of his work done and they felt he would struggle if he went up with the rest of the class.

I was devasted. I though somehow I had failed him. Now, I'm a Life Coach and a law of attraction practitioner (which means I know how to create my ideal life). How could this have happened?

Well, we're now a few weeks into the new school year and I know excactly why this happened. What a change. My son is so much happier than ever before and so confident. He's getting all his work done in plenty of time and thoroughly enoying school life. He's now the kid everyone wants to play with and I know this was the best thing that could have happened to him.

So please, If this happens to you, just go with the flow. Trust the schools opinion and you'll more than likely be so grateful it happened and your child will come on leaps and bounds in all areas.

There is no stigma attatched, like there is in UK. It's no big deal and many of the spanish kids repeat at some stage too. It's just how it works here. I wanted to share this experience with you to save any heartache in the future.

Best wishes

Wendy

www.loaliving.com

6 year old's separation anxiety

lgraha — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:54:17 GMT

My granddaughter, age 6, was awakened and told her dad was in the hospital. Her mom was going to the hospital and I (her grandma) was coming to be with her. Unfortunately, she overheard some of the discussions and realized her dad had tried to kill himself with an overdose of pills. Each time the phone rang, she would wake up and ask, "did he die:" Of course this was a horrible night and I tapped lots for everyone. When Monday came and for the next several days, she was not able to go to school or if she got there, would not want to stay. She missed her daddy. The school called and said she was hysterical and could I come get her. Her mom had to stay at work or lose another day's pay or her job! I had worked with her before with tapping so we tried it again. I am pleased to report that after only a short time she was able to stop the hysterical crying and return to class. The tapping was simple. Even though I really miss my daddy and I don't want him to die, I'm a good kid. I'm safe. This stuff works!

Night terrors

Renee Banchiere — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:58:49 GMT

Help. I am grandma looking for help for my grand daughter. She is one of twin girls, 5 years old. She has frequent night terrors. She also has waking rages. Twice i have used the set up phrase without any tapping saying "even though you are having difficulty calming yourself down, i love you and you are a great kid" This has had an immediate effect in calming her. But, i am not there for the night terrors. My daughter describes it as lasting for hours and many times each week. I think these two episodes has gotten the attention of the skeptic in mommy and daddy. If there are any suggestions for me from this community i would love to hear them.

Renee

Newbie- Just been told my son could have ADHD

catriona — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:51:36 GMT

Hi all.

I'm new here and wanted to say hi and tell you a bit about what is happening with my son and me.

my son has been assesed in school by an Educational Psychologist for the past few weeks and she called me on Wed to tell me that she is referring my son to the hospital to be tested for ADHD. I had looked into ADHD years ago and have kept an eye on him to watch his behavoir, but i've been fobbed off till now- maybe because I've changed schools and they are more pro-active? Since the phone call I feel terrible- I dont want to wait months for the referral and so that brings me to this site. I'm really willing to try anything to help my son. We have a reward chart and I really try to watch what he eats but its hard because I cant control what he eats at school. Now the summer holidays are here I am ready to hit the ground runnning with timetables, good proper food and I'm going to try tapping! Also on the herbal remedies website said they have the mixture called 'Focus' which I would like to research some more and maybe try that.

i would really like any views, input, things to try and your support is truly grateful.

looking forward to hearing from you

Catriona

a very happy child turning into a weepy clingy child

rhitu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:39:07 GMT

I am a neewbie to EFT in the sense that I have started practicing it actively very recently. I am as a consequence not sure of t chehe results and whether I am really making any headway wit the isues I tap for.

I therefore write to you for help with my 14 month old son. He is generally a very happy and amiable baby. Of lately however I have been noticing that he has become extremely clingy and even if i step out of the room to go into the kitchen, he starts crying following me there. I would like to mention that my husband is a consultant and therefore stays out of town 4 days a week. Additionally, he refuses to sleep on his bed even though its next to mine and keeps getting up every hour and he needs to be picked up and patted back to sleep.I do not know if he is just scared that I will leave him and go as well.

I have tried EFT for him on all the above but I do not seem to be making any headway at all. Maybe the phrases I am using are not correct.... I am not sure.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for the long email.

Best regards
Rhitu

Set-up phrase and fear of doctors

irisa73 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:43 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I have 2 questions:

1. What set-up phrase to use when tapping on my baby (2.5 months) or toddler (2.5 yrs old)? Should I say - "even though YOU have this ______, YOU deeply and completely accept yourself"? Or is it better to tap on myself as surrogate? and if I'm the surrogate and I have toxins that hinder EFT from working for me (I'm working on this), does that mean I won't be able to surrogate till I'm cleared up?

