(My precious children trying to come up with their own tune for a scripture passage)

Ladies do you teach your babies and your children scripture? Do you fill them up all day long with the wonderful Word of God? Filling our children up with the Word of God on a regular basis is so easy to do it is the most beneficial thing you could ever do for them! It hides the word in their heart from a very early age.

Ps 119:11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

From when my babies are in the womb they hear scriptures that I play to music or they just hear it being read off in the far distance From the day my babies are born I always put them down for a nap to scripture songs softly playing in the background of their rooms or within my arms. At bedtime in the evening I put them to sleep with Sometimes I play the dramatized version for them when they are young but most of the time I play the read only version for the real little ones. (This is just to ensure that they the bible being read quietly on CD within the womb. or on tape by Alexander Scourby. Buying the scriptures on tape or CD will be one of the very best investments you will ever make. won’t possibly get scared from the drama sounds on it)

At the breakfast table I teach my children scripture (I am not musically inclined ladies so it is not like you need skill to be able to do this!) If I can do it anybody can! The babies are right there along side us so you would be amazed at just how young they are when you begin hearing them join in. Their sweet little voices jump right in on singing the scripture verses that you were already singing or reciting with your older children. My children have all learned the 23^rd Psalm, and were able to sing it with us as a group, before the age of 2 yrs old. There are places that do sell bible passages already put to music for you. So if you decided to buy these tapes that are already pre-made, then the job is already half done for you. Our family has all learned I Corinthians 13 together as a family from a company that had it already put to music for us. But I must admit that I do still personally find it enjoyable and special to still make up my own tunes whenever possible. Take a moment mothers to watch your children giggle as they watch you try to make a tune that is catchy, one that is sure to flow just right and one that also must be remembered. Then the next day comes and you are all giggling trying out many different songs as you try to figure out which one it was that you decided on. Then you finally remember and you are back on track ready to sing those scriptures to the tune you have chosen. It is a total memory builder mom. It is a family time, a fun time, a memorable time, a learning time and a time they are taking the Word of God and placing it right in their hearts! You are giving them the gift of life mothers! You are such a precious mother!

There are so many creative ways to teach and learn scripture ladies. When you take the time to teach your children the scriptures from the very first day they can hear from in the womb and from the very first moment that they are born into the world that is such a precious, precious gift that you are giving them! They will always remember verses whenever they find themselves in any situation. But most of all they will always be able to fall back onto scripture in times of crisis. Gods Words will have always been a part of their daily life. How could they just dismiss it in times of need and in times of praise? You are filling those children with our Heavenly Fathers ways. They are learning Gods ways and how God wants things done. By giving them this mothers you are giving them a gift they will treasure for a lifetime! Gods word will never return void ladies, did you know that dear sweet mothers? He promises us in His Word hat His Words will never return void. What an awesome promise to hold onto.

Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Steve Green has the Hide Em’ in Your Heart Vol -1 and Vol- 2 (audiocassettes, CD's and videos) that are great for children to learn scripture to songs. If and when I may put on a video for my children it is always a video like Steve Green, where they are learning scriptures or I will put on a creation video that teaches them about creation instead of evolution (which is usually always filled with scriptures also) The Moody Science Videos are great for what I just mentioned. Valiant Music also has some very beautiful soft, scriptures put to music by his lovely wife. He sells these by tapes and CD’s I believe. He will send you a sample CD to try and it is so very sweet. Very soft and gentle, I just absolutely love it. If you are interested in it at all email me and I will get the information on how to obtain it to you. Here is a good opportunity/memory builder to make up your own home video with the children learning and singing scriptures with you or with each other. Mothers please do be sure that they have lots of fun but also be sure that they keep it respectful because we are talking about Gods Word here ladies and I think it is good to teach our children yes have fun but be sure you are always respecting our Heavenly Father in the process! Making a video like that would be great fun and it would probably become their most favorite video to watch or their favorite audio cassette to listen to. Why not mothers, they know all the stars in the movie personally and so they feel very important, LOL. But remember anything over 30 minutes stifles creativity so remember to keep their video watching limited. But if they are making the video then time is not an issue. Making the video can be very creative and fun while still singing and reciting the Word of God. Who knows they may do such an awesome job that others may want to buy their finished product. When you are immersed in the Word of God you just never know where He is going to take you. What adventure He may have in store for you! My children love to take their tape recorders and just record what is happening around them at that time. They do this as their fun and creative time. It is fun to go back and listen to what people were talking about scripture wise and to hear the scripture verses and songs that were being recited or sung during the time it was being recorded. So that is another way to get the scriptures being listened to on tape also.

