Our 14 year old son is a joy to have around and he got to have fun with another friend who turned 14 years old recently and celebrated on the golf course.
Complete with golf carts, they have such fun.
Amazing how fast they grow up!
What I’d Tell You Over *Tea (orig. coffee) If You Asked If We Vaccinate from Deep Roots At Home
Many Thanks and all credit to Jacque for writing this:
I was asked again, recently, if we vaccinated our children.
Before I begin, I believe in parental rights. 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. That said, you need to realize that aborted fetuses are needed for (and their DNA are IN) vaccines.
As a mother and RN, I’ve been researching this topic in depth for quite a while (spurred on by an adverse reaction in my first son with his first (and only) MMR back in ’91), and I have many reasons for not trusting common vaccine science.
12 Basic Reasons For Our Decisions & the Research Behind It
1. You really should be concerned about the toxic ingredients in vaccines.
Injecting neurotoxins like aluminum and formaldehyde, aborted fetal cells, multiple antibiotics and various animal serums into the body is going to cause a lot more harm than even a rough week of the measles or chickenpox…. In my cost-benefit analysis, the chances of my child being harmed from vaccines is far greater than the chances of my child being harmed from one of those illnesses. Once you digest this fact, you will understand why there should be less fear about diseases and more about vaccines.
Many moms are coming to this conclusion!https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.445.1_en.html#goog_1866412210
2. Read the latest pilot study of unvaccinated vs. vaccinated children which found significantly higher rates of allergies, chronic diseases, ear infections and learning disabilities in those vaccinated on schedule.
I felt this deserved a whole post, here.
Who do you think will grow up to be healthier?
3. Can someone please explain how we survived the 1980s with vaccination rates well below “herd immunity” thresholds and far fewer vaccines?
Why didn’t everyone die?
Here’s the data from CDC:
4. Vaccines aren’t as effective as we are told.
Actually there is a huge failure rate. That’s why booster shots are given so often. That’s also why highly vaccinated populations show just as high rates of disease.
5. The diseases we vaccinate for are mild and build lifelong immunity. Why risk a forever vaccine injury?
The immune systems of normally healthy children do the work and the diseases leave with no serious, lasting effects. An excellent natural cure is Vitamin C. Frederick Klenner, MD., observed that safe, high doses of vitamin C could quickly dry up chicken pox and cure measles, polio and hepatitis. Vitamin C/Na Ascorbate for Whooping Cough by Suzanne Humphries, MD
Between 2005 and 2014, there have been NO deaths from measles in the U.S. and 108 deaths from the MMR vaccine. There was 1 death in 2015 and NONE since that. (source CDC, pg 5)
6. I don’t believe that vaccines played much of a role in eliminating diseases.
History offers little evidence that vaccines are responsible for eradicating disease even when “herd immunity” vaccination levels have been reached. Most of the diseases we vaccinate for today were already on a steep decline before their respective vaccines were widely introduced.
Before you laugh, since this may go against everything you’ve ever been taught, I’d ask you to look into this further with actual CDC statistics (see CDC Fig. 1 graph) where arrow says Passage of Vaccine Assistance Act!
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7. Many vaccines were designed using aborted fetal tissueas a growth medium
No, there’s not fetal tissue in vaccines (a common misconception), there are unavoidable traces of fetal cells/foreign human DNA in many of them. I cannot support a medical practice that benefits from abortion, but no matter your views on abortion, you have to admit that there’s a flaw with this practice. NO safety studies have been done on the effects of foreign DNA in the bloodstream.Watch Dr. Stanley Plotkin admit fetal cell lines are IN vaccines under oath in court testimony. This man is evil and has used adopted and those they deemed not contributing to society as guinea pigs… also in people in Africa!https://c78511754537e99f0019e0369be3afce.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
8. You can vaccinate, but you can’t unvaccinate! Please look at the risks and disorders on each vaccine insert
Adverse events are listed on the vaccine package inserts themselves if we would take the time to read them. Your doctor probably won’t show you these. Adverse events are NOT rare. That’s why the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the USA has paid out over $3 billion in vaccine injury compensation claims. Not the one-in-a-million case as we are lead to believe.
