MSG in our food

I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT SINCE SOME FOODS LIKE SOY SAUCE FOR INSTANCE ALMOST ALWAYS HAVE MSG IN IT YOU CAN BUY THE ORGANIC VERSION AND IT WILL NOT CONTAIN MSG AS IT IS ILLEGAL FOR ORGANIC FOOD TO CONTAIN MSG.  I KNOW AMAZON FOR ONE HAS ORGANIC SOY SAUCE.  

Boat Loads of MSG in McDonalds food. Are You Lovin It?

March 19th, 2009MikeLeave a commentGo to comments

Many Popular McDonalds food items contain MSG (free glutamate) from various sources.

A quick look at the McDonalds ingredient list on their website makes it absolutely clear to the MSG informed. McDonalds food contains MSG (free glutamate) in many of their most popular food items. Do you eat Chicken McNuggets or Premium Chicken Breast Strips because you think they may be healthier than other things at McDonalds? If you understand at all what MSG (free glutamate) does to your body (obesity), brain, endocrine system, then you’ll want to know what to stay away from food-wise. I can’t recommend people not eat at McDonalds at all because that’s not my place, but it’s fast food and you know it’s not health food. The list following are food items on the McDonalds menu that contain MSG (free glutamate) from various sources. The ingredients listed are known to contain or are typically suspected to contain MSG (free glutamic acid) unless noted otherwise. The underlined ingredients are huge give-aways and Always contain MSG (free glutamate/glutamic acid). Also see our list of Hidden Sources of MSG on Food Labels.

Big Mac® Sauce:

• Vegetable Protein (hydrolyzed corn, soy and wheat)

Chicken Selects® Premium Breast Strip:

• Seasoning (Autolyzed Yeast Extract, maltodextrin, chicken broth, natural flavor)

Grilled Chicken Breast Filet:

• Seasoning (maltodextrin, spices, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed (corn gluten, soy, wheat gluten), chicken broth, natural flavors

Southern Style Crispy Chicken Breast Filet:

• Yeast Extract, Carrageenan***, maltodextrin, natural flavors

Chicken McNuggets contain MSG (free glutamate).

French Fries

• Natural Beef Flavor CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK (Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients)

Chicken McNuggets®:

• Chicken Flavor (Autolyzed Yeast Extract, natural flavoring)

Barbeque Sauce:

• Soy Sauce

Sweet ‘N Sour Sauce:

• Soy Sauce

Creamy Ranch Sauce:

• Monosodium glutamate,

Yes the fries have MSG. It's beef flavoring that is hydrolyzed.

Chili Lime Tortilla Strips:

• Autolyzed Yeast Extract, maltodextrin, citric acid

Grilled Chicken Breast Filet:

• Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Hydrolyzed (corn gluten, soy, wheat gluten) proteins, chicken broth, natural flavors

Newman’s Own® Low Fat Family Recipe Italian Dressing:

• Hydrolyzed soy protein, citric acid

Sausage Patty:

• Whey protein concentrate, monosodium glutamate, citric acid, BHA and BHT** Note: BHA & BHT do not contain MSG but there are other health risks. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, consider BHA to be possibly carcinogenic to humans, and the State of California has listed it as a carcinogen. Some studies show the same cancer causing possibilities for BHT

Southern Style Chicken Sandwich has MSG (free glutamate)

Hash Browns:

• Natural Beef Flavor (wheat and milk derivatives) Note: Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.

Sausage & Scrambled Egg Mix:

• Monosodium Glutamate

Southern Style Crispy Breakfast Chicken Breast:

• Yeast Extract, carrageenan***, maltodextrin, natural flavor

MSG - Slowly
Poisoning America

5-1-4

 

