and drink coke
and eat donuts

and watch fiction
instead of building their own lives

...........................TRAINING UP YOUR CHILD

A wall of righteousness

Foundations
stone by stone
rebuild
beautifully
clearly
large
true

Vision
a people without a vision perish

Reach not for things too high,
think not higher of yourself than you ought

Humility, discipline, obedience study these words

Learn the letters from a to z
learn the combinations of those letters
and how they fit and why

Words are combinations of letters
Start with pure words, from scripture.
study the root and original use of pure words
from the Hebrew and Greek, (you can use a computer program to do this.)

Examples of a few key words for study
mercy
love
God
law

Avoid foolish questions.
Turn away from fools

Discipline
Yoke
Obedience

Recognition of accomplishment for
letters from a to z
combinations of letters
basic words

Reading certain books
Of the writing of books there is no end.
Spend your time with the good books in due order.
There's no time for all books, so be selective, choose the best.

You are responsible for your choices.
Each choice has a consequence.

Jesus is your sure foundation.
His Spirit will guide you into all truth.

References:
Isaiah 28:16 Jesus is your sure foundation.
Isaiah 28:17 judgment and righteousness , plumbline
Amos 7:7,8 building a wall of righteousness with a plumbline

Psalm 25:5 lead me in Thy truth and teach me

John 16:13 Spirit of Truth lead you into all truth

Daniel 9:25 rebuilding the wall, even in troubled times

August 4, 2003 Outland, 1981 Sean Connery,
shows corporate willingness to use people as slave labor
with chains of alcohol, drugs, sex, and ignorance.
Compare with Brave New World.
Look around.
True knowlege has been displaced with the multitudes of increasing facts of insignificant knowledge.
Ignorance is the strongest and now the most common chain. Weakness is not the strongest chain.

Expectations of good progress
instead of funny ha, ha , sillininess and entertainment

They can focus instead of just absorb by osmosis while being entertained.

bible
light and the glory
machiavelli, the prince
us christian history
brave men and great captains
abc
1x1=1
word builders
foundational concepts
money
food
water
work
health requires food, attitude, work, sleep, drug free
scales, balance,
plumb line
deception
truth, God's word is true

There's not so many things important to teach
Do the foundations, those are important.
And do them in the foundational areas of life.
God, food, health, marriage, raising children, teaching and training.
Due order
Not confusion
see writings on teaching tips from scripture.
Do these things and your child will be more than able to do well on learning any necessary details for the tests at school.
But if you omit these things, the child will feel like he is chasing more leaves than he can catch.
The child who sees the root and the seed, the trunk, branches and twigs will not be intimidated by the many disconnected leaves blowing in the wind.
Note: The idea of disconnected leaves in previous statement reflects the disjointed test questions to which the schools teach for TASS and other tests.

Superintendents and heads of dept's and classroom teachers over the last decade have said to me on various occassions that they have no time for the foundations because they have so much current and recent stuff they're required to teach. That means they either lack appreciation for foundations or they prefer to go with the flow instead of standing for their convictions. What flow?
Well, the flow of gov. money to the system and their paycheck. The kids suffer from missing foundations, but the paychecks and raises keep coming to the superintendents who go with the flow of federal guidelines.

The new and recent fed guidelines for the last decade did not originate in the USA. Rather in the UN and UNESCO and Hillary Clinton brought it to the US through her education initiative that began in the state of Washington and wyoming and since spread to all 50 states during the clinton reign of destruction on the public education system.

The System now has a school to work plan which counts students as raw material, and parents as providers of that raw material, to prepare them for the work force. Not as thinkers, but as happy, contented, go along to get along, co-workers. Guidelines have been published to avoid the students getting any strong ideas on any subjects, just passs the tests, and accept all ideas as equal. That is not what George Washington wanted, nor Noah Webster. America's first schoolmaster and her first honored president would have drawn their swords over what is being fed to the children today.

You would think, after all these years of teaching algebra, the SYSTEM would give students thorough step-by-step examples in problem solving; but alas, the examples in today's texts are fewer and less quality than 50 years ago.

I could go into the same comparisons for reading material offered to students.

And how about reading ability? Vocabulary and reading rate has decreased since 1961. Trash reading has increased.

Who cares? I do.

kids need beautiful truth, butter and honey, wisdom and golden light

they respond to a good yoke showing them and leading them in disciplining their mind.

much better than the world's way of trying to make everything "fun". No, make it all beautiful and worth paying a price from their mind, the price of diligence and effort, focus, and work,... so they can learn to love their work and work their love.

God commanded us to choose life and not death

This life is a choosing ground for eternity.
Your choices now are about truth and following it or not.

Secondarily, by truth, you can gain the $40K a year job instead of the $4/hr job even if you don't believe in God
Seed reproduction is faithful to the unbeliever as well as the believer. Truth works whether you believe in it or not.
If you just follow it.
Follow the light while you have the light.

Love the Truth
many destroyed because they received not love of the truth

Desire yourself in God's word more than a deer pants for water in a desert.

Delight in truth more than silver and gold

Workman that need not be ashamed,
rightly dividing truth.

Isaiah SEE KNOW CONSIDER UNDERSTAND

write it plain and large so a man may run that reads it ???
write it beautifully and wonderfully, and consistently
according to the pattern

see that you build it according to the pattern

a sure foundation
Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation..... a stone, tested, and sure... he that believes shall not make haste
(take time to lay a large,plain, clear, beautiful, foundation)

what goes in crooked, cramped, comes out the same
what goes in without association, floats around

show joints , connect the parts, Ezekiels valley dry bones

abc's
numbers
word foundations

Psalms and Proverbs

godly stories

entertainment is like a drug, addictive, and insatiable for those who love it

work is sober and like living without coffee and speed
work at learning, don't expect to be entertained and get it by osmoses

silliness and wiggleness, avoid, flee

There is a time for work and a time for play.

obedience is better than sacrifice,
do what the teacher says instead of giving your own sacrifice, ie what you want to do instead of obeying...

