The Women Warriors

[RawMahdiyah]

Love Life Of A Baby

During the first few months, the baby may sleep most of the time-follow the lead of the child. Do not disturb the sleep with schedules or with unexpected visitors. The child will cry only when hungry or when sleep is disturbed. As the child grows, he or she will discover the exciting things missed because of sleep and will want to stay up later, but parents should initiate an hour for sleep which will make enough rest possible. It is a good practice to put the child to bed after meals, just as animals do.
Have a definite time for bed in the evening; enjoy a chat and read stories that will leave the child in a serene state. Better to read to a child stories of adventure, spirituality, biographies, nature and travel stories than tales of Santa Clause or Snow White. Let the child tell you goodnight stories which he/she recalls from past incarnations or has created from the day's adventures. Give a child intellectual material for etherical and mental growth. Read favorite stories many times. Act out some of them. Let the whole family share in this evening "read-in" as the last meeting for the day.
From the period of conception onward, the child is storing in the brain information from the environment and trying as much as possible to relate this information and make sense out of it. Do not fill the brain with silly baby talk, as many parents have a tendency to do. There is no need to invent new words for sexual organs or to imitate the child's manner of speaking. Remember, the child is trying to imitate the language patterns of the adult. As the child develops, he or she will drop the baby talk.
The brain of the baby, at birth, is already half as large as it will ever be, whereas the body has a lot of growing to do, so that from birth onward the intellect is much easier to work with. In conversation, answer questions thoughtfully and seriously. If you don't know the answer, look it up as soon as you can. Keep the child's quest for information satisfied. The Chinese prepare the child early for the adult world. They talk to the child from birth onward as if he or she were already an adult; as a result the child's brain develops much earlier than it otherwise would.
During the early years, provide a safe, protected environment, minimizing danger. Hazardous objects should be out of reach of the child. In nature, there are few dangers, but still a child needs guidance in the art of survival.
Encourage creativity. Avoid factory-made toys, unless they are designed to develop imagination and skills to help the child to understand the natural world. Nature has much more to teach and recreate than most toys.
Of all synthetic pacifiers, television is probably the most pernicious, instumental in spiritual, mental and physical deterioration of the growing child. Materialistic commercials equate love with food, possesions and sensuality. Children are bombarded with the details of violence, drugs, drunkenness and war. All too often this view becomes the children's real world, distorting, even forming, thier values and seperating them from emotional involvement with people, creating a perverted view of God and nature.
When excess television viewing replaces outdoor life and creative activity, it can weaken the body and dull the mind. Watching the flickering screen can damage the eyes. It has even induced convulsions in some individuals. Red has proven the color most potent in inducing convulsions; it is ten times as effective as green or blue. It seems quite probable that color television has played a part in the recent increase of epilepsy in America*.
Potentially, radiation can affect even future generations by altering the chromosomes of the growing child. I repeat, television can be dangerous.
Do not indulge the child. Independence of character and imagination and the capacity for love are built in a positive environment in which natural food is eaten and living is frugal. Hardship, participation in home chores, imaginative play and devotion to spiritual exercise will temper the spirit for heightened aspirations.
Let your family life reflect a moral principle. It is best held together by love for the sake of love (unconditional). The good life can be best developed in the company of those who love and let you be yourself. Practice more and teach less. Allow no violence in your hearts or your homes. Violence and cruelty are not part of love. Instruct with love and reason, never punishment. Train your children in the beautiful laws of God so that they may grow up emotionally secure with the wisdom to face all ordeals. Free your homes from all crossness, all harshness, all sarcasm. If you see a fault or weakness in anyone, do your best not to judge, or mention it to others. For by talking about it, we give it power. Rather, discuss the problem with the person concerned when the time is right. Maintain a sense of loyalty to the family or group.

A poet has stated:

A child who lives with criticism learns to condemn.
A child who lives with hostility learns to fight.
A child who lives with fear learns to be apprehensive.
A child who lives with pity learns self pity.
A child who lives with encouragement learns confidence.
A child who lives with praise learns to be appreciative.
A child who lives with acceptance learns to love.
A child who lives with recognition learns to have a goal.
A child who lives with fairness learns justice.
A child who lives with honesty learns what truth is.
A child who lives with friendliness learns that the world is a nice place in which to live.