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo, and spent years working for the government.   He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies.   No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with a chemical when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese They even have a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats" .   MSG?   I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the fridge.   MSG was in everything! The Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings, especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG had something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide MSG under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.   But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG. Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF, Chilis', Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG!   So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat? Is it a preservative or a vitamin?   Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of the food additive industry called The Slow Poisoning of America, (www.spofamerica.com ), he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body.   Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG at http://www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more. A study of elderly people showed that people eat more of the foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobby group says eating more benefits the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?   'Betcha can't eat just one', takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is concerned!   And we wonder why the nation is overweight? The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added.   Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance: NICOTINE for FOOD!   Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the prepackaged meals, soups, snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.   The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it's safe to eat in any amount.   How can they claim it is safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these?   The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of exercise in obesity. Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT, Ribeiro IA. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002   Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori RC, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug   Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of multiple risk factors. Iwase M, Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima   Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar   Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in suckling period and subsequent development of obesity. Tanaka K, Shimada M, Nakao K, Kusunoki Exp Neurol. 1978 Oct   Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS written in 1978. Both the medical research community and food "manufaturers" have known MSG's side effects for decades!   Many more studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes,   Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's.   But what can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see?   Even as you read this, George W. Bush and his corporate supporters are pushing a Bill through Congress. Called the "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the "Cheeseburger Bill", this sweeping law bans anyone from suing food manufacturers, sellers and distributors. Even if it comes out that they purposely added an addictive chemical to their foods. Read about it for yourself at: http://www.yahoo.com.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040311/ap_on_go_co/obesity_lawsuits_4   The Bill has already been rushed through the House of Representatives, and is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level. It is important that Bush and his corporate supporters get it through before the media lets everyone know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.   Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of the highest government health officials in Canada. While sitting in the Government office, the official told him "Sure I know how bad MSG is, I wouldn't touch the stuff!" But this top level government official refused to tell the public what he knew.   The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing legal issues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin.   So what do we do?   The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are paying the price for it.   Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused by an addictive food additive.   But what can I do about it? I'm just one voice, what can I do to stop the poisoning of our children, while guys like Bush are insuring financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us.     I for one am doing something about it.   I am sending this email out to everyone I know in an attempt to show you the truth that the corporate owned politicians and media won't tell you.   The best way you can help save yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic, is to forward this email to everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before Bush can pass the Bill protecting those who poisoned us.   The food industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry. Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like this in place before someone blew the whistle on Nicotine?   Blow the whistle on MSG.   If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us, and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the National Library of Medicine, at www.pubmed.com http://www.pubmed.com . Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear.   We do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve of food that makes us into a nation of obese, lethargic, addicted sheep, waiting for the slaughter.   With your help we can put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of America. Let's save our children   http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/FluoridePoisoning/message/1908

 

Hidden Sources Of MSG In Foods
From the book 'Excitotoxins - The Taste That Kills'
By Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD
3-6-3

What if someone were to tell you that a chemical (MSG) added to food could cause brain damage in your children, and that this chemical could effect how your children's nervous systems formed during development so that in later years they may have learning or emotional difficulties?   What if there was scientific evidence that these chemicals could permanently damage a critical part of the brain known to control hormones so that later in life your child might have endocrine problems? How would you feel?   Suppose evidence was presented to you strongly suggesting that the artificial sweetener in your diet soft drink may cause brain tumors to develop, and that the number of brain tumors reported since the introduction of this widespread introduction of this artificial sweetener has risen dramatically? Would that affect your decision to drink these products and especially to allow your children to drink them? What if you could be shown overwhelming evidence that one of the main ingredients in this sweetener (aspartate) could cause the same brain lesions as MSG? Would that affect your buying decisions?   And finally, what if it could be demonstrated that all of these types of chemicals, called excitotoxins, could possibly aggravate or even precipitate many of today's epidemic neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS, and Alzheimer's disease? Would you be concerned if you knew that these excitotoxin food additives are a particular risk if you have diabetes, or have ever had a stroke, brain injury, brain tumor, seizure, or have suffered from hypertension, meningitis, or viral encephalitis?   Would you also be upset to learn that many of the brain lesions caused by these products in your children are irreversible and can result from a SINGLE exposure of these products in sufficient concentration?   How would you feel when you learn the food industry hides and disguises these excitotoxin additives (MSG and Aspartate) so they can't be recognized? Incredulous? Enraged? The fact is many foods are labeled as having "No MSG" but in fact not only contain MSG but also are laced with other excitotoxins of equal potency and danger.   All of the above are true. And all of these well known brain toxins are poured into our food and drink by the thousands of tons to boost sales. These additives have NO OTHER purpose other than to enhance to TASTE of food and the SWEETNESS of various diet products.   Hidden Sources Of MSG As discussed previously, the glutamate (MSG) manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise the MSG added to food. Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins, aspartate and L-cystine, are frequently added to foods and according to FDA rules require NO LABELING AT ALL. * Food Additives that ALWAYS contain MSG *   Monosodium Glutamate Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Hydrolyzed Protein Hydrolyzed Plant Protein Plant Protein Extract Sodium Caseinate Calcium Caseinate Yeast Extract Textured Protein (Including TVP) Autolyzed Yeast Hydrolyzed Oat Flour Corn Oil     * Food Additives That FREQUENTLY Contain MSG *   Malt Extract Malt Flavoring Bouillon Broth Stock Flavoring Natural Flavors/Flavoring Natural Beef Or Chicken Flavoring Seasoning Spices   * Food Additives That MAY Contain MSG Or Excitotoxins *   Carrageenan Enzymes Soy Protein Concentrate Soy Protein Isolate Whey Protein Concentrate Also: Protease Enzymes of various sources can release excitotoxin amino acids from food proteins. Aspartame - An Intense Source Of Excitotoxins Aspartame is a sweetener made from two amino acids, phenylalanine and the excitotoxin aspartate. It should be avoided at all costs. Aspartame complaints accounts for approximately 70% of ALL complaints to the FDA. It is implicated in everything from blindness to headaches to convulsions. Sold under dozens of brand names such as NutraSweet and Equal, aspartame breaks down within 20 minutes at room temperature into several primary toxic and dangerous ingredients: 1. DKP (diketopiperazine) (When ingested, converts to a near duplicate of a powerful brain tumor causing agent) 2. Formic Acid (ant venom) 3. Formaldehyde (embalming fluid) 4. Methanol (causes blindness...extremely dangerous substance) Common Examples: Diet soft drinks, sugar free gums, sugar free Kool Aid, Crystal Light, childrens' medications, and thousands of other products claiming to be 'low calorie', 'diet', or 'sugar free'. A Final Note... Dr. Blaylock recounted a meeting with a senior executive in the food additive industry who told him point blank that these excitotoxins are going to be in our food no matter how many name changes are necessary...

