The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Problems

I am seeing this question over and over again on xy. OH! This tears at my heartstrings! I try to respond as helpfully as I can. I just am not on xy very much. Clearly, these mums are trying to do their best. They don't even know the right questions. Okay, so maybe that is just the quick way of saying it. Oh, maybe.

Okay, here is the deal. You start teaching your child as soon as the child is. When you start introducing academic stuff like letters is what they probably mean. The answer to that is about four, when the child is asking for it!

Oh gosh, I have a whole series on how to teach reading. So very very important. I have a book review on Alex Newman's *Crimes of the Educators.*  Even if you don't agree 100%  with Mr. Newman's thesis, look, you have got to admit, he is onto a problem.  Sight reading doesn't work. Never has.

Most curricula are 2D paper. (This is also wrongly assumed because we are brainwashed about what school is supposed to be, but anyway...)   So, it doesn't teach reading. You can't just shove paces at a kid and expect the kid to do well in reading. But between "read to you kid" and "send them to school" not much has been done on helping students read, or parent know how to teach reading.

Check out my "When The Road to Reading Gets Rocky" series in the store here, and just prevent problems. (And btw, have fun with learning; do not reproduce boring, deadly school.)

(Also look for more coming book reviews on Youtube.)

If you want individual coaching on how to homeschool, check out www.orgstrat.net and contact me. If  you want testing for school readiness and we can meet somewhere (mostly Texas), same. If you want to consider starting a school, see www.teachachildchangeanation.org

YOU WANT TO KNOW

I think our band of lionesses, interested in overcoming learning problems will be vitally interested in the case of Amos Miller, Amish farmer, who is being harassed, prosecuted and downright persecuted for being a good Amish farmer. After being harassed by the FDA fro decades, he prevailed. Now the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has gone beyond their legal mandate, lied to the court, seized property, dictated destruction of food that even their own tests showed was perfect. They would not let the food, some of which had already been purchased, even be sold to pigs. They even went so far as to ration food to the Miller family they that they themselves had grown.

Never over 20 years has anyone complained or gotten sick from Amos Miller's food. Not one. He runs a club, and not a retail operation; so everyone knows how he farms. Indeed,that is why they buy from him. In court last week, families testified under penalty of perjury that they and their children needed this food for their health, in on at least one case, their very life. One family said that their child was autistic and after depending upon the natural Amish food, he was no longer autistic. They testified that even in the interim during the seizure of the food during the investigation and court proceedings, their life and health was at risk. They pleaded with the judge to permit their children this food. The prosecution thought he had them, when he questioned who paid for their trip. He had. Defense attorney has already drastically reduced his fee; his firm is working on donations.

JUSTICE FALLEN IN THE STREETS

The Dept. of Agriculture of Pennsylvania had to lie to the court to be able to start this mess. They continue to lie.To the court. To the media. Who doesn't even check the other side, but merely publishes the lies of the government. Indeed, whent hey lie so egregiously on the stand, the Amish just couldn't process it. They are not used to lying in their society. However, the witnesses for the Dept of Ag lied so egregiously that the Prosecutor had to several times redirect.

It was kind of like this: "It is not like you want to be in charge of all food that everyone everywhere eats, is it? Oh yes!"

The First Amendment, guaranteeing the right to freedom of religion has been abridged. The fourth Amendment, protecting warrantless and unreasonable searches has been violated. A number of other rights in the 10 Amendment have been violated.  The State Constitution of PA has been violated. Due process has been violated.

The Court likes privacy (which is a violation.) The Bailiff, with guns, told even reporters that if they took notes in the courtroom, they would be imprisoned.

WHY NOT JUST GET A PERMIT?

Media passes on the idea that Amos Miller is just resisting getting a permit. This is a misunderstanding at best. You know how it goes: when a big bunch of lies is discredited, the most likely more reasonable sounding one is picked for a last stand.  In the first place, anything that is permitted is restricted by law; this is a dimunition of freedom. Secondly under PA law, a permit for selling raw milk includes the promise that sales of other raw milk products like raw milk cheese will not be sold. Thus, such a permit would drastically reduce the Miller business. However, given that Miller is not a retail operation, then permitting is not required. Further, labeling laws do not apply.

It is not clear how the case will be decided. According to Mr. Barnes, it appeared to him that the judge did care about the (only 4 he permitted) children;s health, the past behavior of the court is to side unthinkingly with government actors.  Not just these children's lives and learning ability will be at risk. This case will set a precedent against food freedom, religious freedom, and the well-being of our country in general. The FDA is watching.

Oral health is vital, and is a sign of other health. Ellie Phillips, DDS, has written a book on how to have oral health, and why your dentist may not help. Indeed, your dentist may not even be permitted to help your health. On the other hand, you can keep your mouth, your child's mouth healthy -- without prescriptions or injections.

I review Phillip's book, *Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye*.  I also add my own testimony of regrowing my gums.

Listen. LIke. Share.

Dr. Yvonne Lewis, from Dallas Texas, visited with us in 2009. What she said still holds.