2. My toddler is terrified of doctors, she screams and wails and uses all her might to avoid a visit to the doctor. I've tried tapping on her "even though you're afraid of doctors, you deeply and completely accept yourself" before we enterd the doctor's office last time, but it didn't work - she screamed and fought to escape same as always. Was I doing it wrong?

Thanks a lot,

Iris

surrogate phrasing

lululu — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:41:00 GMT

Hello to everybody.

I would like to put together some scripts to surrogate my child of 3 years and half and for this purpose I will try to explain the situation a little bit.

He has had some episodes of ear infections and now a polyp in his nose. I took him to every possible health care practitioners dealing in natural healing. Among them a reflexologist/cranial-sacral/therapist and a kinesiologist.

Both explained that his phisical ailments are of emotional nature: a sort of conflict with me, he feels loved but not accepted.

it is an emotional issue linked to me, and himself as well, for a little part he is also struggling to accept himself.

The reflexologist found that his root chakra and throat chakra are not working properly, that the left ear (the one with hear loss and recurrent ear infections) are related to a conflict with a female character: I said right away: it must be me, he is most of the time with me, there are not too many people in his life and I don't leave him with anybody.She said the throat also represents verbal conflicts and problems in comunication (this has been my problem too and my throat chakra is blocked too ).

During this path I also came accross the explanation given by Louise Hay for the hearing loss and ear problems and they really refer to too much arguing, the wish from the child to seal off, not wanting to hear and so on.

And the kinesiologist explained that the nose is related to the issue of "control" (most probably from me).

The kinesiologist added that my son also has an issue for not having the father around:the absence of the father is playing some role, and it's more the fear of not seeing the father than the fact that he is not available per se'.

If I describe the mother I am - or better the person I am I would say that:

I have some emotional issues (lack of self-esteem, control, guilt, etc,) I am a single parent and also have some phisical issues which would make me often feel tired and therefore less tolerant to the normal behavior of a toddler.

My "emotional healing" is not an easy path: I have been a "negative" person most of my life and in spite of the fact that I have tried many things,

then I kind of "bounce back" to my original print. When my son was born I wanted to give him the best I could (( I have breastfed him for 3 years / when he was an infant I would run to him at his first cry / I never let him with a baby sitter, I still co-sleep with him beside his crib / I just wanted to tell him: I am here for you baby )), so I started insisting on getting better myself in order to benefit him

for me raising a kid has resulted being the most difficult thing. Being a parent has meant to me like landing on mars: know nothing about it,and things are not natural to me.

Don't know how to talk to them, when they fuss, instead of taking into consideration that they are just kids, I start getting nervous and feel lost.

I have spent lot of time reading about parenting, watching videos about parenting, and I also attended parenting classes,

Surely breastfeeding was a wonderful bonding, and once I weaned him his ear infections started flaring, (he would never want to be weaned, still today he comes to me, put his face on my *** and say: I love teat mom I love to nurse).

It's a fact that I am always stressed out, always in a hurry, always trying to accomplish one million things.

It's a fact also that I am always anxious about the fact that he might get hurt, if I compare myself to the mothers at the park, I definetely can say that I am very anxious.

In my whole life I have been used to manage my time the way I wanted, but with a child this is impossible and I definetely miss my freedom.

SO WHAT I am trying to do now is to put into practice more all the things that I have learnt, like positive thinking and positive affirmations,I am using several EFT scripts for myself (gratitude/self love/awakening early morning) I am doing some yoga (breathing).

The reason of my post is that I would like to add another EFT EXERCISE, this time it would be a surrogate tapping for my child, but I can't find the words to put together:

they would be :

--words concerning his anger (he surely must have anger stored in his body)

--words concerning the stress from me ("let's go we are late, we have to run now, come on let's go")

--words concerning his phisical ailments as well (hear loss - ear infections - nasal polyp)

--words concerning the lack of his father

--words concerning the wish to express himself the way he wants (this issue came up too)

In the latest 2-3 monthes I also noted that while he talks (he knows a lot of words in 2 languages) he does not make the sentence right away, he puts words together but as if in his brain he is still looking for them, as if he is stammering. And this make me think once again that it could be related to the throat charka.

