Tuesday, October 16, 2012

My Quotes

Here are some quotes that I have written.  I rather like them. 

Feel free to quote me!  Melissa Neece


"Don't you just love it when people treat facts like they were 

opinions and how dare you offend them with these facts."




"Sorry, but I just can't see the difference in putting a baby in 

a dark room alone to cry and putting a child in a dark 

closet/basement to cry. Both seem like punishment/abuse to 

me."


"The healthiest, happiest life is one that is in balance."


"Its interesting that Wheat Grass is a superfood, and Wheat 

Grain is an addictive poison."


"Store Coupons are the vortex of time-consuming evil"


I've just come under the re-realization that there are those that believe that every word of the bible is coming from God's mouth, vs. those that believe that the bible is a true account of what is happening at the time. Both believe in the utter veracity of the Bible, but there sure is a difference."


"Yes, you are a breastfeeding Bigot if you have a problem 

with full-term breastfeeding."



"Anti-cio statement - To be completely un-politically correct, 

you can always tell moms that if you don't feed your baby at 

night, you are making your baby stupid, as most of night 

nourishment tends to go directly to growing and maintaining 

the brain."  A more tactful way of saying it: If you let a baby cry when he is hungry at night, you are lowering their brain IQ, as night nourishment goes directly to growing and maintaining the brain. As an older baby/toddler there are many gentle strategies to use if they are constantly waking (Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solutions book), but if the baby/toddler is hungry, then s/he should be fed.


"In an ideal world, formula would never have been invented, we would all breastfeed, or use wet nurses, or use milk banks, and SAHM could make some nice income by selling their milk - and most likely, the healthier your diet, the more valuable your milk. :) And this would be considered normal, and no one would think anything of it."

"Ephesians 6:4 - Do not provoke your children to anger but raise them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Not how society or culture would discipline/instruct them but how Jesus would. And in all the stories with Jesus with children, he greatly respected them - he gave them respect when most would ignore them."

"I'll let you....I don't mind if....I'll allow you to" - Do not let any doctor at any stage of your life ever treat you like a wayward disobedient child. He's not the high school principal! There are so many that do - you are an adult and can make your own decisions! Just some empowering talk there - you can do it - as long as it is YOUR choice YOUR decision!"

"80% of the world nurses to age 4. This is just fact, its not the American baby's fault that he/she is born in a society that is bigoted towards full-term breastfeeding (ages 4-6). I too used to think it was weird, until I found out that it should be normal, natural, and is extremely healthy/beneficial in all ways."


"The New Testament church thought circumcision was blasphemous - an outright denial of faith in Jesus Christ. I wish more Christians knew that."





Here are some of my favorite quotes by other people:

"When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline." ~Haim G. Ginott

"Today's opinions may not be the same as yesterday's, because they are based on better and fuller evidence. We should quite often have occasion to say 'I used to think that once, but I have now come to hold a rather different opinion'. People who never say as much are either ineffectual or dangerous." Peter Medawar."

..if we just removed wheat from the western diet, we could probably avert a whole array of human ills because when you mix flour with water, what do you get? A gut full of glue! - Naturally Better Kids

"Once in awhile it really hits people that they do not have to experience the world in the way they have been told." Alan Krightley

"People need to understand if they're *deciding* between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi. They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available." ~ Chele Marmet

Teach children what to think and you limit them to your ideas.
Teach children how to think and their ideas are unlimited.
~Sandra Parks

Guggie Daly quote: "Grief can come about with any loss, whether you feel responsible for it or whether you think it was pushed upon you. Everyone has a right to grieve. Sometimes, people aren't even aware they are grieving. They become attracted to the topic like a moth to light. Something pricks at their soul, but they aren't aware yet why
.  If you are healing from decisions made that can't be taken back...be gentle on yourself. Take the time you need. Let the tears fall. Don't force yourself to think about it, read about it, be a part of it everyday. That is not always the path to healing."



"It's not about where you birth (or how you birth), its about how you are made to feel at your birth!" - Nora Rae Ramirez

From Lynn Heinisch: We would be horrified if our parents were in nursing homes and left to cry because 'they need to self soothe.' When I make that comparison, people normally have the 'ah ha' moment.

From Heal Thyself:  I believe about half of what the CDC says, little that an MD says and about nothing the FDA says.

