Follow me on this thought while watching this video. I think you will agree with me that this child has his mother’s outlook on the world…. and the world looks back in awe!

Smile and the world smiles back… what inspiration! I love how this mother from the beginning spoke to this child of what he COULD do and not what he was lacking. I love that she allows him to go into the world and not feel like she has to protect him from getting hurt. This is a brave woman and I honor her. It is not easy to see our babies hurting, we naturally want to protect them. Sometimes we protect them by allowing them to fly, like the eagle has to push the baby out of the nest and watch them develop their wings on the way down, so are we called to let our children be the biggest, strongest and best they can be. It is not always easy, but it what we mothers are born to do!

My heart and my love go out to all you mother warriors out there!
Christine Hiebel

I Appreciate YOU!

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Passion Parents! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, because it is all about giving thanks. It is not about presents or candy. Thanksgiving holiday, more families are likely to get together. It is the most traveled time of the year. How beautiful is that! People getting together to give thanks for all they have.

I want to express my appreciation for all the people who have supported Passion Parent over the past two years. I especially thank all the friends I have met along the way who encouraged me to rebuild the site after all the past two years content was lost. Thank you Till Shilling (Tappy Bear) for helping me to see the opportunity where one could have turned and only seen loss.

To my readers, I want to let you know that I REALLY do appreciate you. I have purchased the rights to distribute the magazine, Family Matters (enter code 158 to get it for free from me- my banner should be on the left side). Allow me to explain why I chose to pay every month to bring you this magazine….

Family Matters was a paid yearly subscription. It was printed and mailed to people like many magazines. Unfortunately (at the time…. another example of opportunity where some may have only seen loss), the magazine was not financially viable as a printed magazine.

It is now available in digital format through sponsors like Passion Parent and will reach thousands more families than it would have in the original distribution model. What a beautiful example of how we can learn to step back and take a breathe when something happens we think is “bad luck” or “not in our favor”. The world is ALWAYS in our favor if we allow the goodness to come through.

My friend, Till, likes to say, “Now, I wonder what the heck THIS is good for.” Anthony Robbins says that your ego will always give you an answer… so just start asking yourself better questions. I have found this to be true in my life, the less I beat myself up (and we as parents often are pretty good at this… especially you mothers out there), the faster I tend to recover from the challenge at hand. As you gain these skills, you will be showing your children how to handle challenges in a constructive manner. We are the greatest teachers our children have… and they can be your greatest teachers as well! Observe the young children and how they move through frustration and challenges so easily and quickly.

I also want to share with you a tool I used when I was in a funk years ago. I took a small notebook, nothing fancy, and would write five things I was grateful for every day. I wrote in it right before I went to bed. Within 30 days I felt a profound difference in my outlook on things. I found that I was focusing on the things I had to be grateful for instead of what was going “wrong” in my life. I found those things that were going “wrong” often turned out better for me in the end (like getting a call from our renters while I was still in the hospital right after giving birth to McKenna. They informed us they were moving across the street at the end of the month. Turns out, their cats were ruining our house… turned out to be a blessing for us they moved and a disaster for the neighbors).

Thank you for sharing your stories, your lives and your love here. You would be amazed how many times I hear that one of YOUR comments helped another reader. In this age, many feel so isolated, when in fact we are more connected then we have ever been through the internet, phones and planes. Take the time to connect here and share… your story or bit of advice may help someone in another part of the world. We never know how the smallest of our actions can affect someone so dramatically… make your mark a positive one!

Please take a few minutes and write five things (or more) you are grateful for…

Many Blessings!
Christine Hiebel

P.S. For you Black Friday shoppers… take a look at the Bouncers Bounce House special for Passion Parents… you may opt to stay home and order the Little Einstein bounce house, lemonade stand or Adirondack chair instead!

Wouldn’t you know, the half tailed lizard McKenna named Hammy sunning himself on the deck.  She caught him and kept him for another day and a half.  Then it was time to let him go again.  She was getting attached to this little lizard, this time she really did not want to let him go!

The next day, McKenna went to the deck to find Hammy…. there he was, sitting in the tub she had kept him in!  Yep, that silly lizard crawled back into the tub (the lid was off).  Seems Hammy the lizard was fond of McKenna as well!

Not all children (or adults) are so fond of crawly things.  The little boys in the neighborhood are not as brave and it can be uncomfortable to have a girl that holds the bugs and animals for them.

This sweet story by Charlotte Kamman is a great way to help your child know it is OK to have a little fear of bugs… not all bugs should be held or played with.