I am already pronouncing in front of him things like "I want to feel good - I approve of myself - my body heals itself " and ask him to repeat them with me in a sort of game.

I cannot explain how much I feel bad knowing that this little Golden Soul that God gave me is ill because I am not yet the mother I want to be.

I cannot explain the amount of guilt that circulates in my body, in my mind, everywhere in me for that.

I thank in advance for any help.

Reading -- she thinks she can -- but she can't

Heidi — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:02:12 GMT

I am wriitng about my 7 year old daughter, Alexa. Her teacher has informed me that she is really struggling academically in school, but when asked about reading, she beams and calls herself a good reader. However, when we read together she really struggles with sounding out words and does not want to practice. From word to word she cannot remember vowel sounds and.or patterns (can, fan, man). I want to use EFT to tap with her around her reading -- or inability to read. The only problem is that she thinks she reads just fine! :) She does not complain of not being able to read -- or spell or write. How do I tap without saying: "Even though reading is hard for me . . ." Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Heidi

Fear of monsters and ghosts

Charlene Logsdon — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:49:28 GMT

Hi, My 5.5 year old son has Sensory Processing Disorder and has increased anxiety about many things. However, his fear of monsters and ghosts in the house is escalating and he now won't go to the bathroom without me standing outside the door. I can't be in any other room in the house without him standing right next to me. How do I relieve his fears and help him to be comfortable in his own home? I tried tapping on him while he talked about his fears, but, his imagination runs away with him and he went from talking about monsters/ghosts to intruders coming into our home and how he wants to protect himself. He didn't get any relief from my tapping. Thanks, Charlene

summer holidays are for tapping

Eric — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:24:04 GMT

As summer holidays are begining for many young people this time of year poses obvious challenges for parents as they must manage more of the daytime activities of their children, but summer holidays also provide a good time to work with children on the issues that might have arisen in school.

Why not try to use summer and vacation times to employ EFT in non academic, but still important traits and behaviors. Personal improvement (improving skills and self confidence in team sports and activities, remedial classes or summer school make-up work); phobias (dealing with fears of water, animals, flying and other encounters kids are more likely to have during vacations and time outdoors); physical issues (managing pain and discomfort from scrapes and falls, stings, allergies, sun burn, etc.)

Our moderators are experienced in working with all of these subjects. Give EFT a special try with your kids this summer and report back if you have successes or questions. Away from the demands of homework and peer pressure they may be more receptive to EFT when it can immediately come to their aid.

Happy, safe, summer tapping.

Surrogate EFT for Night Terrors

GregC — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:08:59 GMT

I had taken away my two-year-old son's pacifier, which possibly exacerbated his night terrors. I didn't like using the bottle to put him back to sleep, since he could eventually equate using food to "pacify" strong emotions. I decided to use surrogate EFT when I heard him start to cry, specifically using mental tapping on my own meridians. After a few rounds of Basic Recipe, he quieted down where before he would work himself into a frenzy that only a bottle would fix. Evidently, I haven't gotten to the root issue, because he has these episodes a couple times a night, but we're at least able to work through the night terrors effectively.

Help needed- 2 Boys 7 and 5

kasteide — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:29:39 GMT

Hello, I really need some help. I have two boys, ages 7 & 5. They are great boys. My oldest has some issues with self control (impulse control) and he gets upset extremely easy. I have taken him to the doctor at the request of more than one teacher ( they believe he has ADD).I don't know what else to do for him. I have tried tapping, I have taught him to tap and nothing seems to be helping. I'm not sure if I'm doing it right. His younger brother is in Kindergarden and until now, had none of the issues he had. This year, he seems to be going down the same path. I am not sure what else to do. I have tried just about everything imagineable and nothing is helping. Any advise would be greatly appreicated.

Pacifier / Dummy success!

peanut — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:57:33 GMT

Hi. I learned some EFT from youtube almost a year ago now. It has been a great help in some pretty tricky situations. But, by far, the most outwardly obvious success has been in getting my baby off the pacifier.

I never expected that he would be totally addicted to it. I was really getting concerned about his dental health because his teeth were growing in such a way that he could not bite with his front teeth.

We lost the pacifier one night (before learning EFT) and after an hour of sobbing and searching we went to the supermarket and had to buy him an identical one.

