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Carl Sommer’s Principles of Success

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Last week, we talked to Carl Sommer about his books for young children that teach character principles — like the mouse who discovered it was best to pay attention to what his mother said. This time he lost only his tail! And how the bear found his smile.

Mr. Sommer gave us a great discount of 25% this month for typing in the code “great.” This applies even to a subset of his books that have library binding that are already on sale for half price of …. get this… $4.95. We can’t be sure that there will be any of those books left. My librarian and preschool director friends have probably already snapped them up. So go right now.

All of the books are inexpensive for what they are and the 25% discount is great by itself. Be sure to peruse the whole website. You will find some free things. www.advancepublishing.com

In this episode, Mr. Sommer let out that he writes even more than is on www.advancepublishing.com. Advance Publishing specializes in character building books, in a variety of languages, that teach character principles and are acceptable to public schools in the USA. But there is more. He is part of a project that teaches math. He provides the practical lessons, so students understand that math really is needed in the real world. For math resources, all the way up to Trigonometry www.numbersuccess.com. This is suitable for public, private or homeschool educators.

Then, for specifically Christian content, especially success principles for youth, go to www.dovepublishers.com.

Finally, for the the ebook format for the Kindle or iPad, let us help you with direct links. For a fee ebook edition of Education in Crisis go here. And for Teen Success in ebook form, go here. Many of his books are online with various vendors, including his books on Electric Discharge Machining, even a book on sex for young people, and his book

that originally alerted me to his work.

Please let us know which books of his you like most below.

Grandmother Knows Best

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Humorous story of battle between doctor and grandmother over whether baby is eating. Well, baby continues to eat — and thrive. Baby, who was not expected to live, is catching up to normal expectations. Please hear this grandmother’s story and be encouraged about your child’s situation.

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Tip: Thank the doctor for his/her observation and expertise, but don’t let your faith be put down. Speak only life and faith where the little patient can hear. (Entirely different from refusing conversations from adult patients!) Patients who can’t talk, can still hear. Patients who can’t understand English can still understand tone. Doing everything for the health of the patient includes this — an the most modern doctors now accede that research supports the positive impact of faith and family.

Anybody have some amusing stories about dealing with medical people?

Oh, promised this:

Boy is Cured of “Developmental Delay” and “Dysgraphia” by Innovative Education

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Here is my experience of working with my grandchildren. Primarily I want to talk to you about one what was 3 and 4 at the time. At 3 he was not talking. He was diagnosed then as “developmental delay” exactly what would have been called “retarded” when I was younger. I worked with him and he started talking when he was three. When he was four I was homeschooling him and his older brother. I helped him hold a pencil and learn basics. He went into school and no one ever knew he ever had any kind of diagnosis. Hear all about it.

This testimony is so very important because most people just give up when they are given a diagnosis. They allow it to become a death knell or an excuse, rather than guidance for how to better educate.

Seeking the right solutions for your child is a kind of faith, just as much as prayer and confessions! It is faith with legs moving! If you were believing for more income, would you remain in your chair or look for a job or ways to expand your business? Similarly with health and education success, faith is grasping what is available. Don’t let diagnoses be demonic prophecies! Let it be guidance for what problems to solve and how to solve them. Fix problems, not blame and not labels!

Btw, this child is now 14 and flying Black Hawk helicopters (on flight simulator software) with great skill. He plays football. He beat me at Monopoly. His only problem in school is that he is… well a typical boy of 14. Notice: NOT RETARDED!

Please subscribe to The Great Shalom and be encouraged to believe for your children’s health and healing.

How Important is Your Work? Opposition Demonstrates Importance [Encouragin]

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Below is the latest post from the Christian Montessori Group. I found it so encouraging, that I thought I would share it with you. --Sharon

While the privilege of working in Christian Montessori brings reward more
than we imagined, it also brings challenges more than we bargained for.
When you embark on the ministry of Montessori (everything is a ministry if
you are doing it for God) you enter into a spiritual realm and a spiritual
arena. In this arena are competing philosophies, dimensions and realities.
When you seek to do God’s work there are antagonistic forces lined up
against you. Without being melodramatic (but real) there is an enemy of our
souls and of the precious lives that we are seeking to nurture. When things
go wrong (and they do); when days go bad (and they do); when things are
harder than they need to be – there is opposition to the eternal work
that flows out of a Christian Montessori environment.

Are you that important? Is your work that important that you merit
opposition and resistance to the spiritual labor that you are performing?
To the degree of opposition is the degree of importance. God looks at these
precious children (some days only He can see their preciousness) knowing
their eternal value and He trusts us to help them along the way. The world
really puts little value on children – they don’t vote, bring home
paychecks, cure cancer or build monuments, yet, there is something so
precious about them and their faith that God bends His ear to hear their
prayers, to instruct their angels to guard them and to put us in their life
for the brief time He allows us to help guide, protect, instruct, train and
nurture them.

If there are extreme challenges and difficulties in the ministry it is
because we are fighting a great battle in the heavenlies for the lives and
souls of these children. It may be more than we bargained for but it is an
eternal bargain for which God has every confidence in us. The greater the
battle - the greater the victory. The greater the opposition – the
greater the importance. It may be more than we bargained for but a small
price to pay “to bring many to glory.” Heb. 2:10