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What is rhinotillexomaniac anyway? Actually it’s a more complicated scientific name for nose-picking.

• rhino= nose
• tillexis= habit of picking at something
• maniac= obsession with something
  

Have you ever caught someone nose-picking? Well, if you haven’t, maybe everybody around you do it in secret. Do you know that there are some doing it openly without embarrassment?

Although taboo in some cultures, there are doctors who see it as beneficial. The finger is capable of reaching parts of the nose that a handkerchief or tissue is unable to, thus keeping the nose cleaner.

However, it might cause nasal infections and nosebleeds. Now, have you ever caught your kids nose-picking? Or even doing mucophagy–picking a nose and eating it? The last one is even worse ’cause eating the bacteria-rich dried mucus offers a boost to the immune system, and is analogous to immunization.

Then, how to stop them from doing it?

• Keep their fingers busy
• If your kids are in a certain age where you can discuss stuff with them, explain why you prefer that they don’t do it
• If they can’t stop it and you’ve done your best to help them and they don’t seem to be able to do so, check with a psychologist ’cause it can be related to their psychological condition.

1.    Do not ask them if they are homesick
They do miss home and they’d rather not be reminded of that
 

2.    Write or call (even if they don’t)
Once in a while a letter or an e-mail or a phone call does no harm, but if too many, it might annoy them
 

3.    Ask questions (but not too many)
It’s ok if you ask them how they get along with new friends, how the studying, but don’t spoil yourself by asking them a more private questions, they’re not kids anymore, Moms, Dads…
 

4.    Trust them
Let them learn to be responsible of themselves and your only duty now is to trust them.
 

5.    Expect change
It’s normal. Don’t be too surprised if once they go home for holiday, you see some changes. Of course they do, they’re having a new life…
 

My husband and I always try to make decisions together. Although for certain cases, I let him make the final one, and for some other cases, I make the final one. It depends on the case.

However, what’s needed most is discussion. The discussing process is more important than the decission. It’s the learning process of growing up together as couple.

The maturity of relationship seems to give a huge impact on deciding what’s best for the whole family. During the first year of marriage, couples usually end up debating instead of discussing. But further more, as the years go by, understanding is already well constructed.

“For us, marriage is more a finesse game than a power game. It requires ‘the suggester’ and ‘the discusser’ as much as it does ‘the decider.” [nytimes.com]

So, it doesn’t matter who makes the decision. What matters is how the decision can make the whole family happy.

Are you an adoptive parent? Have you ever had some kinds of depression after having the kid in your home?

Don’t be sad and ashamed to admit it. It’s normal.

Don’t you know that some of the non-adoptive parents also get the blues, called a post-partum depression?

Also, there are other adoptive parents who experience the same thing [nytimes.com]. You’re not the only one. All you need is more understanding of what’s going on then get all the help you need.

The best way to get help is by expressing what you feel to others or to experts. Let it all out, maybe someone with another perception can lead you to a better feeling.

All parents should unite and step together, hand in hand, along the parenting paths. Adoptive or not, we should never be lack of love to grant to our children. Love is the best thing they can get from us, their parents.

Zoey, the cat, mom to 3 kittens, let a puppy line up for her milk.

A mother’s love can be beyond species.

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