The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Problems

It is a big thing that a small church made a sensory classroom. Please hear the story and glean good ideas for your situation.

Kimberly MacArthur tells us how her small Baptist Church very successfully established a sensory classroom for some special needs children in their community.

Mrs. MacArthur tells us how they did this, step by step. She had some resources because she is a professional educator, but she emphasizes that she is not an expert in Special Education. Now, you have all the steps.

First, though, hear the story. She starts with how she came to the church and how the conversation began. In Episode 1, she conveys most of what they put in the room.

Here is her google doc shopping list. Please use this as a starting point, not as a hard and fast rule.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QSaHV2wobWB50RAX98HDCvs2mikcTWWTREsA3oLm21Q/edit?gid=1700078103#gid=1700078103

More tips today, this time on how to choose a church nursery. Very much the same as choosing a childcare placement.

Go in to the classroom and look around. Are there enough toys? Space? lesson plans? competent adults? Emergency plans?

More hair raising stories.

For moms and dads.

For pastors too.

And PS, besides background checks, you also want to have First Aid Training.

Great tip: have extra plans and extra supplies for "just in case."

Today, let's consider again inculcating respect between the sexes. Obviously, this is a great need today.

Besides having a great deal to do with success in life, since marriage and human relations are a foundation of that,

respect between the sexes also contributes to learning. When youth, let alone children, are distracted by sex, learning goes down. When they are traumatized by bad relations with other humans, learning can go to zilch. Please consider.

Btw, sex is biological, gender is social relations. Please use English correctly and do not participate in false language. People twist language either because they are ignorant or because they intend to hoodwink you. Do not violate your conscience by submitting to this sort of hoodwinking.

Today I will give you tips on how to choose childcare. I start with a hair-raising story from when I was 16 and started working in a nursery. The point was that parents never walked through the school to see what was happening. Do that.

Today, there are regulations and a website with any violations. Check that. Check their policies on vaccines and accidents. Then go see it. Look for space, toys, books, cleanliness.

Check out my stories. They will give you some clue.

Think about whether you need a licensed center or a family day home. Think about how old your child should be before being entered. Think about how few hours you can keep him or her there. Do NOT BE FOOLED THAT CHILDCARE IS NECESSARILY BETTER THAN HOME.

Don't be fooled by cute doors and overly-nice directors. Talk to the teachers.

Yes, God wants to heal us. Including our children. Including that which has to do with learning and academics.

Isaiah 53 talks about healing. Matthew 8:16 talks about Jesus healing. It is cleer Jesus cared about children, not just adults. And then Peter, direct disciple and respected apostle also talks about healing in 2Pet 2:24.

Don't doubt. Just go after it. The biggest problem for healing of children is that so few adults think to ask about it.

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Okay, yes, academic success is not the highest goal ever. That is not what life is about. But it is helpful. And no point denying that. And God cares.

Every child in our society should be able to learn, to read, to calculate. It is harder than ever. It is harder than ever to find good instruction. And children have more problems than ever. Well, God cares.

God IS interested in Academic success. Here is a little talk about that.

After that, I encourage you to have a chat with God about it. God has a lot of good ideas. God wants to talk with you. The trick is to get quiet, ask 1 simple question at a time and then listen. Then write down what you hear -- without editing. If not clear, then get help either from someone like a pastor you trust or a God talks coach. (I now have a Facebook page on this: see God Talks by Sharon Sarles.)

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Can I legally homeschool in my state? The people who can help you in any state is the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.

Several years ago a representative attorney and founder of HSLDA called into the radio studio and told how he and others started HSLDA precisely because they realized that they needed to homeschool their children because of "learning disabilities." These lawyers wanted good education for their children. They realized they could not get it from the government schools. They decided that homeschooling was the best route for them.Then they realized that their legal expertise was needed elsewhere on this very topic.

HSLDA.org

Hard to believe that the right to privately education your own children is not an articulated right - everywhere. Certainly, here in the United States, where no less than James Madison wrote that we must not stretch "general welfare" to include education or else tryanny would reign.

