The Best Essential Oils For Hyper And Moody Kids

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Anyone who has children knows that kids are an absolute blessing. However, some kids suffer from hyperactivity and mood swings – conditions that can turn a happy home into a daily grind. If you take your child to the doctor to ask for advice, they may prescribe them mainstream medications to “calm them down.”

There is a better way, though – essential oils.

Essential Oils for Babies and Toddlers

Never use essential oils on babies younger than three months of age. There are only four essential oils that are deemed to be safe for babies and toddlers:

• Lavender essential oil ─ a sleep aid; anti-anxiety; calming; soothes rashes


• Roman chamomile essential oil ─ soothes the nerves; good for soothing rashes


• Neroli essential oil ─ a sleep aid; calms


• Rose otto essential oil ─ calming; moisturizing

After an infant has reached the three-month point, it is safe to use only one drop of essential oil diluted in four teaspoons of a carrier oil, such as coconut oil, as a massage blend. Be sure to perform a patch test first, as described below. You also can use a room diffuser containing one drop of your chosen essential oil, dropped in purified water.

Essential Oils for 2- to 10-Year-Olds

For a massage blend, it is safe to use up to four drops of essential oils. Never use more than four drops of essential oil per four teaspoons of carrier oil for a blend. Use your judgment here, as it might be better to only use two drops for a two-year-old and up to four drops for a 10-year-old. Also, be sure to perform a patch test, as described below.

For aromatherapy, use up to four drops in a room diffuser, dropped into purified water. Remember that heavily scented oils tend not to appeal to children. Here is a list of good essential oils to use for children ages two to 10:

• Roman chamomile essential oil ─ soothes the nerves; soothes rashes and skin irritations


• Lavender essential oil ─ a sleep aid; anti-anxiety; calming; soothes rashes and insect bites


• Lemon-scented eucalyptus essential oil ─ relieves coughs, congestion and colds


• Lemon essential oil ─ uplifting; can unblock a clogged nose


• Sweet orange essential oil ─ uplifting; calms emotional stress


• Spearmint essential oil ─ relieves tummy aches and indigestion


• Neroli essential oil ─ a sleep aid; calms fretfulness


• Rose otto essential oil ─ soothing, soothes skin irritations

Safety First: Perform a Skin Patch Test

Perform a patch test on a small area of your child’s skin before applying an essential oil massage blend to a larger area of the body. This way, you will know if the oils are safe to use on your child.

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To do this, apply a small amount of the blend on the inside of your child’s arm. Cover the area with a bandage and leave it overnight. Remove the bandage in the morning, and if the skin looks healthy, your child should not have an adverse effect to using the particular oil blend.

Safety in the Sun

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It is important to realize that some essential oils are phototoxic. This is primarily true with the citrus based oils, such as sweet orange and lemon essential oils. Don’t use these oils on your children in massage blends if they will be heading outdoors, as they can lead to a sunburn.

If you are not sure about the safety precautions of each oil you use, be sure to do some research before using them on your children and even yourself.

Ways to Use Essential Oils for Hyper or Moody Children, Ages 2 -10

1. Massage blends

Proportion the drops of oils to your child’s age, 2-4 drops for children two to 10 years old. Do a patch test first.

Blend One: Calming Blend

• 2 drops lavender essential oil


• 2 drops Roman chamomile essential oil


• 4 tsp carrier oil, such as coconut oil

Blend Two: Restore the Mood

• 1 drop lemon essential oil


• 1 drop sweet orange essential oil


• 1 drop Roman chamomile essential oil


• 4 tsp carrier oil, such as coconut oil

2. Diffuser blends

You can discover different diffuser scents by combining various essential oils. Here are a couple of recipes to get you started:

Blend One: Calming/Sleep Blend:

• 2 drops lavender essential oil


• 2 drops neroli essential oil


• Drop into a diffuser full of purified water

Blend Two: Mood Buster Blend:

• 1 drop lemon essential oil


• 1 drop sweet orange essential oil


• 1 drop spearmint or peppermint essential oil


• 1 drop rose otto essential oil


• Drop into a diffuser full of purified water

3. Room and linin sprays

Many parents have found it helpful to blend a calming spray which can be misted on sheets, blankets and curtains, or just be sprayed into the air. When using an essential oil linen spray, the scent will last the entire night, promoting a good night’s sleep.

