Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Abigail Adams recognized the importance of teaching her own children. She stressed children should be taught by mothers who were not merely literate, but students themselves, and she was ready to speak out in favor of home-education every chance she had. She would have supported parents making an exodus from public schools (government schools) today!
She was a fabulous early example of how homeschooling could and should look….
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Dr. Theresa Deisher received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Physiology from Stanford University and has spent over 20 years in commercial biotechnology.
In her Open Letter to Legislators, she warns that vaccine products contain DNA fragments from fetal tissue that cannot be filtered out. Research conducted suggests that using foreign, human DNA fragments is having unintended consequences. …
As a surgical RN and as a mom, I have always been a stickler on proper handwashing! Just ask my family!
So when my friend Jaralee Annice Metcalf did a handwashing experiment with her students to show why it is so important, I was thrilled because the results were disgusting! What a great teachable moment it made!
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What seems to be a main issue with energy drinks is that teens, and even adults, are under the impression that they are perfectly harmless.
Or think they are a health drink! Most people are unaware of the high caffeine content in one drink alone (not to mention the high amounts of sugar!)
Just one drink can equal 4 or more cups of coffee, and while sodas generally contain 15 mg of caffeine, one energy drink is likely to contain 2 to 10 times that amount….
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We attended a small church years ago with the family of a young boy who had a severe peanut allergy. This family lived in a state of constant concern. They could not eat at restaurants, they shared pitchins with us with extreme caution. We were all on high alert as he had experienced repeated anaphylactic reactions to peanuts. They kept an epi-pen on hand everywhere they went. The vigilant parents felt even trace amounts on the lip or skin or even the scent of the food could trigger a reaction. It was very hard on their child and family.
Back then we had no idea why this happened….
This booklist of older (sadly-forgotten) children’s books is a treasure. This doesn’t mean they are not worthy of our time, but an evidence of how far we’ve actually slipped in the quality of our reading material.
I loved listening to my mom read books like these in different voices to us when we were little. She told me she learned it from her mother, my Nana. She could make us laugh just by putting the emPHASis on the wrong sylLABle. She used an itsy-bitsy, squeaky mouse voice and a hysterical, booming giant voice. She tried to do all the voices. Sometime it was horrid, but always it made us feel engaged and very loved.
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