Mothers there are so many ways to be creative in teaching the scriptures to our children. It never has to be boring for them or for you! When you tell them stories read to them straight out of the bible. Don’t sugar coat the word with storybooks. Make the bible exciting with the way you read it. Add emphasis on it, change your voice when you are speaking for different people, add sound effects! Children love for their stories to come alive for them when listening to them. What better story to read to them then the Word of God! Do it with excitement and it will be their favorite storybook ever? Memorize scriptures with them! Give everybody stickers for every verse they remember. Review all the verses you all learn. If you don’t review them they may tend to forget them! You want to keep the Word alive in their hearts always! You want to say them over and over again so that it is hidden in their hearts, so that they may not sin against Him. Play the scriptures on tape all day long in the background. In this new house we moved into there is an intercom system. I just love this intercom I am then able to play scriptures being read and scriptures put to music throughout the house all day long in the background. Before being able to do that I had a tape/cd player in each and every room so I could accomplish my task that way. Find what works for you mother and then go with it. Go to God, He would love more than anything to see your family memorize His word daily especially as a family group. So seek Him on what is the best way to do so! If money is tight He can find a way! Faith living is the best lessons for children to learn anyway! There are many creative ways out there to come up with mom. You are creative just like our creator! I have scripture tapes that I bring into the car. We listen to the bible being read as we drive just sitting in the car instead of sitting doing nothing or wasting time. Not only are you all being fed the Word of God ladies but what better habits can you instill into your children then to teach that you and your husband have and do read the Word of God on a daily basis too. This is a family thing tradition!

My husband has set the rule that our children are not allowed to listen to anything on audio tape that is entertaining (also a side note that the stuff we have that is entertaining is always educational in character or in academics) until we know that they have heard at least a solid hour of scripture listening. (That means truly listening and not just it playing in the background) If later on that day they may ask to listen to more audio tapes (like Jonathon Parks which are adventurous audio tapes learning about creation) my husband knows these are good wholesome learning tapes but he also knows that the Word of God is way more important and so that is what we want to instill, teach and train into our children. So he has another rule that whatever our children hear audio stuff that is fun they must hear twice the amount of scripture tapes (they usually like listening to the dramatized version) before they can hear anymore entertaining stuff. If we feel they are getting excessive in wanting to hear their audio fun stuff we put a halt to it right away. We remind them that their day belongs to God and God should be given their time. If they are wanting to entertain themselves all the time then anything in excess we see as bad and we make them take a break from it for a while so they learn how to keep and stay in control. The only thing I would say children cannot ever get too much of is the Word of God. They can hear that all day as it is being read in dramatized form word for word out of the bible and they will love it but it will never in anyway harm them. Scriptures to songs will never harm them either. It also helps those who have a hard time reading for the reading is done with them. It benefits everybody! When we fill our children’s days and life with Scripture what more can we ask for. We can pray that the scripture will take hold in their hearts and that it is planting seeds of character and seeds of relation with our Lord and Saviour. We can also only pray that those seeds will grow and help ensure that our children will always want to serve their Lord. We make it a point to show our children that we put a huge priority on reading/hearing Gods word. Without it we are dead. So go ahead mothers fill them up! You can never go wrong! Trust me from a mother who knows first hand!

We have learned the 10 Commandments as a family too. We learned them together while sitting and eating at the breakfast table or at the dinner table. The children have so much fun and they love it when they can finally recite all 10 without any help! Mothers don’t deprive your children of learning the Word of God. Be creative and let them hear it and learn it all day. If you cannot afford to buy it already on tape then make your own version. You read the scriptures on tape everyday and build your own library that each child listens to on a daily basis. Add drama to your tapes and make it fun and exciting. Let your children hear the tapes throughout the day. If you are musically inclined then you are ahead of me and have an advantage a lot of us don’t have. So pull out your guitar or sit at your piano and put those scriptures to songs for your precious children to learn with you! If you find you have a great product to share, put a price tag on it, give your home business a name and make your family business into something your family can grow together in and you can do it together and run the business together and all of us unskilled unmusical people will be waiting for you to put together a product we can purchase and use. The bible is big and it would be fun to read trough it in a year as a family. The funniest way to get through the bible would be to sing your way through it. Song just helps us retain words in our memory that much better than if we had no music along with the words. Who knows maybe I will work on doing something like that myself. If any of you get a product let me. I would be very interested.

Well ladies lets get creative. Find a way to get those scriptures flowing into the lives of your children. You could do scripture flash cards, how about trivial pursuit for the bible, there are so many fun ways. Dearest Mothers, you can do this if you truly want it. When you see your children hunger for it you will then see that you NEED to keep doing this. They are hungering for it because God has put that hunger into us, it is up to us to feed that hunger and spark it up and be all we were created to be! Come on ladies this will be fun! Get the bible read in a year and do it while you sing it! Now get up and go sing some scriptures to your children! What a blessings you have laid upon them!