We lost it again a month later (just after finding out about EFT). I was prepared for the sobbing and the late night dash to the supermarket again. But I just tapped him to "see if it'd work". He still sobbed after I tapped, but, as I dressed him to take him to the shops he got distracted. He later happily fell asleep in my arms without it! I shrugged it off as just exhaustion and waited for the morning when he'd really need it. But he went through the whole day without asking. The night came and he asked for it. I thought we would be really upset so I tapped again. He fell asleep again in my arms! Yeah! He has never had it since. I have never had to tap him again. His teeth have restored their natural bite now too.

I cannot get over how easy that was. I sit here thinking of how good it was for him that it was a smooth transition.

Gynjild

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Tightness in hips (dancer)

mxwalker — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:34:10 GMT

I've used EFT at a surface level using only free materials from emofree.com for a couple of years. I decided this month to deepen my understanding and use of EFT, so I ordered all 3 DVD libraries. It has been tremendously helpful to view the 2 Basic Course DVDs.

Within the first week, I was able to help my family and work colleagues quite a bit more than before. For example, I picked up my 14-year-old daughter from her dance class one night last week. She asked to set an appointment w/ Greg, our chiropractor. I said, sure, we could do that. I asked what was wrong. "My hips are tight." So, I suggested we try EFT. We skipped the setup, and did a few rounds of EFT short cut. I added 9-gamut at one point, I think, and we finished up with 1 floor-to-ceiling eye roll. In that 10-minute drive home, she tapped the tightness in her hips down from an 8 to a 0. At her suggstion, we checked it again after she was up and walking, and it rose again to a 1, which we quickly took back to 0 w/ the eye roll again.

This daughter of mine responds much more quickly to EFT than I, who suffer from some chronic illnesses. But I'm learning to trust the process much more and we're having more success. Greg, by the way, is keen on tapping and very excited about the exploration; he's not resistant, even though he may lose a few office fees. He is a wise enough healer to not practice medicine that way.

Seizure disorders Practioners

tscmommy109 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:14:45 GMT

Does anyone know a practioner that knows EFT for seizure disorders? Or at least some experience? We are in IL and our toddler is having some sleep issues due to her meds and wanted to get in touch with someone who may have been down that road before. Thanks

PDD NOS Austistic Boy - 12 yrs

hvs — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:39:56 GMT

Hello,

I am new to EFT but am learning and take it very seriously. I am excited about all the potentials of its use in my family!

I have a 12 year old boy who was diagnosed with PDD NOS (prevasive developmental delay non-specific) very early on - approx. 2 yrs old. He didn't talk until he was almost 5 and was in early intervention schooling for years. Then I maintreamed him into the public school in 1st grade where he had a one-on-one aid for 3 years. He is in 6th grade now and is in special day class but is mainstreamed into science, PE, music, etc. He speaks fine ( alittle delayed) and tends to get anxiety esily. Transitions are the worst. I or the teacher have to narrate what is going to happen during the day.

The main problem is he tends to go into a dream world and talks to himself often. He needs to be on a low dose medication to help him focus. He doesn't have the sensory issues that he use to have. He is capable of tapping himself.

Can you recommend a process and verbage to help me get started with him?

Thank you in advance!

PS - I have read a lot of the forum entries and articles both on learning disibilities and austism.

developmental delay

vlynnieg — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:45:30 GMT

I'm new to this and was pointed in this direction by my friend. I have a newborn, 9 1/2 weeks old, and he already missing milestones in the social area of development. He actively avoids eye contact most of the time, and seems to 'ignore' people, although he passed the newborn hearing screen, and he was late to begin smiling, and smiles don't come often from him. Once I began to notice that, I began to work with him on it. I finally got him to smile at me the first time about a week ago. I was so happy I cried tears of joy. I have only gotten 2-3 more smiles from him since then. He is hitting all of his developmental milestones in the other areas of development, and I have a consult with a neurologist tomorrow to have him evaluated. He is 'too young' to get a diagnosis of autism, but my gut says that this may very well be the case.

Anxiety with a 12 old girl

desiree — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:24:02 GMT

HI- I am brand new here.I am a mom of a great 12 year old girl.She has been on Prozac for many years because of anxiety.This was not a easy choice.It was months of therapy-counseling-praying-accupuncture ...you name we tried it.We got 4 diferent opinions from Dr.'s.She has been doing really well,lately the probelm has been-prior to any type of event that gets her nervouse she cries and then cannot stop.She never asks to get out of a situation and she tries very hard to stop.Well in 6th grade kids notice this and this can be embarrasing- I am sure for her.I only learned at 1 workshop the EFT technique.I guess I would like some help on what points should I work on with her and how could she do the tapping if she is in a locker room with girls? or on the court? I am such a newbie and I truly think this could be a great new world for her,and maybe even get her off of the meds at some point.So thank you in advance for any help.