News : The government school may vaccinate your child, diagnose your family -- and then what? Just like the worst days of the Soviet Union.

https://x.com/ChildrensHD/status/2100616268516581432

Labeling is a scientifically proven and powerful dynamic. Children live down to the labels that adults around given them. Teachers may even know this. However, schools, along with psychological professionals are the worst offenders. Who ever said that your child could not learn? But they did say the child was learning disabled. And studies in the 1990s showed that most teachers thought LD meant mentally retarded. We are not permitted to say MR today. But we say worse things. And that matters.

One might get called down for saying "Indian" in some historical context when actually meaning "Native American." Last night, the youngster offering a presentation on The Constitution couldn't read it verbatim because it said "Indian" meaning "Native American." Good grief. But we say people are LD, developmentally delayed, and addicted, and schizophrenic, and convicts. You get the picture. No behavior is wrong, but everyone is stuck in a category. Let's stop this. Let's speak truthfully!

So, a child might be having trouble with learning, but they are not disabled. We might request accommodations. Or better, we might remediate. Or better, we might devise some innovative strategy to teach a child who needs a different approach.

Well, you know I would like to re-found education. For now, let's understand labeling.

Dani Johnson, multi-level marketing expert, talked with us back in 2009 about grooming children for success. Wow! I had no idea how that work "grooming" would play years later. However, parenting is still pretty much the same.

Dani, and her husband Hans, have trained many many sales people in their organization. One way they do that is by giving them "scripts" or what I call "verbatims" -- to tell people what to say. That was my favorite part of the book. She tells us as parents how to say things to our children in ways they will listen.

For instance, Dani wanted her middle school aged son to wash the dishwasher. Of course, he is not very enthusiastic about that. She asks if he doesn't want to be a coach when he grows up. Yes. Then doesn't he want his team to practice? Yes. Well, then doesn't he want to practice being an adult in the family? "Okay, mom, I will be glad to to that." Looks like she has given him something to say, too. My guess is "Yes, Mom, I will be glad to do that" was once a script too. Good going. Groomed for success in dealing with his parents.

And that guy is now probably a successful guy in the workforce. Maybe a highly valued coach. He didn't get kicked out or pushed down for lipping off to his boss or head coach. Groomed for success. Maybe even groomed for being a successful father, eh?

Sort of generational thinking. Good, good.

Grooming the Next Generation for Success

https://www.danijohnson.com/

Thanks, Dani!

She Told Us in 2009

Dani Johnson, marketing expert, told us about how to beat pornography for children back in 2009. Porn for kids? Yuk! We listened, but we didn't understand how serious it was. She said marketers were in board rooms at that time figuring out how to addict children to pornography, because the male market was already maxed out. This was a beginning of the sad state we are in now. It will help show how to proceed.

Today, we are in the Situation of Extended Battle

Today, we have come through a tsunami of sex trafficking, conducted by or at least obviously abetted by, our government. Hundreds of thousands of children are being rescued, with many times that more to go. The population is rising up against a government education system that is demanding children read porn. Then those systems resist both law and community standards, and tell us "trust the experts." So pornography (what would be defined as pornography and a felony to offer minors, not just sex education, is in the curricula and school libraries across the country. Why? How could that be?

The horrible thought is that human sex trafficking is the most remunerative trade on the planet.

May it not be.

May the forces of Light, Love, and Truth, of the True God and of his Christ/Messiah rise up and defeat the forces of darkness, evil, and violence.

Dani Johnson, Mother of 5, Gives Us Solid, Time Tested First Steps

Dani illumines the first of the path. Let's teach and protect our children. Then, let's engage intelligently and diligently in governance.

Dani Johnson's Grooming the Next Generation for Success

Dani Johnson's Grooming the Next... workbookhttps://www.amazon.com/Grooming-Next-Generation-Success-2nd/dp/B00DCE9SVS/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NLIRQPVZ81XY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2muoj_vJ7dm8qTcbW7XWoMqegs0OxUb01tz4md-1A8bWdaDecwsfLZ3IxdfeNsz5wldOBMonAYtfYq3pMrrgHQ.tOtJhP2kp2a4MWmCcHJsm_iGIgOQuUjJOZlqWbVctqQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=dani+johnson+grooming&qid=1789051456&sprefix=dani+johnson+groomin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-3

The Government is Not a Village, by Sharon Sarles

Craig Sawyer rescues children