Let your child spend the growing years in nature not in a polluted city. The youth of today connot afford to repeat the patterns of their parents.
Let us advance the concept of a tribe, learn to extend our boundries beyond the possession of two individuals entangled in the chains of matrimony. The future lies in group marriage-people joined to express common values, love and respect for one another.
The joy of having many brothers and sisters is already being practice in many of the city and wilderness communes. Children are not anyone's property. A poet has expressed that the parent might house the body of the child but not the child's spirit. Give your love freely but not your thoughts and opinions, for the child lives in the world of tomorrow, which may not prove accessible to you, unless you can become as the child-pure and open. Be willing to learn from a child; the child is your teacher as much as you are the child's and maybe more.
Let children grow within the framework of the tribe, with the rights and responsibilities of the adults. Let them be free of control by two parents. It is their right to develop within their own subsociety of peers. All the men will be their fathers and all the women their mothers. This way a child can grow, unhampered by possessive parents and may love and be loved freely. The child will be able to identify with several others instead of just physical daddy and mommy and will learn independence and self-reliance very early in life. There will be no childless couples or individuals. There will be no urgent need to reproduce in order to have a child with whom to share your life.
It seems to me most important to carry on the most intimate growth in the garden of two lovers in a natural environment within the framework of a larger society, where the communal struggle will evolve into a ritual of meaning. A life-style similar to that of the Essenes and teachings of the Prophets might be a good model.
Whether in context of tribe or other family setting, you will continue to act as guardian angels of the child. Yours will be the subtle responsibility to see that the child will have the environment to grow through the "karmic longings" in the vehicle it has chosen within your protecting guiding atmosphere.
When man and women are joined in a spiritual union, they have taken on a responsibility for their own growth. When you include others-children- into this union, you are expanding the partnership. You will be the guru of the child and the child will be your Master. There is a good reason for every relationship formed and every individual that you will encounter in your life. God has entrusted you with a particular child, not just any child. Just as much as he needs your guidance, so also you need the guidance from the child. You are special. Your child is special. You are all together for a special reason. God has plans for every family.
Make the family an experience of inner unfolding. Do not set up any emotional traps. Be an open channel for perfection. Family is a very important vehicle for greater self mastery and discovery. Do not forget that you are not alone when you live in a family, share the joys as well as the frustrations, fill the home with laughter and adventure.
Let us in the future build our roofs under trees, permeable to the light of God, and in the shadow of the family, each member unfold daily another petal of the perfect lotus so that we would give beauty and fragrance to the lives that surround us, and at the same time dwell in the mirth of our brothers and sisters.
Our mission within the next few generations is to bring heaven back into the temples of our bodies.



* Marshall, et al, AMA Arch. Neurol and Psych. 69: 760, 1953.

Thank you Viktoras Kulvinskas for your teachings.



RawMahdiyah
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"Cast down what is in your right hand. It will swallow up what they have wrought. Verily they have wrought only a sorcerer's stratagem; and a sorcerer does not succeed (no matter) from whatsoever (skilled group) he may come." (Quran-20:69)

[RawMahdiyah]

Give baby nature's perfect food-breast milk. Most nursing mothers have not had the benifit of having an organic raw food diet; as a result thir milk contains large amounts of DDT and other chemicals. However, this should not discourage them from breastfeeding. The composition of mother's milk is complex and precise, varying in nutrients and concentration in each species of mammal. No one can create an equivalent substitute. Dr. Goran Lofroth (Department of Radiobiology, Royal University of Stockholm) states: "I personally believe that human milk, when available, is superior to formula milk-and consequently the solution of the problem is not to abandon breasfeeding and human milk but, instead, to decrease and eventually stop the use of DDT and similar persistent chemicals."
If mother's milk is inadequate in quality of amount, there is no need to look for a substitute. Increasing the consumption of sesame seed, sprouts and juices/charged water will correct the condition. There is really no woman who cannot breastfeed (see www.lalecheleague.com).