Why the words we use with Children are so important –Validating their Feelings

ChristineM — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:59:10 GMT

I wrote this case study as it illustrates both why the words we use with our children are so important

and the usefulness of using EFT for clearing remainder unresolved aspects of a family issue. About four months ago, I was driving one of daughters back home from school. I was chatting to her about upcoming video filming of children’s issues. We mused as to which children and families to invite and which issues we could cover. Anyone who knows me and my work with children, young people and families know that I actively involve the EFT target audience every time for inspiration and material. The answer I got back from my 11 year old was a surprising discovery. “Well”, she said, “you can work on me”“What about ?” I asked“I’m still a bit angry ……. She had said enough in a few brief comments that made me see that we needed to work together. Before I finish explaining what was said, perhaps I should back track a few years to explain. About 8 years earlier, when Rachel was about 3.5 years old, and before I was familiar with EFT, we lived in another house. One summer night unbeknown to me an opportunist burglar entered a neighbours’ house on the opposite side of the road, through an open window of their downstairs living room, took car keys, let himself out of the front door and took the family car. The next morning as we having breakfast a policeman knocked on my front door. I answered and he enquired as to whether I had seen or witnessed anything. I had no idea it had happened, I hadn’t seen or heard anything and said that my husband hadn’t mentioned anything either. As both daughters we both quite young at the time it didn’t even dawn on me to ask them and I was glad that they were sitting at the back of the house where they didn’t hear the conversation. When I returned to the kitchen, my elder daughter (5 years old) asked who called. I tried to skirt around the subject a little as I didn’t wish to make them frightened and too wary. For me they were too young yet to fully understand without perceiving the world as a scary place. I told them that a policeman had been asking me about cars in the street. “Oh”, said Rachel,” I saw a man at Andy’s window last night” she piped. “I think he might have been a robber.” She was right, but again I judged that she was too young to hear the whole truth as we only lived a few yards away. “How did you see that?” I asked. A bit puzzled. “You said if I can’t sleep at night that I can look out the window at the moon. I did and I saw a man in the garden.” I consciously made the decision that I felt was right at the time and that was to play the incident down a bit. I must say that I wasn’t sure what to think, she couldn’t describe him as it had been dark and I was beginning to wonder maybe whether she could have heard some of the conversation that I had with the policeman. I told them that he had said that someone had been messing with a car, but they were not to be worried about robbers because we are safe at home. It didn’t seem to affect her too much at the time, although she did have a tendency to worry about robbers getting into the house occasionally over the subsequent years. I put these expressions down as part of normal development and totally forgot about this original incident. A few years later, the house of a friend of Rachel’s was burgled. This reminder Rachel of the original incident, she had a few sleepless nights saying things like ‘I need to keep awake in case a robber tries to get into the house’. Again this was prior to working with EFT, so I did my best to talk her through her fears. She was settled enough again. Apologies, as this is a bit like a flashback movie, but back to the present day. At 11 years old now, she explained, “Well, I sleep OK now because we worked on scary robbers” True enough, Rachel had tapped herself to sleep on several occasions in the last couple of years over thinking about robbers - all my family are active tappers.We had tapped on ‘robbers in the house’ and ‘I believe that it won’t happen’ , ‘we’ve got an alarm’ and ‘Mum and Dad will hear if anything happens’ “But now that I’m older I still feel angry that you never really believed me that I heard something. You never believed me that I got out of bed and saw him. I still think sometimes that it will happen again.” She said all this calmly, but I did take real notice as Rachel is a girl of few words but usually wise words.I thanked her. It seemed that EFT could be useful. So with Rachel’s permission, we set up the filming for a one to one session with Rachel to dig a bit deeper. First we started by working through what happens in Rachel’s body when she hears noises in the night. We tapped together, working through the various aspects and reducing the intensity of feeling as we went. “When I wake up at night and even if it’s quiet, sometimes I’m frozen to the bed” “ My legs are like jelly “ “I’m too scared to get up in case I see someone in the house” We made reasonable progress but I was getting a feeling that more lay beneath. Although her demeanour was fairly relaxed, I sensed that there were more layers to emerge and clear. I didn’t have to wait long. As Rachel relaxed, she made comment on words that I had used to her in the past. This is when I, as a mum received a bolt of insight and I was a bit ashamed. “When I have talked to you about robbers, you’ve always said, ‘don’t be silly’, but I’m not silly.” This piece of information held the core for Rachel, I really had no idea that this throwaway comment had meant so much to her. Whenever she had talked about robbers in the house I had said, ‘Ah, Rachel, don’t be silly’.I had broken a basic parenting rule. It seems that my attempt to dilute her fear by saying it was unlikely to happen to us had indeed done more damage. More talking and tapping revealed that importance of allowing validation of your children’s feelings. We tapped on her feelings about being ‘labelled’ silly. We tapped for her feelings about not being believed. We tapped on mummy’s feelings about how I had affected Rachel. Working with each of these aspects Rachel showed emotion and then cleared distress after a couple of rounds each time. Being able to use the tapping process Rachel clearly benefited from unloading her feelings. After this, she talked more and explained that, “I think that because you didn’t hear anything when it happened before (all those years ago) that I’m the only one that can hear stuff at night. I know that’s probably not true, but that’s the way I feel.”Wow, it seemed that my daughter at the age of 3.5 years had decided that she needed to be night watch man, because she was the only one that heard anything. She had told her parents that she had seen a real robber and they had not believed her and then had the cheek to tell her not to be silly. She actually believed that because she couldn’t be sure that we would hear robbers she felt she was the only one who would be able to hear or see robbers in the night. With this all off her chest and using tapping as we talked, Rachel did her own healing. She taught me a huge lesson about allowing your own children to talk and validate their feelings whenever possible. We finished off with tapping on, ‘Even though Mummy was silly for not listening to my expert night watch lady, Rachel aged 3.5 years, she’s usually a good mummy’. Rachel showed huge physical relief by the end of all this. She said she felt really strong, she uncharacteristically punched the air. She was pleased with herself for being able to explain so much about how she felt. She reported that even though she knew that she had felt like this inside for many years that tapping had made it easy to ‘get it out’. We both learnt important lessons. I am glad to say that Rachel no longer feels the responsibility on her to be vigilant for robbers, she says she no longer gets those feelings in her body if she is awoken at night and she is happy that her parents don’t say ‘Don’t be silly’ any more. Happy sleeping. Christine Moran