These ALWAYS contain MSG:

• Glutamate
• Glutamic Acid
• Monosodium Glutamate
• Monopotassium Glutamate
• Yeast Extract
• Yeast Food
• Yeast Nutrient
• Autolyzed Yeast
• Autolyzed Yeast Extract
• Torula Yeast
• Autolyzed Soy Protein (any protein that is autolyzed)
• Hydrolyzed Protein (any protein that is hydrolyzed)
• Hydrolyzed Whey Protein
• Hydrolyzed Pea Protein
• Hydrolyzed Corn Protein
• Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten
• Calcium Caseinate
• Sodium Caseinate
• Textured Protein
• Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
• Natrium Glutamate (natrium is Latin/German for sodium)
• Gelatin

These OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:

• Carageenan
• Malt Extract
• Malt Flavoring
• Barley Malt
• Maltodextrin
• Citric Acid¹
• Soy Protein Isolate
• Soy Sauce
• Soy Sauce Extract
• Soy Protein
• Soy Protein Concentrate
• Bouillon
• Broth
• Stock
• Spices* (may contain between 30% to 60% MSG)
• Natural Beef Flavoring
• Natural Chicken Flavoring
• Natural Pork Flavoring
• Ultra-Pasteurized
• Whey Protein
• Whey Protein Isolate
• Whey Protein Concentrate
• Protein Fortified Anything
• Flavor(s) & Flavoring(s)* (may contain between 30% to 60% MSG)
• Natural Flavor(s) & Flavoring(s)* (may contain between 30% to 60% MSG)
• Pectin
• Protease
• Protease Enzymes
• Enzymes Anything
• Anything Enzyme Modified
• Anything Protein Fortified
• Anything Fermented
• Seasonings (the word “seasonings”)
• Fish Sauce²
• Fish Sauce Extract

1.)  Most of the “citric acid” used today is made from corn rather than from citrus fruits. “Citric acid” is produced by fermentation of crude sugars. When “citric acid” is produced from corn, manufacturers do not take the time or undertake the expense to remove all corn protein. During processing, the remaining protein is hydrolyzed, resulting in some processed free glutamic acid (MSG). “Citric acid” also interacts with any protein in the food to which it is added, freeing up more glutamic acid.

2.)  Some fish sauce manufacturers use cheaper techniques to cut the fermentation times very short and these techniques typically utilize MSG. Fish sauce typically takes 1 year to ferment properly and create a good quality sauce. This time is cut extremely short by some manufacturers that choose not to ferment the fish this long and instead add MSG to make up for poorer quality fish sauce.