It is a good time, right after Christmas and Valentine's and before Purim and Easter, to consider what we are eating and serving as snacks. Let's get smart.

Another rerun from back in 2009 when we were on the radio. Dr. Ensign, a chiropractor, interested in health, came to share best ideas for mothers.However, he didn't recommend using that sticky alchohol stuff. It will kill some germs, but the rest are given a nice home.

Lots of the best preschools in the land make handwashing a standard routine for their little ones. Indeed, in order to keep the handwashing going, the alphabet song is encouraged, in order time the washing. Try out such ideas to make handwashing fun and regular.

In introductory Biology in high school, we learned that germs don't grow on clean surfaces. That is why gyms would have towels to wipe off the equipment: so germs couldn't grow in the wet. However, now, go into any gymn, (if you can stand the soup of chemicals in the air) and check to see if the equipment is not sticky. Besides, no one is considering what chemicals they are regularly putting in their body through their skin.

Fear makes you do all sorts of silly things.  Instead, think.

Washing hands, with soap and water, prevents a lot of diseases. Studies show that children who wash their hands,and scrub their names miss less time from school, and (maybe therefore) have better grades. So much for what sociologists and epidemiologists can measure. The point is, being healthy is a good idea for being smart. And, okay fine, the argument for reverse causation could be made. Still, the point is: wash those hands.

This post seems to be timely, because Dr. Stella Immanuel has put out a new product to prepare for hemmorhagic fevers like ebola and Marburg. I saw in another social media post that someone is now claiming that ebola also came out of a lab.  Look, I do not know about that claim. What I do know is that washing hands is a good idea. So is being healthy. Further, I have found great benefit (both in terms of health and budget) in herbal preparations and vitamins. Check it out for yourself. Also, see my GSB4Grans tab, where I pass long some info from people whom I trust (Enlows) and an organization that cites peer reviewed journals (Life Extension.)

Here is evidence of how the British Journal of Medicine deceived the public. Given the more recent deception about "safe and effective" here in the States, you might want to see this: Euripides has an 19 part series on how the case against Andrew Wakefield was "fixed." https://euripides.substack.com/p/video-d-how-the-fabrication-was-discovered?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Video+01+D+%22How+the+BMJ%27s+Fabrication+Was+Discovered%22+6m+3s+for+%22How+the+case+against+Andrew+Wakefield+was+fixed+-+A+21st+Century+Medical+Controversy%22&sender_ctype=email&sender_campaign=aK225J&sender_customer=mONM68E

LISTENERS SHOWED INTEREST

Last week, you my listeners, showed more than average interest in my re-run having to do with autism, which is of course, a serious learning disability,( even if academics isn't hindered. )Because of that interest, I thought I would post one of my most favorite reruns: the interview with Dr. Andy Wakefield. Back in 2009 he came into the radio station studio to answer questions. He was in the middle of being persecuted at the time. His publications, which were world class were being discredited, and for a time the British did not accept his license. All that since, of course, has been undone. He has been exonerated. But he no longer practices medicine nor holds a university post. The world is poorer for it. But the clinic he founded continues with someone else's name. Notice how calm and rational and even, and measured what he says is -- even though I was more enthusiastic that usual. Telling.

Before we went on air, he confided in me that he really wondered why people would do this to him. I reminded him that the Bible says "WHEN people persecute you for righteousness sake, then rejoice." I imagine that he, being an Episcopalian at the time, like me when I was a Presbyterian, had seldom heard that verse. Today, we might have more fulsome explanations of why many varied powers all together were pushing vaccinations that hurt children, but still, the verses apply. And really, in my mind, only Biblical, even apocalyptic explanations are sufficient.

SOCIAL MEDIA "HIT JOB" DISCUSSION

Shortly after this interview, I saw discussion in social media that was slightly disturbing. On Twitter, it seemed that some  young women were conducting a smear campaign. They were fussing about why a doctor like this would hurt children. Finally, I "spoke" to the ring leader. I asked how she thought a researcher could hurt children. He was researching questions that parents had brought to him. That stopped the whole campaign.

Do you see? There was no logic in the argument (even had she had correct facts). She was promoting the idea that because he cast some doubt on the safety of vaccines, that he was stopping children from being safe, therefore somehow hurting children. Obvious nonsense, especially since he was already established as a world class gastro-enterologist. The autism question came to him because there were nearly always digestion issues around gluten and caseIn, or in other words, methionine re-uptake problem. Further, research doesn't directly or immediately DO anything,  per se. So, it is not like research, even if were bad, immediately could harm some individual not connected.

Further, it was not the research or the researcher that had any pecuniary motive; but the opposition surely did. Perhaps I brought this up as a question.

Today, I wonder if this ring leader was really a concerned mom,

Well, it might be too much too much to say that Autism is caused by .... this particular substance. It is, however, necessary to say that Autism MUST be created by something or some things in the environment.  Back in the 1950s there were 2 or 3 per 10,000. Today, there is maybe 1 in 55 boys, 1 in 98 girls. So, obviously not genetic as was previously claimed.

