The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Problems

Today I will give you tips on how to choose childcare. I start with a hair-raising story from when I was 16 and started working in a nursery. The point was that parents never walked through the school to see what was happening. Do that. Today, there are regulations and a website with any violations. Check that. Check their policies on vaccines and accidents. Then go see it. Look for space, toys, books, cleanliness. Check out my stories. They will give you some clue. Think about whether you need

Yes, God wants to heal us. Including our children. Including that which has to do with learning and academics. Isaiah 53 talks about healing. Matthew 8:16 talks about Jesus healing. It is cleer Jesus cared about children, not just adults. And then Peter, direct disciple and respected apostle also talks about healing in 2Pet 2:24. Don't doubt. Just go after it. The biggest problem for healing of children is that so few adults think to ask about it. This episode is part of a multi-part series on w

Okay, yes, academic success is not the highest goal ever. That is not what life is about. But it is helpful. And no point denying that. And God cares. Every child in our society should be able to learn, to read, to calculate. It is harder than ever. It is harder than ever to find good instruction. And children have more problems than ever. Well, God cares. God IS interested in Academic success. Here is a little talk about that. After that, I encourage you to have a chat with God about it. God ha

Can I legally homeschool in my state? The people who can help you in any state is the Homeschool Legal Defense Association. Several years ago a representative attorney and founder of HSLDA called into the radio studio and told how he and others started HSLDA precisely because they realized that they needed to homeschool their children because of "learning disabilities." These lawyers wanted good education for their children. They realized they could not get it from the government schools. They d

Labeling is a scientifically proven and powerful dynamic. Children live down to the labels that adults around given them. Teachers may even know this. However, schools, along with psychological professionals are the worst offenders. Who ever said that your child could not learn? But they did say the child was learning disabled. And studies in the 1990s showed that most teachers thought LD meant mentally retarded. We are not permitted to say MR today. But we say worse things. And that matters. On

Dani Johnson, multi-level marketing expert, talked with us back in 2009 about grooming children for success. Wow! I had no idea how that work "grooming" would play years later. However, parenting is still pretty much the same. Dani and her husband have trained many many sales people in their organization. One way they do that is by giving them "scripts" or what I call "verbatims" -- to tell people what to say. That was my favorite part of the book. She tells us as parents how to say things to ou