PARENTING FREEDOM

carol | August 26, 2010

Shocking School Drug And Gang Survey
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/education/shocking-school-drug-and-gang-survey-20100819-lgf

“Nearly 50 percent of all public school students report drug use or sales on school grounds.”

One in five seven-year-olds unable to write properly while thousands more struggle with basic maths
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306316/Thousands-pupils-unable-write-properly-struggle-basic-maths.html#ixzz0xideMSnp

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America ~ Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America ~ Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt [FREE BOOK]
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf

JMP Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt 30 January 2009

“He could take a pro-life child and turn him pro-abortion in one hour.”

“They would use the economy to get the women out of the house.”

“Then the state would get the kids. Train them. Brainwash them.”

Charlotte Iserbyt – Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World [linked this video before]

Time Out Productions Interviews Charlotte Iserbyt

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carol | August 17, 2010

I remember when singer Keith Green described one of the excuses of Christians as, “But I just didn’t feel led, Lord.”

I hear that line when people consider homeschooling. They say, “But I just don’t feel led.” They are looking at it backwards. Keeping your children home is just continuing what you are already doing. When you are making the choice to send your children to school, you are the one acting. You are taking your children out of your home and putting them somewhere else. That is where you should question being “felt led.” Do you feel “led” to put your children in a secular, government controlled, pagan school system that is guaranteed to offend your Christian values?

IndoctriNation Trailer

http://indoctrinationmovie.com/

Homeschooling does not have to be difficult. Some homeschooling parents “play teacher” and make homeschooling much too big of a deal. I don’t think that is always in the best interests of the children nor the homeschooling parent. Consider teaching your children to teach themselves.

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carol | August 9, 2010

School meals go halal in London
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/school-meals-go-halal-in-london/story-e6frg6so-1225901832047

Milwaukee teachers fight for Viagra drug coverage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100806/ap_on_re_us/us_milwaukee_teachers_viagra

Experts warn parents against allowing children to become computer addicts
http://www.naturalnews.com/029410_children_computer_addicts.html

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carol | August 5, 2010

‘Hard Truth’ on Education
New, Higher Standards for Proficiency Alter View of Years of Perceived Gains
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703940904575395713088598850.html

“Hundreds of thousands of children had been misled into believing they were proficient in English and math, when in fact they were not…”

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carol | August 5, 2010

Plentiful Maternal Affection in Early Infancy Boosts Adult Coping Skills, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100726201000.htm

“Mums who shower their infants with affection equip them to cope well with life stressors as adults…”

Mama’s love makes babies grow up less stressed: study
http://www.france24.com/en/20100727-mamas-love-makes-babies-grow-less-stressed-study-0

Children’s School Performance Tied to Family ‘Type’
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720162317.htm

“Coming from a cohesive family, in which members tend to be warm and responsive to one another, where problems are resolved, and members cope well, increases the likelihood of children doing well in school…”

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carol | August 5, 2010

Social Snubs May Be Seriously Sickening
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100802/sc_livescience/socialsnubsmaybeseriouslysickening

Genetic Link to Children’s Emotional Problems Precipitated by Bullying
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100722153616.htm

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carol | July 12, 2010

Choosing public school, homeschool, private school?

‘Cheshire Puss,’ [Alice] began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’

‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.

‘I don’t much care where–’ said Alice.

‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Australian teacher sues for £500,000 because her larynx was damaged by ‘shouting at rowdy children’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1293818/Teacher-sues-500-000-larynx-damaged-shouting-rowdy-children.html#ixzz0tTTL9MnW

“A teacher in Australia is claiming half a million pounds in compensation because she says she permanently damaged her larynx yelling at rowdy children.”

“Her voice was damaged, she says, during her attempts to shout over the noise in her classroom as she tried to control the pupils, aged around 11.”