Oh no! I just got an update on those stats. Del Bigtree reports now 1 in 30 children and as many as 1 in 18 boys!  See minute 2:00.38 https://rumble.com/v4aqvo9-episode-357-borderline.html

There is some peer reviewed science on this. The AMA, last I checked, said they knew nothing. Well, that was 2006 or so. I hope they are doing better now. Although, we are now fairly skeptical of what we are told by medicals, now. Yet, we are hoping for progress, yes?

Clearly, we do know that autism correlates with toxicity. But really, we knew that fairly early on, say in 2007 if we saw journals like Applied Nutrition

Anyway, as  mothers, let's do consider whether we want to expose our children to some of these common food additives: glutamate and other excito-toxins.  Further, we will all want to know some of the things that others like ABA therapists, have discovered.

Rerun from 2016

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Huberman has something to say on autism : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccrbE0QHy94

and gosh, this weekend, Feb 3 & 4, there is an Autism Summit in San Antonio, with Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtee and others.  https://autismhealth.com

Does Autism have an on switch? https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/autism-cells-reveal-biochemical-cause-and-new-treatment-hope-feat-dayan-goodenowe-phd-5499198?&utm_medium=VitalSigns&utm_source=SocialM&utm_campaign=AutismHope&utm_content=09-26-2023

CHERISHED MEMORIES

We re-run a cherished episode from when we were in the radio studio back in 2009.  Mrs. Mary Colbert had agreed to come on, but when Dr. Colbert came on, I was so surprised I nearly dropped my coffee. He is such a star in the circle in which I was running at that time. Of course, he continues to be the rockstar doctor in the Word of Faith circles. Just look how young he looks! Amazing! And so funny with brightly colored socks.

Anyway, you will be warmed and cheered this winter morning, thinking about good breakfasts for your child. About right now we could use some encouragement, right? We are right between Christmas cookies and Valentine candies! Yikes! Make those a once in a while treat, and in the meantime, serve up some brain boosting protein  and energizing fruits and vegetables.

FOOD  MYTHS

There are so very many detrimental myths about foods, almost all of which are pushed by conventional authorities, for thier own benefit, or gosh... it has to be admitted, for the plain detriment of the population. Brains grow on good food.

Being sure that poor children had breakfast so they could do well in school was a concern from the lat 1880 until about.... maybe 1980. Back in 1880, charities that couldn't afford meat and eggs for the children at least gave them meat soup. But now, after 1980, I see schools serving up commercial concoctions of transfat and sugar and dyes. Just about the worst. And this is charity? No, it is either thoughtless or intended to be harm.

Now that you know better, you will do better.

Since the 1990s, here in Texas, we had mothers advocating politically, successfully, for taking vending machines out of schools, in hopes of having better nutrition. But then, school lunches often changed from agriculture department surplus cooked in the school to commercial vendors. So, once again, after all the effort politically, the will of the people was subverted, and the children suffer.

Now that you know better, you will do better.

BREAKFAST TO PRODUCTIVITY

Poptarts were just about my favorite when I was a child. That was well before they all had "icing" on top. My dad said, "No,  you can put jam on your own toast." Actually, today, I have much better than the bread my parents could obtain. I do make myself cherry tarts once in a while, but normally I have boiled pasture raised eggs, and a variety of other things like pomegranet juice, grapefruit half, home-made pumpkin pudding, bone broth, and always the highest quality tea with collagen and often raw cream. Wow! living high on the hog as we say in the country, but want to live long.

And my grandsons get country eggs, bacon, and "farm milk" because they live on a farm  -- and wouldn't have it any other way. Did I tell you that my grandsons are good competitors in chess tournaments, wrestling tournaments, and now starting in robotics competitions? And you bet, they do their chores everyday.

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Announcement to Lioness mothers. Sometimes knotty problems call for new solutions. You won't be the first mother who started a school to get education for your own child. Maybe you have already educated yours, but maybe now you are willing to help others. It is a mission that can pay for itself.

Here are my current thoughts about the need to start Christian schools. More coming.

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Finishing up our 3 part series on miraculous healing, we hear the history of "Blind Bartimeus" -- or Blind Bart or today maybe Bart who used to be non-sighted. Well, Bart was once non-sighted, but now he sees. He heard that Jesus the Miracle Worker was coming to town. He positioned himself. Then he started calling out -- loudly.

Look at the dynamics, because they are typical. He positioned himself and he started calling out, toward where he had heard Jesus was coming. People around him told him to stop. Typical!!!  But Jesus did hear him and called him. Then, the people around him changed their tune and were telling him to go.

He threw off his beggar's cloak, the label that permitted him to get his beggar's pittance. Jesus healed him. He walked away, seeing. This throwing off was a faith statement. Jesus said more than once to someone, "You faith has made you whole/well/saved." (It is all the same word in Greek: sozo.)

Go thou and do likewise. Meaning: position yourself, call out, ignore contradictions, have faith, and walk away victorious. That is the way it works.

It might be easier to learn how to read, how to do algebra, and how to understand philosophy than to believe for sight if you have never seen. So, go for what you need. And by all means, throw off the label!

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