Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks were blamed on the small percentage of the unvaccinated population as recently as 2013.
Today few can deny the fact that fully-vaccinated children are spreading whooping cough as outbreaks continue across the U.S.
Before I begin, I believe in parental freedom of choice whether to vaccinate or not. I hope we can all respect each others choice to decide what is best for our individual children and resist the temptation to judge one another.
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I continue to see a decline in kids’ social, emotional, and academic functioning, as well as a sharp increase in learning disabilities and other diagnoses.
There are three societal changes (and probably more) within families leading to this crisis.
First, children today are too “underemployed” in the family structure. It goes way beyond not having the occasional summer job for a teen in high school.
Secondly, where, how and how much kids are allowed to play has changed.
And we have stopped stressing our children. Sound too tough?
Let me explain…then some solutions.
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Parents have had it!
As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing to leave for alternatives.
Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways….
Netflix will be launching an LGBTQ-themed superhero show featuring cross-dressers titled “Super Drags” later this year. There comes a time when enough is enough, and for our household, that time is now!
The popular streaming platform shared a preview trailer of the new cartoon series on Twitter Thursday writing: “They’re here, they’re queer, and they’re going to save the world. Super Drags, a new animated series coming soon.”…
Sex Education by Alex Newman
The Neenah School Board in Wisconsin voted this week to approve a highly controversial sex education curriculum that begins introducing gender ideology, sexually transmitted diseases, homosexual parents and other topics – in Kindergarten. The sex education indoctrination gets progressively more extreme with each year of elementary school.
And Wisconsin isn’t the only state something very similar is happening in!
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Mosquitoes alone can’t do us much harm, but as disease carriers, these insects give us much reason to be concerned.
Mosquitoes are of interest to me since (we believed) several of our family contracted Lyme in 2009 from mosquitoes, not ticks. Plenty of mosquitoes biting in our area, but no ticks found. Tests showed we had bands positive for Lyme….
A child who eats 2 cups of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, a small bag of Skittles, and 8 ounces of Orange Crush soda will consume 102 milligrams of artificial dye, including red dye #40. Behavioral tests found as little as 30 mg can cause adverse reactions.
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“Read me Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Momma!”
These days a parent could offer their young child storytime with a picture book, they could play an audio book, start the animated video or even ask Alexa! In a single generation, the explosion of screen-based media has transformed the experience of childhood, from TV and videos, to an unlimited range of technology available at any time via portable devices.
I ran across this brand new published study that opens up the hidden world of a child’s mind in each of those situations. The purpose was to explore the differences between story format (illustrated vs audio vs animated) and how they each affect the integration and growth of functional brain networks that support learning in preschool-age kids, including language development and visual imagery (imagination)….
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As John received revelation upon revelation sitting exiled upon the Isle of Patmos, he issued a very strong warning for us in our day. He told us that our entire world would be deceived (lied to) through the sorceries (perhaps many) that would come out of Babylon. (Rev. 18:23-24)
He went on to say that the end result of this deception would be the demise of prophets, saints and many good men. In other words no one would be spared in this great deception by these sorceries. Remember that we were told that, if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.
So what is this sorcery of which John warns?
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By Rick Thomas.
While summer is an appreciated and welcomed relief from the blustery cold of winter, it does bring a different kind of difficulty. The summer months draw attention to our universal struggle with biblical sexuality, and the modesty debates take a prominent role in our conversations.
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