The Window is Closing on College Applications for September

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The Window is Closing on College Applications for September. Those really up on it started the application process in October of the senior year. For those who did not, it is time now. For those who did, it is time now to apply for scholarships. Most scholarships will want to see the parents’ tax return, and so today is the day to start (assuming your tax return was filed on time.)

Is college important? Certain credentials are important in the world of work. Others are not. Choose carefully. For those many students who just do not know their calling, I do have a Destiny Discovery seminar, intended for juniors in Christian high schools, but that could be administered to an individual. See www.info@orgstrat.net It is a whole lot cheap to pay for help in hearing reasonable vocational plan than sending a student to college only to have changes in majors, and thus wasted time and money. Good advising also helps. The journey thru the credentials can be made faster and more secure; and college “advisors” sometime don’t advise at all, and even in colleges where they might, they are not primarily focused on the same things that the student or parents would focus on: quick, frugal, and remunerative passage thru school

Isn’t college just silly? More of less and less? Just ideological indoctrination. No, not unless you want it to be. Every course have information about it, as does every professor. Choose the school for its philosophy and choose the course of study — and choose individual classes and sections that will help the most. In Texas every course must have a summarized syllabus within one click of the college homepage. Every accredited school will have a course catalog. What you get depends upon what you choose.

There are colleges that specialize in every flavor of Christianity (altho nearly every one is more liberal than the grandparent generation of the same denomination.) There are colleges that specialize in conservative political views. There are colleges that are free (usually to residents of the state and/or for some work.) Every college has some scholarships and work/study arrangement. There are libraries of scholarships at every school. Do your own research — or pay someone who already has.

Homeschoolers are probably thinking about curricular choices now, even if they don’t buy until the summer. People should definitely be checking out private schools now, if that is the route they want to go. www.powerlearningcenters. If you are a homeschool grandmother, sad that your teaching days are over — contact me, but first, take a look at www.teachachildchangeanation.org

Study Skill Help?

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At this time of the semester, it is a mad dash to make a grade. So, this is the time highschoolers and college students turn to tutors for help. Well, this book might help. Of course, learning personalized study skills at or before the term would make the whole term go easier. https://www.lulu.com/shop/sharon-sarles/how-to-win-the-game-of-school/paperback/product-1v85djg2.html?q=How+to+win+the+game+of+school&page=1&pageSize=4

How to Have a Smarter Baby

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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.

Passover Freedom and Liberty

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This year, in honor of Resurrection Sunday, I am picking up themes from the Passover. Yes, God passes over us, while He judges wickedness. Yes, we passover from darkness to light. But have we thought enough about passing over from slavery to freedom to liberty?

God sums up the Passover story in Exodus 20:2 as “I took you out of the house of slavery.” Let’s think about that.

Freedom is freedom from. Yes, we have freedom from sin. (Even if some Christians deny it. None of us use that freedom to fullest extent.) But realize, please that liberty is greater. Liberty is freedom instantiated with discipline. So it becomes not just personal spiritual freedom but civil liberty.

Here is a basic gospel point. Here is a basic Civic point. Here is true freedom: liberty. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Let us think on this this holiday season, and this year — especially this year as we celebrate the founding of our nation.

The passover is our primarly, singular, most important key to our liberty in Christ that we celebrate once again on Resurrection Sunday.