Awww… Poor thing…

Video: Horrible liberal classroom bias denounced by, er, 11-year-old
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/29/video-horrible-liberal-classroom-bias-denounced-by-er-11-year-old/

A Conservative Kid Tries to Survive in California School
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/a_conservative_kid_tries_to_su.html

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carol | July 5, 2010

More than half of Grade 12 students failed 2009 math exam
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1189774.html

“More than half of Nova Scotia’s Grade 12 students are struggling with mathematics… Only 45 per cent of pupils passed the provincial examination last year…”

The Kids Can’t Read
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/21/the-kids-cant-read

“Forty percent of Atlanta eight-grade students tested Below Basic proficiency in reading… Far too few children, no matter their socioeconomic background, can read well enough to function in an economy in which literacy is more-important than ever… Few university schools of education (which educate most of our teachers) do a proper job of teaching aspiring students how to address reading… During the 1970s and 1980s, states embraced Whole Language and ignored phonics, forgetting that kids need to know how to also sound words. Only after states saw reading scores decline did they reverse course.”

Florida school district bans Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features-the-religion-world/2010/07/01/florida-school-district-bans-bibles-on-religious-freedom-day/

“School officials claim that Bibles do not provide any educational benefit to the students…”

Consider all the historical figures who began their education with the only book their families owned – the Bible.

Home Computers Have Led To Lower Test Scores In Younger Children – Study
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_articles/home_computers_have_led_lower_test_scores_younger_children_study#comments

“Students in grades five through eight, particularly those from disadvantaged families, tend to post lower scores once these technologies arrive in their home.”

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carol | June 29, 2010

Mrs. M. was most definitely greeted by our Lord with,

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
Matthew 25:21

We knew Mrs. M. and her family since my parents first began homeschooling my sister in the early eighties. She was a professional teacher who homeschooled her own three children, and then she began to educate other children who needed her until she had a full-fledged private Christian school. When running her school, she continued to be very supportive of homeschoolers and even offered her school for art/music/sports, etc. every Friday. My children and I visited there on Fridays for almost three years. We have many memories of those years.

Mrs. M.’s school was home to a variety of children from various circumstances and backgrounds. There were Christian children, doctors’ children, poor children, children too smart for the system, challenged children, previously bullied children, children given up on by the public schools, etc. There were even children of other religions (like Muslim) whose parents wanted something better for their children than the public school system. Mrs. M. was a loving servant to each one.

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:40

When I think of how Mrs. M. loved, helped, and encouraged the many children who went to her school over the years, she reminds me of Lady Liberty.

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

And this was the way it was at Mrs. M.’s school,

“Even the people that you reject can make it here.”
Glenn Beck

Mrs. M. passed away at the age of 63. She has three grown children (late 20′s, early 30′s) and a little grandson. Their father also died just a few years ago. May God bless them.

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carol | June 22, 2010

RI boy who made banned toy soldier hat gets medal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_re_us/us_army_hat_banned

My mum’s worth £1.5m: That’s the official amount a woman could be paid to bring up a child
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287713/My-mums-worth-1-5m-Thats-official-woman-paid-bring-child.html#ixzz0rcWHfnB4

Psychotropic Drugs Kill More People Than Illegal Ones
http://www.cchr.org/#/videos/where-the-truth-lies

The Breeders’ Cup
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704289504575313201221533826.html#printMode

Study Confirms Abortion Triples Breast Cancer Risk Among Sri Lanka Women
http://lifenews.com/nat6451.html

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carol | June 18, 2010

I was sitting in a movie theatre last weekend, and all of a sudden among the previews, the following trailer was played. I could hardly believe it and questioned where I was. Were parents in N.B. actually seeing this???

Waiting for “Superman” Trailer [HD] 2010

http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/

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carol | June 3, 2010

Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on teacher unions:

Children ‘more likely to own a mobile phone than a book’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7763811/Children-more-likely-to-own-a-mobile-phone-than-a-book.html

Win a soccer game by more than five points and you lose, Ottawa league says
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/06/01/win-a-soccer-game-by-more-than-five-points-and-you-lose-ottawa-league-says/?preview=true&preview_id=7652&preview_nonce=e6fa056a34

Pregnant? Forget housework, it could harm your new baby
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1282979/Housework-pregnant-lead-premature-birth.html#ixzz0pnHv3HXv

If your house is as clean as a whistle, you’ll be fit as a fiddle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1283437/A-tidy-home-means-tidy-body-study-reveals-cleanest-healthiest.html#ixzz0pnHpNifO

Probiotic Found in Breast Milk Helps Alleviate Symptoms of Digestive Disorders
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602193326.htm

Cry It Out: The Potential Dangers of Leaving Your Baby to Cry
http://drbenkim.com/articles-attachment-parenting.html

“The child stops crying because she learns that she can no longer hope for the caregiver to provide comfort, not because her distress has been alleviated.”