9. Unvaccinated children pose no risk to others (it’s the other way around!)
In an open letter to senators, immunologist Tetyana Obukhanych, PhD, states unequivocally that unvaccinated children pose no additional threat/risk to vaccinated children.
“It is often stated that those who choose not to vaccinate their children for reasons of conscience endanger the rest of the public, and this is the rationale behind most of the legislation to end vaccine exemptions currently being considered by federal and state legislators country-wide. You should be aware that the nature of protection afforded by many modern vaccines – and that includes most of the vaccines recommended by the CDC for children – is not consistent with such a statement.”
~Dr. Tatyana
10. If You vaccinate, you will be shedding live virus vaccines (includes the measles and chickenpox vaccine) after shots
The Johns-Hopkins patient guide to caring for the immunocompromised once contained information warning patients to stay away from those recently vaccinated. Interestingly, it has been changed, I believe, under pressure from those who reap huge financial benefits from vaccine sales.
Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many weeks or months afterwards and infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.1,2 3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Furthermore, vaccine recipients can carry diseases in the back of their throat and infect others while displaying no symptoms of disease.10,11,12
Nat’l Acad. of Sciences: Flu Vaccine Recipients Shedding More Flu Virus
Next time you hear someone blame unvaccinated children, please remember who is really spreading these diseases.
(Source) https://c78511754537e99f0019e0369be3afce.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
11. Healthy human cells can TAKE UP foreign DNA spontaneously. Foreign human DNA will be transported into nuclei and be integrated into host genome. The effects of injecting foreign DNA (from the opposite gender) has effects that are devastating and far reaching. We don’t realize the breadth or depth of them yet, but we’re seeing some of them manifested in the chronically ill sick children in our nation.
12. Those trying to teach about vaccine dangers have only one motivation: to prevent more suffering. We have either witnessed it first hand in our own family or know those who have.
13. We must question what doctors and government tell us before many more children and families are harmed….(possibly yours!)
14. All those years ago, it wasn’t too late for me to change my mind when I saw what it did to our first child, and it’s not too late for you to change your mind, either.
If you decided to vaccinate and now regret it, you can still detox that vaccine.
“Vaccine science is severely lacking. It is the tobacco science of our time. The current vaccine schedule (which has more than tripled since vaccine manufacturers became protected from liability) has never been tested for safety. There hasn’t been a randomized double blind placebo controlled study comparing the outcomes of the vaccinated vs. unvaccinated.” ~Unknown
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One View of Biblical, In-Home Family Eldercare
One woman sat in a cluttered kitchen. Perched in her chair, she sang the last hymn from an online LCMS Divine service. After the completion of the service, her father entered the room. Cooking preparations and quiet conversation over a Sunday morning skillet of eggs began.
Moments later, behold! the entry of four teens and two children entered the kitchen and teemed towards the granola cereal bowls and scrambled egg skillet.
Nonna, battling a head cold, entered to hear the grandchildren in animated discussion of Dad’s funny antics on the drive home, church service uptown, the vicar’s wonderful message and soloist’s sweet voice. Now, grandson had a spill and fell into frustration having to clean up the floor. Grandpa and Nonna, standing in the shared, family living space finally broke for the double doors to their apartment, daughter calling out, “Wait just a second, Mom, Dad — your toast is ready.” “Thanks, Jenny,” They carried their plates of toast, buttered and warm towards their apartment in the front two rooms of the family farmhouse to a quieter existence.
In the past eldercare looked like this; older mothers and fathers living amongst their children and grandchildren. Why not today? Is a home-based model of eldercare feasible? Has God “baked-in” the desire of a grown daughter to offer the family team if at all possible? I confronted these questions a few years ago since retirement had coincided with an increasing need for physical support for my mom and dad.
What was the world saying about these questions? My personal feelings toward advocacy were assaulted by many other vocational callings and stirring cautions.