Don't overfeed; let the child dictate to you how much, what food and at what time to serve it. Three or four feedings a day are adequate. Do not feed the child at night. Crying doesn't always indicate hunger. Feed the child enough to insure growth. You are overfeeding a child if superfluous secretions are discharged from his or her eyes, nose, ears. If a child has gas, it is because of the food eaten, air pollution or emotional factors.
Today doctors are beginning to recognize that overfeeding of children predisposes them to ailments. Dr. Roy Walford, UCLA Medical School, raised his rats nd mice on diets which contained only one third the calories of a normal diet, but all the vitamins, minerals and essential nutrients. The test animals liveed 50-100% longer than animals fed on a full diet, and developed 10-90% fewer cancers. He believes humans would live much longer if caloric intake were decreased in the very young, "the effect is less pronounced when you start in maturity" (Sunday Boston Globe, Nov. 7, 1971).
Dr. Paul Dudley White, former physician to the late President Eisenhower, told members of the Oregon Heart Association that children as young as two and three years old are showing signs of atherosclerosis (fatty deposits in atteries)! "The main reason...is that Americans are overfeeding their children with wrong foods and not encouraging them to get enough exercise."
Dr. White says that offending foods are large amounts of eggs, whole milk, cream, cheese, butter and meat. "Aside from containing to much saturated fat, some of these foods also contain large amounts of cholesterol, which is very bad for the circulation..."
Balance and moderation people!!!
Dr. Jack Soltanoff strongly objects to the feeding of starches and pasteurized milk to baby, instead he advocates fruit*: "...solids given to baby should be dates, figs, raisins, persimmons, well-ripened bananas, etc. rather than starched or cereals. [Organic] fresh fruit in summer and dry fruit in the winter are best. Many of the troubles that children suffer from are in large part due to the practice of feeding them straches, cereals, sugars and pasteurized milk. This is serious error as up until the end of the second year these foods are swallowed without being chewed or salivated sufficiently, and are eaten by an infant or child whose digestive juices have not yet developed enough to digest and assimilate starchy foods."

For the first year, milk from a healthy mother is usually sufficient food for a child. At the age of a year, the child may start taking fresh fruit and the juice of vegetables, greens, and sprouts. The child knows its body's needs better than the parent knows them and should be given the natural food he/she likes best. If the food is rejected or the child shows signs of fever, diarrhea, nausea, skin erruption, especially after the meal, you can be sure that the food caused it. Discover which of the food's eaten within the last twenty-four hours was the causitive factor and eliminate it from the diet.
While traveling, it is very important that no sudden change in diet takes place. It can result in severe diarrhea. If diarrhea occurs, stop the intake of all food. Dilute citrus juice and vegetable soup broth may be fed until the child's condition improves. It is very important to give the child only fruit which is fully ripened and organic. If such fruit is unavailable, substitute indoor greens, weeds, sprouts, and grass juice. Eat local organic seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Don't give baby any nuts or seed. A baby born from detoxified parents has a highly permeable digestive tract (almost like a sieve). Undigested protein can enter the sytem, causing allergic reactions. Avoid all straches and fats. Protein should be taken in the form of amino acids from fruit, grass juice and delicate sprouts (mung, alfalfa, buckwheat, sunflower). When your child is old enough to chew foods thoroughly, he or she will thrive on the same live food diet which you eat and will be spared "childhood diseases", "colds", and trips to the dentist.
Give the child plenty of sunlight (midday sun rays are too strong except in winter), fresh air, energy boosting and massage of the body, especially the abdomen, and of course plenty of love. (Exposing the child to light from a 40 watt red bulb for thirty minutes, will help him/her to pass gas).
The nursing mother should be in an excellent health for her milk to provide a complete food for the baby. During lactation she must follow a very careful, nourishing diet, and refrain from ingesting any contaminants. This is not the time to institute a strenuous cleansing diet or fast.


*Natural Living (1560 Broadway, NYC) 1973.


RawMahdiyah
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"Cast down what is in your right hand. It will swallow up what they have wrought. Verily they have wrought only a sorcerer's stratagem; and a sorcerer does not succeed (no matter) from whatsoever (skilled group) he may come." (Quran-20:69)