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carol | May 28, 2010

Son sues mother for ‘failing to protect him from father’s beatings’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1281380/Son-sues-mother-failing-protect-fathers-beatings.html

Take responsibility, submissive wives.

‘Working mothers are to blame if their children misbehave’ says a leading psychologist
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280400/Working-mothers-blame-children-misbehave-says-leading-psychologist.html

“‘As a parent of a child of this age, you need to realise that if things go pear-shaped it is actually always your fault, in the sense that if you keep a close enough eye on them you can prevent atrocities.’”

“The author claims that young children ‘need to be in the presence of a responsive, loving adult at all times’, warning working mothers that daycare is associated with more boastful, disobedient and aggressive children.”

How 20 books at home can help your child to soar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280398/How-20-books-home-help-child-soar.html

“Even parents who own just 20 books can significantly increase their children’s success… Researchers found those who grew up in a ‘bookish home’ –with around 500 books –remained in education for three years longer than those born to families with empty bookshelves.”

Books in Home as Important as Parents’ Education in Determining Children’s Education Level
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100520213116.htm

“In some countries, such as China, having 500 or more books in the home propels children 6.6 years further in their education. In the United States, the effect is less, 2.4 years, than the 3.2-year average advantage experienced across all 27 countries in the study.”

Home Libraries Provide Huge Educational Advantage
http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/home-libraries-provide-huge-educational-advantage-14212/

Germs in Soil Might Give Learning a Boost
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/639398.html

“The mice who ate the bacteria ‘navigated the maze twice as fast and with less demonstrated anxiety behaviors as control mice.’”

Copycat Behavior in Children Is Universal and May Help Promote Human Culture
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100503135705.htm

Watch out for children copying teachers and peers!

Video: Chris Christie vs. the teachers union — director’s cut
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/27/video-chris-christie-vs-the-teachers-union-directors-cut/

Parents’ Physical Inactivity Influences Children
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525094910.htm

Refusing kids’ vaccine more common among parents
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-04-vaccines04_ST_N.htm

Tylenol recall: Serious side effects investigated
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/25/news/companies/tylenol_recall_adverse_consumer_complaints/index.htm

Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer
http://www.aolnews.com/health/article/study-many-sunscreens-may-be-accelerating-cancer/19488158?ncid=webmaildl1

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carol | May 25, 2010

CA Lets Communist China Supply School Curriculum

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carol | May 8, 2010

One teenager in five leaving school unable to read or do maths
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1274947/One-teenager-leaving-school-unable-read.html#ixzz0nKxBZqfH

“One in five teenagers leaves school illiterate and innumerate despite two decades of education reform, research shows…”

“About 17 per cent of 16 to 19-year-olds are functionally illiterate…”

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carol | April 28, 2010

NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking
Benjamin Franklin Middle School Chief Says Students Should Be Cut Off From Facebook, Text Messaging
http://wcbstv.com/technology/facebook.social.networking.2.1662565.html

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carol | April 28, 2010

Poor Quality Teachers May Prevent Children from Reaching Reading Potential, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100422153804.htm

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carol | April 22, 2010

D’you remember me? Headmaster savagely beaten by ex-pupil who harboured a 20-year grudge over caning
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267843/Headmaster-Kieran-Heakin-beaten-ex-pupil-20-year-grudge.html#ixzz0lqLF0sYR

“A headmaster has been left deaf and scarred for life by a former pupil who harboured a 20-year grudge for being caned as a child…”

“Earlier Bolton Crown Court heard how Bullen confronted Mr Heakin, saying: ‘You will remember me and you will remember my father – you used to bully me at school…’”

“David Farley, defending, said: ‘When the assault was happening, he says all he could do was picture himself at that age and he lost control.’”

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