“It is important to make the distinction between guilt and regret. Guilt is what we feel when we knew better and didn’t act on what we knew. Regret is the sadness we feel when we learn something new that we wish we had known earlier. Making the distinction between guilt and regret is important as we embark on learning different ways of parenting.” -- Pam Leo, Connection Parenting

"Watch out for those wicked men – dangerous dogs, I call them – who say you must be circumcised. Beware of the evil doers. Beware of the mutilation. For it isn’t the cutting of our bodies that makes us children of God; it is worshiping him with our spirits." – Phillipians 3:2-3

"You can't vaccinate believing that your children are protected and then feel that your children are not protected because somehow, some non-vaccinated child is carrying some secret organism that no one else is carrying. It just doesn't make any sense." -- Dr. Larry Palevsky, pediatrician
The Truth About Vaccines

"Intactivist = Someone who believes that ALL human beings, regardless of age, sex, nationality, parents' chosen religion, the tools with which they would otherwise be cut, and how much/how little they would otherwise have amputated, are equally deserving of, and born with, the basic right to genital autonomy." ~Danelle Frisbie







Essential Oil Info

So I have been diving into the world of Essential oils.  I feel like this will be an undertaking of Years of learning - there is so much information out there!
But in my typical way, I've picked up a few nuggets of precious information.

Essential Oil company recommendations:

Butterfly Express - known to be "as good as" the oils from the powerhouses of Young Living and Doterra, these oils are 100% Therapeutic Grade, and they are actually reasonably and affordably priced.  I know women who use oils everyday, and without this company, they couldn't afford to do so.
Here's their official website: 
www.butterflyexpress.net/
Here's a friend's distributor site: 
http://stores.mybutterflyoils.com/StoreFront.bok
Here's a YL blends comparable chart:
http://butterflyexpress.biz/yl-comparable
Here's a Great Description chart of what each blend can do:
http://www.butterflyexpressions.org/Handouts/physical_emotional.pdf


But if money was no object?  Then you should check out these two companies:
NHR Organics
http://www.nhrorganicoils.com
Forevergreen
http://www.forevergreen.org/

Another interesting company is:
Native American Nutritionals
http://www.nativeamericannutritionals.com

http://wholenewmom.com/health-concerns/natural-remedies/announcing-the-best-essential-oils-company-and-a-great-sale/#more-17513

One thing to take into account that you might not have thought of:
As a Christian, it is imperative to me that the herbs, essential oils, salves, etc do NOT come from a pagan facility, company, shop, etc.  I have found that if I use these things, especially if they have been paganly blessed, that they either don't work as well, or that they outright make me sick.  I love finding Christian companies that sell these things - that's the best of both worlds!


Some other great blog posts on essential oils.  Please feel free to suggest others!
http://mindbodyandsoleonline.com/basic-principles-information-about-essential-oils/what-brand-of-essential-oils-should-i-use/

http://wholenewmom.com/health-concerns/natural-remedies/the-great-essential-oils-showdown-in-search-of-the-best-essential-oils/#comment-15083  (I read all the comments on this post - very informative!)


http://the-greener-good.com/2012/10/03/essential-oil-baby-solutions/


My Political Issues - Butt OUT government!


My important issues:
government to butt out of Raw Milk
government to butt out of Home Birth
government to allow Vaccine exemptions in all states (another butt out)
government to butt out of Organic farming
government to stop promoting pesticides and chemicals
government to actually protect babies - ProLife, ProIntact (stop medicaid funding for these acts! Medicaid - butt out!)
government to butt out of Homeschooling
government to promote labeling of harmful foods (gmos, artificial)
government to stop providing formula/ government to provide breastfeeding laws to help working women
government to stop stupid educational testing/ definitely NOT have it tied to teacher's salaries (a child could just fill in all the c answers!)

Of course, these are not the issues that matter to the candidates - but republicans usually tend to be pro-government butting out while democrats tend to be pro-government butting in/nannyin
g.
Unfortunately, this is not always the case, but on average, it tends to be.

I don't like my taxes spent on things that I don't agree with.  I don't like my taxes spent on moral issues either.  You are perfectly welcome to make laws that I don't agree with - but I have an issue with spending my hard earned money on the government spending money on implementing those laws.  Especially things like Medicaid paying for circumcisions and for abortions.