The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Problems

Vaccines for the Start of School? What will you do?

A round up of my thoughts and questions.

The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment of The Constitution of the United States of America ensures that you should be able to get an exemption. Sometimes it takes working at it.

Besides, you might want to ask other questions about the safety and efficacy of the government schools.

https://rumble.com/v7dau9s-truth-be-told-remdesivirveklury-death-protocols.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

Texans for Vaccine Choice Discuss Informed Consent

https://rumble.com/user/txforvaxchoice

Errata: I should have mentioned Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, Dr. Teresa Long, and Dr. Ardis DO among the doctor whislteblowers.

You might also want to know about Lt. Col. Ivan Raiklin, who has researched the covid scam with professional expertise of both a Green Beret and a Constitutional attorney. (But is not the one mentioned in the audio.)t

I have heard it said that as many of 90% of parents reported that they were likely to get the covid jab for their children, while only less than 10% did because of the truth getting out.

Without the brave truthtelling of people like this, it is very likely that a a whole generation of children would have been jabbed, thereby some dying and most others having their fertility stolen. Our society likely would have collapsed. Most of the heroes in this story never set out to be heroes. Mostly, it was forced upon them and they simply chose to do the right thing, following the morals of their faith and the ethics of their profession. The question is why so many failed. Thank God, in the highest, that some did not.

Continuation of interview with Dan Baze KFRE 580 AM in Lubbock, Texas.

We agree we need some rethinking in education. We agree that Jesus might be a good model. We agree that we need character education.

Okay, so what might be one practical application? Sharon talks about her ideas for a micro-school. How this idea came about, what it would look like, and who it might help.

Especially younger children, who need a cozy environment, and might learn at a faster or slower pace in one area. So, now, we have individualized, caring education! As well as higher academic standards and better character training.

So we have rethinking education and a practical application in a micro-school.

Listen! Share!

contact me at [email protected] if you want consulting help starting a school.

Go to www.teachachildchangeanation.org if you want a course in how to start a daycare or preschool, especially inyour church.

I was recently hosted The Dan Baze show on KFRE, a local prime time radio show.

In this portion, you will hear a little introduction of me and my project.

We cover Montessori, character education, colonial education, and the new measures of putting some Bible into Texas schools.

We had a great time. Come and listen.

Thanks so much to Dan Baze (insurance agent extraordinaire) for giving me this introduction in Lubbock, leader in homeschooling & private Christian schools. Yet, even in Lubbock, we have academic and character problems! Everywhere -- we need a thorough rethinking and then some founding of some new Christian schools.

Will work on getting a land address, but for now, please write me at [email protected]. We appreciate your generosity in helping get the word of help, healing,and wholeness out. Please contact me through www.orgstrat.net or [email protected] if you want consulting services. The site for the online course in how to start a licensed childcare center is www.teachachildchangeanation.org

Here is our special for our 250 year anniversary of the American Revolution. Here are some related things to think about in terms of your children's learning. How are manners and civics related? Character and government? These are things that we seldom think about today, but are vital. They were the root of the success of our culture and our nation's founding. Yet, almost unknown today.

BTW, why did our American Revolution "work" and the French Revolution did not? Was it not character, principles, and structure rooted in the Reformed reading of the Bible? Yes! Manners (how one behaves) and civics (how one orders political life) came from the Bible in the American Revolution, already tested in Protestant communities.

Consider these videos and articles. Please watch them with your children (age appropriate. Young Washington and the Civilian Defense intro are bloody.)

Then, consider encouraging your children with their own self-improvement projects. Talk about this at your church or club.

Have a great summer.

Young Washington Official Trailer

Young Washington Movie

Historians react to Young Washington Movie

Is what others call ambition wrong?

Where does ambition come from? (At least 2 answers.)

What is the best way to use ambition?

Does "calling" from God have anything to do with ambition?

Rules of Civility by George Washington from Wall Builders

What are the most important manners (aka rules for civility) in your world?

What are the most important manners for the economic category just above yours? Higher or lower?

How can you find out what the rules are in any group?

Do you know anyone who raised there status? How did they do it? What rules did they master that they can tell you about?

What Students were Reading in 1776

What 1, 2 or 4 books from this list might you want to read this summer -- while you are in the air conditioner.

They should be in your public library. If they are not, then please consult the librarian about how to obtain.

