This excerpt is a chapter taken from Almine's forthcoming book How to Raise an Exceptional Child. These homeopathic remedies are not meant to take the place of your physician nor are they intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

If you teach your child that the world around him or her can be supportive and healing, you raise a selfreliant child. Children from six years to adulthood will benefit from the following books: The Vision and Grandfather, both by Tom Brown. You can also read them to younger children. These books teach about the aliveness of all things and how we can feel supported by cooperating with nature. We can stock our homes with many natural remedies that abound in our physical environment. Some of them are described below.