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<blockquote data-quote="TerryJ2" data-source="post: 180936" data-attributes="member: 3419"><p>Tina,</p><p> </p><p>as one who has been told I have a "gift," I have a different perspective.</p><p> </p><p>I was raised in a dysfuntional home. I learned to keep my antennae raised at all times. I could walk in a rm, meet someone for the 1st time, and if the hair on my arms stood up and my stomach went in a knot, I would know to run, not walk for the door.</p><p> </p><p>ESP? Nope. Just a person who reminded me of someone else. A bad someone else. 99% of the time, I was right.</p><p> </p><p>I am not saying there is anything wrong with-your homelife. Just that it is quite common for ACOAs to have ESP, when in fact, it is just a heightened sense of surroundings created by necessity, for self preservation.</p><p> </p><p>Some of this is genetic, too. (I'll address that in a min.)</p><p> </p><p>Also, when your difficult child is older, I would recommend <em>The Gift of Fear</em>, (Amazon.com) especially for kids who want to travel alone.</p><p> </p><p>If used properly, this "gift" is truly a gift. It saves a lot of time. Why buy a book on Myers-Briggs or eneagrams and attend numerous seminars to hire an employee, when you can just go with-your gut?</p><p> </p><p>If encouraged by superstitious friends/and/or relatives, this "gift" can be a curse, wasting a lot of time and energy and taking a perfectly normal human being (albeit one with-impulse control issues) and making them into a nonfunctioning neurotic.</p><p> </p><p>I find that my antennae are raised when I have caffiene, when I'm sleep-deprived, or when I have PMS. I learn a lot more about people and situations, but I also take them to heart waaaaay too much. That's the bad part about being an "empath."</p><p> </p><p>I would encourage you to humor your difficult child in the sense that if he sees things, you listen long enough to determine whether it's something you can explain logically or something that may disturb him, ie. somehting you can't explain but don't feel is bad enough to actually be a danger, either real or imagined.</p><p> </p><p>A TP roll unraveling all by itself is very common, for example. I had it happen just last wk. After studying the roll for a few secs, I realized that the cardboard holder was slightly warped, creating an imbalance, so the roll would continue to be weighted toward one side, forcing it to turn over repeatedly until all the tissue was gone.</p><p> </p><p>Teach your child that reason is the rule of the day.</p><p> </p><p>But to be sensitive to your surrroundings can be useful, and sometimes lifesaving. Methinks you have an artist, poet or musician on your hands ...</p><p> </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":redface:" title="redface :redface:" data-shortname=":redface:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryJ2, post: 180936, member: 3419"] Tina, as one who has been told I have a "gift," I have a different perspective. I was raised in a dysfuntional home. I learned to keep my antennae raised at all times. I could walk in a rm, meet someone for the 1st time, and if the hair on my arms stood up and my stomach went in a knot, I would know to run, not walk for the door. ESP? Nope. Just a person who reminded me of someone else. A bad someone else. 99% of the time, I was right. I am not saying there is anything wrong with-your homelife. Just that it is quite common for ACOAs to have ESP, when in fact, it is just a heightened sense of surroundings created by necessity, for self preservation. Some of this is genetic, too. (I'll address that in a min.) Also, when your difficult child is older, I would recommend [I]The Gift of Fear[/I], (Amazon.com) especially for kids who want to travel alone. If used properly, this "gift" is truly a gift. It saves a lot of time. Why buy a book on Myers-Briggs or eneagrams and attend numerous seminars to hire an employee, when you can just go with-your gut? If encouraged by superstitious friends/and/or relatives, this "gift" can be a curse, wasting a lot of time and energy and taking a perfectly normal human being (albeit one with-impulse control issues) and making them into a nonfunctioning neurotic. I find that my antennae are raised when I have caffiene, when I'm sleep-deprived, or when I have PMS. I learn a lot more about people and situations, but I also take them to heart waaaaay too much. That's the bad part about being an "empath." I would encourage you to humor your difficult child in the sense that if he sees things, you listen long enough to determine whether it's something you can explain logically or something that may disturb him, ie. somehting you can't explain but don't feel is bad enough to actually be a danger, either real or imagined. A TP roll unraveling all by itself is very common, for example. I had it happen just last wk. After studying the roll for a few secs, I realized that the cardboard holder was slightly warped, creating an imbalance, so the roll would continue to be weighted toward one side, forcing it to turn over repeatedly until all the tissue was gone. Teach your child that reason is the rule of the day. But to be sensitive to your surrroundings can be useful, and sometimes lifesaving. Methinks you have an artist, poet or musician on your hands ... :blushing::winking: [/QUOTE]
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