6 year old's teeth are too big for mouth

Dana — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:57:28 GMT

Can anyone help me? My 6 year old just came back from the dentist and he said that his baby teeth are not leaving enough room for his grown up teeth (that are now coming in) to come in. That in 6 months he will have to start wearing a retainer to stretch the mouth out to help it grow so there is enough room for his big teethe to come in. Then possibly in a couple of years he may have to have some teeth pulled...and then eventually braces etc etc. I have been tapping all of my children for 4 years now...and this one has me stumped! I've been tapping not enough time with mom, not enough time for Jakob...but I'm having trouble getting to the core issue.

Thanks for any insights

Dana

EFT for kids under 5 years

Didry — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:38:12 GMT

Hello, I read that the EFT should be used for children over 5 years old. My son is 3 years. Is it safe to use EFT for him?

My Toddler wont stop rocking when she sleeps HELP!

singlemomof1 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:04:49 GMT

I am a single parent to a beautiful 2 year old little girl. Since she was 15 months old she has been rocking in her sleep, she broke her crib because of this, she will not sleep in her bed so now she is sleeping in her playpen which when she rocks moves across the floor. I bought matts to go under it that wont work, She rocks all night long! I go into her room refresh her bottle make her comfortable and she dozes off but in an hour she is rocking again and it goes on like that all night. I even had my neighbors complain of the noise, im getting no sleep someone please help me try to fix this problem.

Help with handwriting

Carol Gordon — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:07:47 GMT

My 8 year old son has always struggled with his handwriting, despite being an excellent reader and pretty good speller. I tried tapping with him about this and built in the fact that he was 6 weeks premature (which he already knew about), and had he been born on his due date he would have been in the year below at school, one of the eldest instead of the youngest. I felt that he expected himself not to be able to write neatly and he hated trying as he just got more and more frustrated. After a couple of weeks of tapping, but not every day, I saw a marked improvement at home. Iapproached his teacher tentatively, afraid that I was seeing what I wanted to see rather than what was really there. To my great delight she was astounded not only at the improvement in his actual handwriting but also by his willingness to write and by the amount of written work that he was producing! I am going into school this afternoon to show her the technique. I can't wait to use it more and more to help improve his performance in other areas - thank you EFT!