Note: Soybean milk naturally contains a high content of glutamate. Kombu, miso, and soy sauce all contain MSG.

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Stop Vaccinating the dog so much!!!

READ THIS ARTICLE, I'VE BEEN READING UP ON DOG VACCINE'S THIS ONE IS WRITTEN SO EASY ANYONE CAN UNDERSTAND IT, IF YOU WANT A MORE INDEPT ONE WITH MORE FACTS AND DETAILS LET ME KNOW!  LET ME ASK YOU THIS TOO, WHAT ARE REALLY THE ODDS OF DUSTY, SHAKEY, OR RUFUS GETTING RABIES?  THINK ABOUT IT, FOR ONE NONE OF US HAVE EVER SEEN AN ANIMAL OUT HERE WITH RABIES TO GET IT FROM, AND FOR TWO WE WALK ARE DOGS ON A LEASH, SO HOW WOULD THEY EVER GET IT????  AND THERE IMMUNE FOR LIFE WITH ONE SHOT, THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, THAT IS A SCAM TO GET YOU IN THE VET OFFICE YEAR AFTER YEAR, OTHER WISE MOST PEOPLE WOULD NOT HAVE TO GO EVERY YEAR.  

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Joke

Here's a funny joke I came accross, that's so true!!


 TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when 
>> people are no longer interested?
>> HAROLD: A teacher

Welcome home Rufus!!

Above are new pics of Emilio and our new puppy Rufus.  Rufus is a mini schnauzer.  He is hypoallergenic, doesn't shed and wonderful!!  Welcome home Rufus, we love you!!  Also I added one old picture for fun!  Happy Valentines day everyone!!

A journey to unschool and free my son has began

I want to unschool and instead educate Emilio freely. I want him to be a free thinker and know he can do anything he desires to put his mind to.  I don't want him to conform to being what the school systems tell him he can or can't be, by telling him what he is and isn't capable of.  I don't want my son "graded", everyone has there own special abilities and talents and children can and will figure these out on there own.  When given the gift of free thinking a child will discover there own brilliant passions.




I would like to share with you a note I recently posted with the Northside Unschoolers :


Dear friends from the north side unschoolers, 01/29/2011 Saturday
My name is Cindy Jusino I am new to this area. I have a 14month old son, and although noone I have ever personally known has ever 
attempted this I want to "unschool" my child. I need your help to complete this dream. I have a beautiful vision I would love
to have help with. I want my son and any furture children to grow in the love of a "community". I am sick of living next to neighbors
I don't know, I am sad every time I pass someone on the street and say "hi" only to be given a "leave me alone, I don't know you look".
I want us to connnect with old people, young people, and every age inbetween people, we need there help and advice. 
We should not be raising our children alone and isolated. I want to have my children learn in an enviroment with mixed ages as 
we can and should learn from everyone and every experience. I don't want my child to be forced to learn to read or do math, or 
geometry or anyother subject by a certian age. If my child learns to read at age 10 but does it because he loves to and chooses to 
learn I believe he will benifit more then being forced to at say the age of 5. I want him to have freedom to choose what, when and 
how he wants to learn. I trust he will learn everything he needs to in his own time and in his own way. 

So I am writing this to ask for help. I know absolutly none of my neighbors, all my old friends live at least an hour and a half away,
due to a lack of community or at least one I don't see I feel totally alone. Perphaps you guys are already doing all this or know
people who are. If you are can we join you? If not are you or anyone you know intrested in this? My hope is to find others who have
children of all different ages and perphaps we can come together a couple times a week and have our children mix together and learn by
playing together. If they shall take an intrest in certain things we can provide the help for them to learn all they can. We can 
also pull together a community of differnt people who know different things to help. Example if our children take up an intrest in 
guitar maybe a retired guitar teacher that misses and loves teaching can be found. Even our own talents can be used, I am excellent 
at crafts and feel most at one with myself on long walks, maybe I could teach crafts and about nature life. My goal is to stay away
from strict subject teaching, I think things tend to flow into one anouther. For instance a child can be enjoying learning to play 
piano which uses a certian balance of math learning the beat and flow, which could lead to art as the beatiful flow of all of it. If
anyone out there is at all intrested in any of this please let me know. I would also just love to meet some people to hang out with 
even if our views on education may be a little different. Thanks, cindy atcindyjusino@ ymail.com