Tappy and the Beetles
by Charlotte Kamman

“Tappy, Jake!!” Mom stood on the porch and called.

Finally the so long awaited trip was about to begin. Tappy had barely been able to sleep the night before. The event was going to be really great. He would be together with the family of his uncle and they were all going to spend a few days at a lake in the Mountains.

Tappy and his cousin Jake heard her voice in the distance. They were playing on the shore of the big lake, skipping stones on the water.

They heard a call, and stopped to listen closely. When they heard it was Tappy’s Mom, they started running, as both were thinking the same thing, ‘She might have an ice cream for them!’

Once they took the turn, in front of the cabin, they saw that it was not as they had imagined. Although disapointed, what Mom held in her hands spiked their curiosity. “Look what I found!” Mom said, as she held up a green long bag.

“What is it, Mom?” Tappy asked, not knowing what to expect.

“It’s a tent!” Jake shouted. “A tent! WOW! Can we go camping? Oh please, please?”” Tappy’s Mom smiled at them. “Yes, you can, that is what I was going to ask you. Do you want to camp in the garden tonight?“”

Jake couldn’t stop jumping up and down, and Tappy was all excited too. This was better than ice cream. Wow, camping, that would be really fun!

After the tent was set up with a little bit of help from Tappy’s Dad and Uncle, they went off to the lake again to go swimming. There was still a lot of time before the night, and they decided to spend this time doing what they loved most; swimming.

Later on that afternoon, Tappy and Jake laid in front of their little tent as they were drying up in the sun. Suddenly, Jake jumped up and caught something in his hands. He put it in an empty jar he had brought, and he came jolting back to Tappy to show what he had: A beautiful coloured, huge shiny beetle. Tappy tried not to scream, he bit his lip and said in a small voice: “Eh, Nice”.

Jake looked at him. He asked “You’re not afraid, are you?” “Nah.” Tappy mumbled, as he carefully got up and started backing away. Jake noticed it and put the beetle very close to Tappy’s face.

Tappy jumped back and while running towards the house, he called over his shoulder. “I just have to go to the bathroom, I’ll be right back!”!”

As Tappy sat quietly in a corner near the toilet, he sighed. Jake had done it again, and he had been a wimpy bear again…

He tasted salty tears on his upper lip. He was not going to cry, not now. Jake was probably coming to find

Tappy and Beetles

him, together with the beetle… He shouldn’t think of Jake galloping up to him now, with some giant bug in his hands. He was shivering at the thought of it. He thought of the giant bugs Jake was surely now catching to tease him…

Suddenly a different thought came to his mind. How could it be that he, Tappy, was so scared of beetles, while Jake adored them?

Tappy thought of the song Mom would sing for him when he was afraid of something. It went like this:

Tap along with Tappy
Tap your troubles away
Tap along with Tappy
Tap in the good today…

Tap Tap Tap Tap, Tap Tap Tap….

As he was humming the Tappy song, he started to feel a bit better. He got up on his feet, and while he tapped his tapping buttons, he invented a little dance.

He envisioned the Bugs, and tried to remember what about them made him feel so scared. So, he began his tapping routine.

“Even though I am scared of Jakes bug, I am a good Tappy.”
“Even though I am not sure about bugs, they scare me, I am a good Tappy.!”
“Even though I am a scared, I am a good Tappy.“

And, he began Tapping repeating:

“This fear of Bugs,.. This fear of Bugs,..“

When he was finished, he saw the bugs a little differently, not as scarey anymore. So he kept on humming his song.

Tap along with Tappy
Tap in the good today.

He was actually having real fun as Jake arrived; surely with a jar with a bug in it.

Tappy looked at the jar, and saw that Jake had caught another beetle. But now he was not terribly scared! Not at all! He actually took time to see how pretty the beetle was!

He asked Jake if he could hold the jar for a bit. Jake looked puzzled, but gave him the jar. Tappy looked at the beetle, and said:

“He is beautiful, Jake! Shall we go out and catch some more beetles together?“

Jake thumped Tappy on his arm with a big smile on his face, because in the end, playing with Tappy is much more fun than teasing him!

So, they ran out and started catching lightning bugs to have some light in the tent that night.

What a fun night this would be.

Click here if you would like to print the coloring page and story.