I had fears about the prospect of inviting my parents to live with us. Did I know how to tend the relationships with my husband and children in a change of lifestyle like this?
Christian friends in our circle were not doing this and when I mentioned the plans with a mom friend once, she chuckled ruefully, “Better you, than me!” Her natural reaction belied the constant messages our seniors and adult children are getting from media and the world. We are incentivized to relegate service and relationship matters to retirement and nursing homes in commercials and counselors at every turn. Told it is easier to institutionalize rather than than to face mom’s and dad’s challenges with them, we are tempted to live separately and hope for the best.
Eldercare professionals with vast facilities do help us. They provide the training and expertise our family members lack, and it is good to know they are there at the right time.
However, what does God’s Word and the example of our risen Lord say about questions of Eldercare? Through these first three years, the Lord, through His Word and Sacraments helped me consider what it would be like to live with Mom and Dad sharing our home. Fearing and trusting in Him day by day, also looking to His example of sacrifice in the Word- (particularly in the Gospel of John 19:25) was a process I truly needed and would not trade in retrospect.
Asking spouses about how they feel is a valuable barometer to review the dashboard; gauging the marriage, his/her own sense of timing, desires and personal vocations. Whichever course of action results from these moments, more conversations like this may deepen a married couple’s bonds.
Gratefully, I see that God says “Yes!” He has provided His children an opportunity to take stock in the most key relationships of our lives at exactly the most opportune time. We have the chance to consider our own lack of forgiveness over past wrongs and our own dimmed perspectives. His Holy Spirit leads us to reflect earnestly on the experiences of these most precious people, allowing the ripple effect of the good gifts of their lives to deepen the understanding of their grandchildren.
I am clumsy in honoring my mom and dad. But the gift of their proximity and kind willingness to cast off their independence for the cacophony of a life with us has been superior to the unfamiliarity and incompetence I felt when our relationship was two states away, managed solely by phone calls, and emails.
Thanks be to God for this new, onsite vocation. God has given me, by His grace, the gift of satisfaction from having my parents near. I enjoy their company tremendously, moreover I am able to, with God’s help, try to reflect Jesus’ words to Mom and Dad found in the Gospel of Matthew; “Lo, I am with you always, even to the ends of the earth.” (Matthew 28:20)
Of course, Mom- We start with Us!
Bethany’s blog post Deschool Yourself is great, and put me in mind of the beginnings of our homeschooling journey. I read. And brought babies home from the hospital. The younger ones learned how to be kind, to listen to Mom’s voice, how to hold a fork and get the bites mostly inside of the clothing. We learned how to bike, and play music and pray. We went on field trips to the fishing pond and the zoo. Mom read other books. She thought about them. She prayed.
Deschooling is a real thing and it is more important for the Momma in the beginning of stepping away from the rhythm life we call education than for the children sometimes. I was a trained public school teacher and I loved the instant comeraderie I experienced when I was working.Then I came home to a quiet house and new baby on
the way. Asking questions, praying, and finding books which turned me on my ear and challenged my presuppositions are what clinched it.
Here is the book that got me the most mad, I dare ya…read it. A Thomas Jefferson Education.
19 years later, I am now reading these Charlotte Mason A Home Education Series.
Unplug, Mom…and de school.
Discovering Your Homeschooling Style
Newcomers to homeschooling are often told, “In order to find your homeschooling method, first begin with your child’s learning style.” Diana, a friend and blogger shared her favorite quote recently and her wise advice:
“My favorite quote is: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but a lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats.”
Yes…I advise new homeschool families to find their “why” first and be firmly united in that before even thinking about the “what” and “how.”~ D.B.
Families United. So, wouldn’t it be better to interview one’s spouse first, to determine “Family style” for homeschooling foundations?
What do you think that interview ought to include?
How is our unity?
How have I been at following your (husband’s) lead?
How is our sportsmanship? How can I improve (ouch…lol!)?
Is there an ending point to our home education-what age or stage is that-?