Wouldn't it be fun to have a study group to discuss these books with?

Do you know any one who knows about these books who could teach or lead a study group? If not, ask a professor. If you don't know any professors, ask a pastor.

Famous Quotes of Ben Franklin

Pick a quote and memorize it. Maybe do this each week for the rest of the summer?

Ben Franklin's plan for self-improvement in 4 weeks (Not recommending OCPD Foundation, as I do not know them, just passing along the Franklin article)

Can you improve your life in just 4 weeks? Yes! much better than randomly trying all the time. See book by Ed Rush *Twenty-one Day Miracle* which is based on science and an easy read.

Civilian Defense Won the Revolution (Patrick Henry & the Bell Ringers etc.)

What was the success behind Patrick Henry?

Can you replicate that at all in your life?

Do you know a prepping group? A political group? A self-improvement group? Find one you like and see what you can learn.

Is it a good idea that parents teach civics? Shouldn't that be done by professionals? How is that working out for you?

Deuteronomy 6 tasks parents with education. Even if you hire a private school or send your child to governments schools, still, in the end a parent is responsible.

So, do we teach civics? Meaning ... the knowledge and training how to contribute to the common good by properly interfacing with the government.

Let's consider that. What would civics consist in? The small child might have to share responsibility to clean up shared space. The moppet may learn to enforce non-bullying on his playground. The "junior higher" may learn about governmental affairs by participating in an ordered voluntary association, as perhaps a club with officers. The "high schooler" may be trying out her speaking ability, promoting some measure at city council to restrain government. We all had best be continuing to learn about history and governmental philosophy.

Today, we take one episode from our Manner product to consider civics:

that we must teach it,

that parents should be involved in being sure it is taught and properly,

and consider what might best be taught.

Open to your ideas, too.

I hope you have a wonderful Independence Day celebration -- our 250th.

Here are some resources you might enjoy:

Dinesh D'Souza on John Adams' Warnings: Necessity of Virtue of the Population for National Survival

Dinesh D'Souza on Benjamin Franklin's Secret: Self-Improvement

Let's review the principles of the founders. Here is an introduction, a primer. (Not to be confused with the New England primer that taught reading.) Returning to and understanding of the basic principle's of the founders is of great need.

1. Rights are given by God, not government.

2. Governments are given the power to protect the citizens.

3. Citizen should be freemen who hold government accountable to the original principles.

4. For this reason, all citizens must be able to read, so they can read the Bible, so they can be sure that the laws are following the Bible.

Think how very different that is from our philosophy today. I had a pastor actually argue with me that governments, not God, give rights! And surely, to suggest that laws should be founded on Biblical principles is hardly under consideration.

But let's us consider it. Let's read actual history and actual political philosophy. And the very words of the founders, which we indeed have.

BTW, then, one highly educated like I am will see that not only was most of this left out of our education, we were actually taught lies. Washington being a deist is ridiculous; he was a very devout Church of England man. There is a reason why so many pictures of him are in the kneeling position. Why would a general kneel down and pray to a Deist type God? Ben Franklin's suggestion of seeking the help of Providence was not some perfunctory break, as my students would like to think. And Thomas Jefferson's "cutting up the Bible" was in order to make a non-reptitive gospel with which to evangelize the natives.

Please see the movie about George Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin. Go see the movie coming out about the young George Washington. Take children. Then start reading history with them!

We apologize for Apple Podcast incorrectly saying we are a monthly. We post weekly. We have re-arranged our posting so that Apple now can not not know that.

As a run-up to our 350th Independence Day, I thought it would be good to revisit some of our episodes related to that.

Today: teaching your child civics.

This vital education is entirely missing from our government schools -- intentionally so. Something else has been substituted: being a world citizen. Oh, that sounds great, but when you investigate, what has happened is an entire switch from Christian, American, community values. Even character training has been entirely erased. Instead of character, a training in tirggered feelings. Instead of moral and civic engagement, a weaponization of activism, whole based on feelings generated by someone else.

Critical thinking is not analytic and synthetic, but critical meaning Marxist deconstructionist. (If you question this, check out the little booklets that come yearly to every professor's mailbox that supposedly encourage critical thinking and discover that the conclusions are all Marxist. Never could logic come out conventional or Christian -- apparently -- based on those booklets. By contrast, I think you know that there are many apologetic references that do use logic and come out with conventional morals.)

