Category Archives: Activities to do with Children

Mothering and Salvation

The problems that mothers feel the most have changed over the years. Back in the 1980s we were tormented that our children were not doing well in school. In the early 2000s, we learned that “learning disabilities” were common. We were then puzzled why we were having so many physiological issues that “no one knew about.” We began to be locked into controversy about whether vaccines caused autism. By the 20 tens we were just overwhelmed by the massive problems our children were having. In the 2020 we are flabberghasted at the problems that society is bringing us. We just hope our children are not raped, mutilated, or alienated from us. We think now that learning problems like “learning disabilities” are largely dealt with. We are exhausted.

The root cause of everything is evil in the world, brokenness of humanity. Wouldn’t it be great if there were one over-arching solution? Good news. There is. We call it salvation. Today, for most people, this word has a strange, religious smell to it. It means rescue! In Central America, there is a beer named “Salvation” because there the refreshing quality of a cold beer could find no better term!  Salvation is rescue, it is refreshing, it is also a total renewal of reality.

As mothers, as grandmothers, as educators, we sure need a resurrection out of decay, dirtiness, and darkness.  Jesus is there. He brought it to us. Came down from heaven to walk among us humans, to offer His Divine Hand.

Hear how this could apply in your child’s life.

Blessings.

Giving Comfort and the Comfort of Giving

I, like so many others, have been out volunteering to help the victims of the floods. Our hearts go out. Our diligence and vigilance needs to go out. The cause of devastation is partly or entirely the fault of government. The lack of response is also continuing lack or nefarious action of government. The help both in the Kerrville/Hunt area and the Sandy Creek/Round Mountain areas have been done by volunteers. Unthanked and increasingly restrained.

Something great happened, however, and that is what I will tell you about. Elizabeth King brought weighted teddy bears to comfort victims. Let’s consider that.

Effective Trauma Therapy

Dr. Lendell Braud, Ph.D. brings us report of effective trauma therapy. After a career of teaching at Texas Southern and working with traumatized and at risk children both in private practice and in partnership with several charity organization, she is now working with veteran residential treatment centers around the country.

Please hear her time-tested ideas. Please hear her “guided imagery” as a way to walk people of any stripe toward hearing from and communing with God. Acknowledge that because she is a psychologist, working with public universities and a wide range of people, that she is not permitted to use religious language. So please listen, even if not in your particular denominational dialect.

Our hearts and prayers go with flood victims and responders.

 

Screen addictions : Something NOT to do this Summer

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

Usually we have lots of interest in an episode about activities to do with children during the summer. This week, we sort of extended that to focus on discussions having to do with better thinking. (See product in “shop” for more of this.) Now, this week, I am running a re-run from all the way back in 2008. A young man shared his experience with gaming. Then in 2017, it was popular again. I think a gaming group swarmed through. While the problem with screen addiction is not just gaming, we increasingly are finding that too much screens are a problem.

Boys might like games. (Overlooked way too much. Get out in the sun with a ball and a friend!) Youth are susceptible to grooming and bad company over the internet. (Intentional depredation.)  Men have long since recognized that they are vulnerable to porn. (Intentional slavery.)   Even older women, ahem, ma like too much the news.  Too much damages our eyes. Too much warps our view of the world. Too much keeps us from doing other things with PEOPLE face to face.

TESTIMONIES OF CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS

So, let me share a testimony for 20 more than 15 years ago. I think it may still help. He was homeschooled. He had his parents fooled. Similarly, a rather famous Bible teacher found that his son was near death on drugs and his daughter had been depredated sexually online. In his home. With two attentive parents! Fortunately, both of his children weathered their storm and work in his ministry now. It can happen to anyone. Learn secondhand!

YOUR CHALLENGE TO MAKE SUMMER VALUABLE

The good news in this screen addiction challenge, is that it is a needed lesson in self-control. It is an opportunity for bonding and guidance — like when my parents discussed the vagaries of TV ads and the unethicality of lending based on pay-as-you-go newspaper ads.

NEW : 5G and/or EMF Pollution

https://www.bitchute.com/video/gBblGf14a2aE

 

Dr. Lee Merritt on EMF

https://www.bitchute.com/video/E2SRaQYUtLoI

Liberty TV warning about 5G danger and.or EMF danger : stunting plants and IQ

https://www.bitchute.com/video/lIAHuZWl3Pli