Spanning all areas (spiritual, emotional, relationships, character, etc) of family and individual goals is a great place to start, then prioritize that list. Over a bottle of white might be a good idea.
This is why deschooling is necessary for a few months. Time into the home and away from the artifice of institution helps you figure out the families relational style and begin prayerfully sculpting its educational philosophy.
Their learning style, your teaching style, spouse’s expectations, your own ingrained beliefs about education, that year’s life experiences and transitions, they all impact your choice of curriculum and school calendar and record keeping and they all can make or break your experience.
So pray, analyze. Then start somewhere. Then evaluate the results. Recheck the goals: are they reasonable and measurable? Revise the goals and/or the process as necessary. Keep going. Evaluate. Recheck. Revise. Persevere. Repeat. Be flexible.
Be willing to admit when things aren’t working for you and your family, even is, especially if, “everyone else” raves about that style, curriculum, method. Despite the financial cost that might be involved, if it’s not working, ditch it, resell it, and try something else. But start somewhere. Give it a fair go. Revise it as necessary. And enjoy the journey.
Crushing the Boards: UTAH Senate Passes Ed-Dictatorship Bill; Will House Agree? Great post by Christel Lane Swase
“Think of the current state board as a school bus with fifteen different steering wheels all driving in different directions….if one person is in charge, it’s harder for them to pass the buck.”
Throw blankets project
What do you gift the men in your lie who already have it all? I am brainstorming on some handmade project that calm the crafter while blessing the recipient…how about a fur blanket? Fake fur is not just for history class projects anymore. I think this will be perfect for wintertime handiwork.
Sieks Photoshoot at Home
From Jenny:
“We just got our photos, sponsored by Mom and Dad Siek (thank you), from Breathing Moments Photography. Annette came over to our home and put up with Mommy’s wacky ideas and added a few of her own. The children young and old felt it was a fun, special time, and I loved that Daddy picked out the location- our own home and yard. The photos are so perfect for us, and we’re so glad to have these captured memories to share with you.
Annette has everything you want in a professional photographer. She is fun but takes her work seriously. She’s flexible to work with young and old. Her photos are of undeniable quality and design. She follows through and communicates well.
Any time someone asks about a photographer for a great visual capture, I will suggest Annette Walker at Breathing Moments Photography.” Breathing Moments Photography
Integrity in Home Education
One of my deepest instincts is that of encouraging parents to protect their own autonomy to direct the education and upbringing of their children. Many in the homeschooling lifestyle agree with me that one of the biggest threats to our liberty is entanglement with government funding. When I hear of the government trying to “help” homeschoolers, I am very cautious as not to jeopardize our liberty and expose any threat which would end it-. My friends and I agree with President John Adams’s sentiment, “Liberty once lost is lost forever.”
Indiana HomeEducator Action’s entry lays out this cautionary tale well as it gives us the origins of the Common School to consider…H/T Debi Ketron
“Common Schools
Although Common Schools are mentioned in the Indiana Constitution, we wonder if the State remembers the history of Common Schools? According to E.G. West author of, Education and the State, the Common Schools were only for those families who did not desire to take responsibility to educate their children privately.
Before these government schools began in America, most families were privately educating their children in brick and mortar schools or at home. The Common Schools were first formed in the rural areas for those who did not have access to private brick and mortar schools. Common Schools were not universal, compulsory, or free. Parents had to pay to send their child to a Common School.”
When we decide to spend our time and energies educating our families in our homes, using our chosen resources and reaching out to our immediate communities with our gifts of time and sponsorship, we remember this- that all is possible because we are not being forced by a government body, compelled to “seat time,” mandatory phone calls from an outside monitor or required hours of certain activities outside of the home devoid of faith development or home discipleship.
Enjoy this excellent and thorough work by clicking the link below… May it encourage you to apply the Freedom Test to our family’s Home Education lifestyle.
Maintaining Integrity of Home Education Click: http://iaheaction.net/maintaining-integrity-of-home-education/
Sieking, Finding 