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Tappy comforting McKenna

My daughter has tapped into the mothership and started the fear of monsters and ghosts.  Where do parents turn when dealing with these fears?  I have turned to using a tool called tapping, Meridian Tapping or EFT.  For ease with my daughter, I purchased a stuffed animal called Tappy Bear.  He has buttons strategically placed at the meridian tapping points.  Working with Tappy helps release the energy of the beliefs, thoughts and emotions of things that affects us~ such as fear of the dark and monsters!

I have included this sweet story written for Till and Tappy by Dr. Patricia Carrington, Phd.  I hope you enjoy it!

The Ghost in Tappy’s Closet

by Dr. Patricia Carrington

One night, in the middle of the night, TappyBear was sound asleep and all warm and comfy in his bed, when he was awakened by the sound of thunder.  He hadn’t expected a storm and so he felt a little scared.

Then he heard a strange sort of groaning noise.  It seemed to come from his closet.

Tappy now felt more scared.  What was this?  Maybe a ghost was hiding in his closet!

Then his scary thoughts made him even more scared.  Suppose the ghost would come out of the closet!

Then he became even more scared when he thought,  ”Suppose the ghost will come after me?”

Thoughts can make you really scared.  Tappy was really scared.

To make himself feel better he decided right then and there to tap on his special magic tapping spots and tap the scared feelings away.  He knew he would be able to take care of any problem if he just wasn’t so scared.

So, Tappy began to tap on his special tapping spots.  At each tapping spot he said out loud, “Even though I’m scared, I’m a great bear and I can handle this!” – He said this same thing at each tapping spot, and soon he began to feel better ––  and better —- and better.

Pretty soon Tappy felt so much better from doing all that tapping that he got out of bed, switched on the light, and went over to his closet and OPENED it to see what was in there.  And guess what?  All that was in that closet was his own clothes and a few games on the self.  THERE WAS NO GHOST AT ALL!

But then Tappy heard that groaning noise again.  This time though he was so calm that he realized the noise was coming from his window.  He decided to walk over to the window and see what was going on, the tapping had helped him so much that he wasn’t a bit scared anymore.  “I’ll handle it” he said to himself.

And that’s what Tappy did.  He went over to the window and he listened to the sound and he looked out the window.  Even though it was night, the light from his room shone out into the darkness and now he could see a tree branch outdoors being blown by the wind.  It was being blown so it brushed right against his window, and when it scraped on the glass of the window it was making a noise that sounded like a squeaky groaning!

A tree branch!  It hadn’t been a ghost at all!  He had only thought it was a ghost because he had felt scared in the first place when he was wakened up by the thunder.  Now that he wasn’t scared anymore, he realized what the noise was and felt fine.  The tapping had come to his rescue!

Tappy went back and crawled into bed and said to himself. “It’s only a tree branch scraping on my window.  I’ll just go to sleep.”  And that’s what he did.

Would you like to color-in the pictures for this story?

Download them here.

The coloring pages and story are in a .pdf file that requires ADOBE READER be installed on your computer to read it. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed, visit www.adobe.com to download it now.Once you have opened the e-book in Adobe Reader, save it to your computer. Go to FILE, click on SAVE, then CHOOSE Desktop. If you want it to work, MAKE SURE TO SAVE IT! If you have any problems with this please email us at:  till.schilling@tappybear.com

How cool is it to gift your child with tools that will help them cope with situations, be it the monster or ghost at night, bully on the play ground or death in the family.  Tapping is one of those tools your child can learn with small stuff (which by the way, is not small to them).  Start in a fun, loving, playful way and watch tapping become a coping tool they can use for the big stuff!  Want to learn more about Tapping and Tappy Bear?  Click here to visit Tappy!

Have any experiences with tapping or other modalities?  We would love to hear from you.  You never know when your story will help someone else that is searching for help in the exact same thing… and your story made all the difference.  Be the difference in someone’s life- share YOUR story!

Here’s to being a Passion Parent!

Christine Hiebel

So, after a little tapping on “what the heck is this good for?”  “What lesson or opportunity is to be gained here?”, I was able to see the chance to redesign PassionParent.  I hope you are as excited about this as I am!

For those of you who came her during Passion Parent’s down time, thank you for your patience.  For those of you that came back looking for some information (there was almost two year’s of information gathered here), I will miss it as much as you, but now we have the opportunity to create more!

Anyone who would like to become a contributing author, please send your blog post to Christine@PassionParent.com for review!  I love contributing authors!  Any thoughts or inspirations on what you would like to see here is also welcome!

Here’s to being a Passion Parent!

Christine Hiebel