I have recieved awsome emails back, one of which lead me not only to a playgroup we are going to be joining, but to a school that supports most of the "vision"  I have.  Please check this school out at www.tallgrasssudbury.org and www.sudval.org .  Check out the videos in the links also.  They let the children decide when, what and how they want to learn.  They are free to go about as they please and are not forced to sit in a desk 8 hrs. a day.  They can even play outside on the school grounds whenever they want too.  The thing I wish was different was the whole sense of commuinty isn't exactly as I pictured it.  I think it would be nice if neighboors and parents participated more instead of just dropping our children off to be with others all day.  But it is a step closer and we are considering this school as a possiblility.  I am going to call them tomorrow to set a time we can go see it.  Anouther cool thing is children can come and go when they want the are open 9 am to 530 the only rule is they have to be there for at least 5 hrs. (I'm guessing that's a state requirement).




Also here is a psych 207 assisignment I recently had to do if you want to check it out:


Cindy Jusino/Urbanski

psych 207

       I really enjoyed one part of this chapter especially, since it applied so well to my life right now.  When Mr. Bronfenbrenner described  how systems unfold and connect all of us this seemed to speaking right to me.  Lately I have been trying to express the importance of a sense of community and how everything is connected.  My main focus right now is trying to help others to see how badly inneed of a change our school systems are.  I have been saying if we can create a exosystem that supports learning and discovery, and encourages it rather then opposes it it is the base to a beginning to a child that can learn on its own.

I believe to do this we must start at the microsystem and get everyone closest to a child more on board. Instead of separating the child for 8hrs a day 5 days a week from everyone and thing most familiar to the child why don't we include them!  Parents, neighbors and friends all have something they can contribute to a learning child.  For example maybe the neighbor is a retired piano teacher and would be able to teach the children to play.  Perhaps the parent is great at gardening and can show the children how to grow a garden and preserve vegetables.  Why are are children spending years of there life in a room with a complete stranger picking out what, when and how they should learn.  Then merging not knowing how to do basic things such as cook a full course meal.  

Another thing is the macrosystems put in place.  The school policies have all children with other children there age only.  This is not good for many reasons.  Think of how a baby learns to walk, they learn from wanting to do what they see other people doing.  This is true in all stages of life school just doesn't recognize it.  Children want so bad to be able to do what everyone does.  The trick is they have to do it in there own way and there own time.  These macrosystems set in place even say the children have to be confined to a desk all day.  Who would even want to learn then?  Lets stop forcing them to sit still and read what the macrosystem want them to read and when.  Lets let them pick what they want to read and when.  After all if one child reads at age 7 and another at 11 but at 15 they are both great readers and love to read is it really going to make a difference when they first started to read? No!  And since children learn what they live when they only have people near them there age they do the same in life, we live in a time when are old people are shut away, unimportant and worst of all unheard.  There is so much "old people" can teach us, wisdom they can teach us that only comes with the trial and error of life.

The rest of the chapter for me was a mostly a repeat of things I already knew.

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Anyways if any of this post in any way shape or form interests you, I beg you to read :  A call to Brilliance.  This book tells the story of a person that has lived my dream and vision of the perfect education.  Here is about the book:( This is a true story, I have a copy if you want to borrow it)

In an engaging memoir, award-winning educator, Resa Steindel Brown is drawn to the astonishing discovery that all children are born brilliant. With insightful commentary, she recalls her own trials as a student and teacher in our industrial, one-size-fits-all educational system. Then she encounters the needs of her young son. Finding a fit is like trying to stuff an odd-shaped child into a square hole. The love for her child propels her on a journey that sweeps her own children, and the children around her, into a learning environment driven by joy, exuberance and passion instead of heartbreak and defeat.
Unable to read until ages nine and ten, they entered college at eleven and twelve, became systems administrators, chief technology officers, trained with the Berlin Opera and Hamburg Ballet, created digital images used in the film "Lord of the Rings," presented software solutions to TRW, Pac Bell, Industrial Light & Magic, NSA, Sony, and more, all before the ages of eighteen.
The Call to Brilliance shows parents and educators how to redirect children's challenges into strengths, discover children's interests, fuel their interests into passions, and their passions into brilliance.

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Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!  I pray everone is safe and healthy all year too!!