In short, for 2 or 3 generations, our government schools (and many private schools) have taught a substitute value system, contrary to the Christian view of the founders of The United States. In previous decades any apparent morals or civics may have not been taught. Then we had "values clarification" which many thought was only "morals deconstruction." Then we had obvious Marxism/socialism/Climate Change, etc. Now we have a pitched battle for hetero-normativity in sexual behavior.

But maybe, just maybe, you want to be sure that your child understands American values, the need to both restrain oneself for the community, and the need to contribute toward that community. For no student is this more important than for "the learning disabled" because the system focuses so much on "accomodation" and falsely so called "remediation" that normally these students do not get the normal kind of student engagement that other students get. Further, any reading problems mean that these shtudents do not get "the between the lines" comprehension of classic civics texts -- even if they were presented with such. Manners, getting along with others, and civics is exactly the kind of socialization that SHOULD go on in education. It just seldom does -- unless the parent or rare school focuses in on it.

So, today, I give you the episode on teaching your children civics, found in our Manners series. You can get the Manners series in the SHOP tab of www.greatshalom.org

What do humans need most? God.

Okay, and then water.

Want to keep health? Regain health? Help your child?

Great. Maybe start with getting pure water.

And btw, given the food system in the USA, alkalinzed water would be wise.

https://rumble.com/v7bjizo-tap-water-warning-why-millions-are-hydrating-with-toxic-dead-bio-mass.html?e9s=src_v1_mfp

Our most popular topic: activities to do with your children this summer.

This year, we focus primarily on activities that go with our 250 anniversary of Independence Day.

It was to Mrs. Elizabeth Willing Powell, a Quaker "hostess with the mostess," that Benjanim Franklin said, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Whether we have the intelligence and character to keep a democratic republic as opposed to some form of slavery is very much in question. What we can do as mothers is to be sure that our children know history and have some exposure to proper civics.

freedom250.org

Lots of ideas. Please contribute some more.

An example: learning about Richard Henry Lee, founder.

https://x.com/publicschoolext/status/2062677814802059437

Simon Okwayo has visited Austin a couple of times that I know about. The first time, I was able to prevail upon him to come to the studio.

He told some stories of his childhood. Amazing. Now, he grew up in Africa, in a situation with a lot less material abundance than we in the States had then and have now. But he and his family were believers. And as a young boy, he moved out on that faith. Very surprising result. Very inspiring. And it turned out that he was indicative of his life's work. He is known as an apostle because he has started many churches, including in the Middle East.

I am sure you will enjoy hearing Brother Simon's history. It is a great story to contemplate as you plan the summer for your children. Think what childhood could be. Think what youth could be.

The last time I saw Apostle Okwayo was at a house church meeting in Lake Travis. We were packed in. Before he started his comments, he challenged us, where were the children? We should not leave our children behind. The one father who was there who was young enough to have a child (by our expectations) pointed out that he had his son right there with him. The rest of the crowd didn't respond, even with their faces. You see, there in Austin, everyone in the room was old enough to have any children that they may have had be old enough to be out of the home. YOu see, no one in the room expected ever to have more than at most maybe 4 children. Probably poll the room and find an average of 2 children a piece, and since everyone was over 50, no one had "left children at home" to come to a church meeting.

Why the challenge? Really, it was a correction. At some length. But no one was at all convicted. Blank faces, because I think no one understood. Conceptually, "Okay: children should come to church not left at home. What is going on? " That is what they were thinking if they were even awake enough.

From an African point of view, anyone over 20 is probably married and starting to have children. So anyone over 50 should have a houseful. Maybe 10 children. So, any Christian meeting would be on the whole, mostly people less than 18 years of age. Okwayo had concluded that since there was only one child, everyone had left their children at home. No, he was assuming there were many more children than there were.

You might think through why they are not. What are the downsides of that which have not been recognized? What might we do to make for at least choice? Please recognized that our ideas so far have not worked well. Check out an old book The Government is Not a Village. What might be done differently? Maybe more like the Bible? Stop thinking in judgmentalness of what others should do. What might we do?

Think what childhood might be. Think what youth could be. We have great preachers who credit their parents. We have youth who are overcoming what their parents gave them. What could be from here?