A long time ago, when I was a high school student some of my teachers talked with me about changes in the way things were done.

They told me about progressive education which began happening during their life-time (This website shows the influence of John Dewey on education)

They asked me about absolutes. Well, I was a smart guy, I had read the paper back of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, so I told them everything was relative. They were dismayed. My words saddened them.

I didn't understand.

Mrs. Sorenson told us about Brave New World and 1984 and how she had seen it happening in her life time. She did her best to explain to us, but we had not been prepared for the things she was telling us. So like a new rain on hard dry ground, most of it washed off instead of soaking in.

But some of it stuck. Some of it made it through the first few layers of my mind. And stuck with me and took root and grew for the rest of my life.

Only a handful of us students talked much about it. Mostly we got in bad favor with other parents for talking about it. It was not the normal topic of conversation for sons and daughters of professors and employes of Texas A&M University attending A&M Consolidated High School.

Neither has it been the socially accepted subject of conversation anywhere public during all these forty plus years.

The sequel to brave new world came out just a few years later, Brave New World Re-Visited, by the same author, in which he spelled out how we were already there.

Now what are the key ingredients of BNW?
1. A dumbed down population.
2. Re-written historical explanations
3. Omissions of certain old truths from text-books
4. Contented people filling their time with work, drugs, sex, booze, and media-entertainment
5. Conventional proverbs unrecognized by the general population as part of their speech patterns to keep them from thinking.

At the time of World War One, a european asked the leaders, Why fight? Just give me the children to a school of your way of thinking, and in twenty years, you can have whatever you want. Don't fight with guns and bayonetts, just win the battle for the classroom and teach it your way.

Stalin knew this and so demonstrated with his state schools and state day-care. Hitler too.

But do you think the American public knows it. Of course not, it's too important for them to know. Whoever is deciding content for our schools has seen to it such important info is omitted so long till it is forgotten and the people who knew it have died off.

Well, we're now into the fourth or fifth decade of raising children by parents who were raised on tv, controlled mass-media for the dumbing down of America.

The key concepts are nearly totally eclipsed by the new history and sociology and pyschology and mass-marketing. Have you ever seen a university level text on psychology of mass-marketing. They've got that down to a science. Do you honestly believe it's an accident such important information as mass-social-engineering is omitted from consideration in the books given our young students?

Don't let them or their parents learn what we're trying to do, they might opt out of the system. Those words were in a WFISD guide writen by Dr. Carnine in the early nineties.
Not directly, but indirectly through a machiavellan quote and the context of that quote. It was during a time when school leaders around the state where hiding the facts of OBE flooding into our schools.

The Conroe Courier printed letters from parents calling their superintendent a liar, but no such letters got to Wichita Falls. Montgomery county cleaned house, firing 95% of the existing personel to get rid of the infection. But it only worked for awhile, because the entire state was flooded with more and more federal money backing the growing changes put out through the Clintons.

Clintons gave away our missile guidance system to the Chinese communist government who has more missiles aimed directly at us now. Clinton's instigated the New World Education Plan in America, and it has spread into all fifty states. Of course it is not known as that name, NWEP, but the theme can be documented from as far back as 1988 with Clinton involvement.
For which, see www.eagleforum.org and search for the Dear Hillary Letter.

PICTURES TO GIVE CHILDREN

of a seed growing

of a man working a field diligently
to present the idea of diligence,
not skipping a row
during a long hot hard day
going steadily from one end all the way thoroughly to the other, as you reap the harvest, a man with a scythe in a wheat field gives this a good action illustration,
and can show the tempation to not be thorough, but to skip some and thus get to the end quicker....

a picture of a wall, a foundation, a house built straight and true to the plumb line, and a house built crooked that eventually topples over, leaning tower falls if built any higher

stone by stone the wall is built, it's not pre-fab

put labels on the stones

Paul wrote, that he had laid the foundation
and forewarned us not to build with wood, hay,and stubble but with good things, enduring, that can withstand the tests

What we should be doing for our children Deut 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home
and when you walk along the road,
when you lie down
and when you get up.
Tie them as symbols on your hands
and bind them on your foreheads.
Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates.

Operational definition of the womb:
takes away everything that destroys life
at the mother's expense
and provides everything necessary for life ( and growth)

This same word, racham, also used later for the concept of mercy. We live and grow by His mercy.

The mercy lid on the ark of the covenant.
through which we enter to see
the law which leads us to repentance (tablets of the law)
the new life, resurrection and new life (Aaron's rod that budded)
the provision of God (golden pot of manna)

Mercy is more than forgiveness.
His mercy is over all His works

In His mercy He forgave us
and gave us new life, even eternal life
and provided for us and still does

His mercy covers it all

The same word for womb, racham, is first used for mercy in 2nd Samuel 24:14

The first use of the English word merciful found in the KJV
is in Gen 19:16 with the concept for "to spare" when justice would say to kill or punish.
The Hebrew word here is H2551 chemlah, to spare
so this concept is not nearly so large as is later developed in the word mercies referring to God's many mercies and ways of mercy when the word racham is first translated from Hebrew into English as "mercies" in 2 Sam 24:14

The womb root for mercy is developed to cover the whole concept of mercy, ...... when people understand this
they will have sound reason for more faith in His mercy toward them, and thereby will be more able to grow, by faith in His mercies instead of their own efforts....

Contact me at larry@christianparents.com