Today, a replay of How to Have a Smarter Baby. Still true. Although today, the first advice would be not to destroy their brain with medical grade bio-weapons! I am sure you have heard enough about that. If not, connect with me on X.com (formerly Twitter) and you will see a couple of years of posts of scientific data.

However, you can have a smarter baby by better nutrition, basic safety and an enriched environment.

An enriched environment means an attentive mother giving the child brain stimulating, interesting things to play with.

Many young women today misquote *It Takes a Village* in which H. Clinton says that if you take a baby from the worst environment and put them in the very best childcare center, then the IQ may be raised as much as 18 point. This may be true. She does not give citations. However, this scenario never happens. Poor children tend to go to poor daycares. Rich mothers think they MUST send their children to group care because group care is necessarily better. It is not. This claim never even said that. Now, on the contrary, Prof. Abraham of University of Chicago had a study some time just before 1983 that showed that middle class children tended to do better academically and otherwise if they stayed home with an educated mother. I have tried and cannot find that citation. But I did have that study. I remember having it in my hand and discussing it in 1983 with my ECD professor at Red Deer College. Studies since then consistently show that children in daycares are stressed out. Further, other studies consistently show that stress reduces learning and harms brains. So daycare is NOT the means to smarter babies!!!!!

We need to also talk about how to be smarter. How to stay smart. I see such a need for this. It breaks my heart. However, my daughter tells me that people are not walking around asking how they can be smarter. The intimation is that I am wasting my time trying to teach that. Is there no market? Maybe not; I see such bad judgement all around me. Complaining, and then blocking the very information that would be relief. Misjudgement about real authority. On and on. If you are one of the few, willing to swim against the stream, and want information on how to be smarter as an adult or senior citizen, let me know at info@greatshalom.org

The Government is Not a Village by Sharon Sarles: an orderly rebuttal of H. Clinton’s disorderly, ill-concieved book, It Takes a Village The retort, “No, it takes parents” is cute and makes people feel superior, but it doesn’t help a great deal. It certainly helps neither societal problems nor struggling parents.