Lavender Linin Spray for calmness or sleep:

• 2 tbsp witch hazel


• 8-10 drops lavender essential oil


• 6 tbsp purified water


• Small spray bottle


• Shake well before each use

Sweet Orange Linin Spray for Bettering the Mood:

• 2 tbsp witch hazel


• 5 drops sweet orange essential oil


• 3 drops spearmint or peppermint essential oil


• 2 drops lemon essential oil


• 6 tbsp purified water


• Small spray bottle


• Shake well before each use


• If you don’t like the minty aroma, leave out the mint oils

Final Thoughts

One of the best things about essential oils is their ease of use and accessibility. You can go out today, buy some oils, and begin using them right away. But buy your oils from a reputable source, ensuring they are 100 percent pure. Also, try different variations of these oils to find the perfect scents for your children.

*This article is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or cure any particular health condition. Please first consult with a qualified health professional.

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The Unpoisoning: Two Proposals To Rescue The US Educational System And Federal Workforce From Liberal Indoctrination

If ever one needed better evidence of failed liberal ideology, look no further than the complete mental breakdown and kneejerk arrogance programmed into a nation of tantruming pseudo-intellectual children of all ages. I"ve never seen so many overly-dramatic sore losers who can"t manage to look inward and move on with their lives.

In light of the fact that so much of America is woefully unequipped with facts, critical thinking skills, or the ability to absorb divergent opinions without having an existential crisis, it"s time to address perhaps the most important swamp of all; the hyper-liberal US educational system and the people responsible for influencing the future of our nation.

Submitted for consideration by an attorney and educator who wishes to remain anonymous [emphasis mine]

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I’d like to submit two proposals concerning what President Trump could do to “drain the swamp.”  The first proposal concerns the flagrant political discrimination that plagues almost all of academia, both k-12 and college level. Virtually all of these institutions have become the sole haunt of left wing ideologues.  Everyone knows this, although some liberals may try to deny it.  The result has rendered most of our colleges and grade schools veritable liberal ghettos where conservatives need not apply and are certainly not welcome if they try.

The proposed solution is to give these institutions one year to balance their teaching staff so that fully half of them are registered Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, or otherwise conservative.  Once that year had elapsed, President Trump could decree by Executive Order that funding for any educational institution receiving federal funds would be cut by a percentage equal to the disparity between liberals and conservatives in their teaching staff.  For example, if only 5% of their teaching staff were Republican or Conservative after a year’s recruitment then the institution would receive only 10% of its prior federal funding. Institutions that raised their Republican representation to 40% would receive up to 80% of their prior federal funding.  This approach would motivate biased liberal institutions to at least abate their political discrimination, and American taxpayers wouldn’t continue to pay for left wing bigotry poisoning the minds of our children.

In America today, Christian bakers can be forced out of business for refusing to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, but nobody blinks an eye when Spike Lee announces he’s firing a singer simply because she sang at Trump’s inauguration.  This type of selective discrimination, rampant in academia, is as wrong as any arising from race, religion or sexual preference.  The First Amendment rights of speech and association are not a right to discriminate, however the Left continues to do so based purely on political persuasions they disagree with.

By signing an Executive Order defunding politically discriminatory educational institutions, President Trump could at least begin to end this problem.

I’m sure you can anticipate my second proposal.  That is, again by Executive Order, require that two-thirds of all federal employee hires have to be ideologically conservative until similar balance is achieved.  As with the prior proposal, no new laws have to be introduced through Congress, this is something President Trump could do on his own through Executive Order to begin to heal the rampant discrimination that is also demonstrably present in the federal workforce.

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