Thankful Eater???? or Picky Eater???? (Repost)

Diets and Defiance......(Repost)

I had a few people ask me about this post so instead of having them go and try to find it I figured I would repost it.  When I repost things from the archives it is usually because someone has been asking me questions.  Also the ages of my children and the length of my health quest is about 2-1/2 years longer than stated in this post.  Hope this helps................

Dearest mothers do you struggle with your child’s behavior a little too often?  Do you find your child is wild, hyper, and even out of control at times?  Does your child/children do things that leave you scratching your head one too many times?  Has any or many of your child been diagnosed with ADD?  ADHD?   Do you find your child gets sick a lot?  Do you find your babies and young ones tend to get frequent ear infections?  If you answered yes to any even just one of these questions may I tell you dearest mothers you need not despair!  There is hope and there is a good way to help your child become calmer, focused and rarely sick.

So many mothers are rarely educated on diets and how foods affect our family especially our children.   So many foods today have dyes, chemicals, sugars, preservatives and so on.  Ladies please allow me to share that these things are very harmful to our child’s pure and innocent bodies.  We have  no idea just how much we are flooding their bodies with impurities that their little bodies have a hard time getting rid of.    Mothers the most common way we see this overload is in behavior or our children getting sick frequently.  No mother wants to see her precious children sick! I know this first hand.  So will you allow me to share some things with you precious mothers?  Things that can help you nurture your family to health?

Will you allow me to share a story with you dear ladies?  Many, many years ago the Lord turned my whole world upside down and inside out.  He changed my life dramatically in so many ways!  I think the Lord knew that I was the type of person if I was going to change it would have to be 100%.  So He took me on a journey and showed me many things regarding child training, food and health.  I was inundated with so many new things but I was so inspired and renewed through it all.   My oldest ds was the typical child with frequent ear infections, sore throats, pneumonias, skin rashes, hyper, diagnosed with ADD and so on.   I just dealt with it and gave him antibiotics whenever he needed them and I just waited for the ear infection or sickness to pass until the next time. Well by my second ds I was getting a little concerned about all the things that were happening with him.  It was a replay of my first ds but some things seemed even worse.  He had frequent ear infections, strep throat was a regular occurrence about every 2 months, he had a regular eye infection, skin rashes, he was also diagnosed with ADD and the list went on.  I wanted the doctors to tell me why he was getting strep throat every 2 months but all they could do was tell me to give him antibiotics every time it infected him and to just wait for it to clear up.  I guess by this point I was not willing to accept that answer any more ladies.   Mothers can you relate to the fact that I wanted answers!  So I was on a quest.  I sought the Lord and He led me down a challenging path.  The first thing He told me was to figure out food sensitivities.  Now children will be tested for allergies and come up negative. We had my oldest ds allergy tested and everything came up negative.  But I knew he had food problems.  So the first clue I felt the Lord gave me was what did my children crave the most?  What happens to drug addicts, alcoholics and smokers when their body has something that is not good for it?  They crave their addictions.  So I took what my two ds craved the most and I decided to eliminate those things from their diets.  (It was hard on them at first ladies I will not lie and tell you otherwise but I knew it had to be done and they understood this.  Explain to your children dear ladies.  Help them understand you are doing this to help them feel better.  By doing so you are teaching them how to take hold of their own health at a very young age!)  Within weeks their rashes cleared up.  My second ds eye infections were non-existent!   Mothers I was intrigued to say the least.  I wanted to know even more.  So I began looking into foods and how to eat them in their whole form.  So we began whole food eating.  What a difference ladies!  I cannot tell you how many things changed.  The strep throat stopped occurring completely, here it is over 9 ½ years later, and it has never reoccurred again.   Even all other sickness was minimal if anything at all and the behaviors were completely mellow, calm no more wild hyper crazy behavior.  Life was completely new and different from how we knew it ladies!

So I bought a wheat grinder! There are inexpensive grinders out there ladies but if you cannot afford one you can usually buy inexpensive ground whole-wheat flour from health food stores but be sure it is fresh or it can be rancid if it has been sitting on the shelf for too long.  Or you can find a friends house to go to who has a grinder that you can go grind together that is what I did for my friends.  You can also use a coffee grinder.  This takes much longer but works wonderfully if you grind the wheat to the finest powder.  Dear ladies please do remember that where there is a will there is a way.  Remember to let the Lord help and guide you to where you will find all of what you will need to accomplish the task I believe He would want you to do.    Anyway we began grinding our own wheat to make bread, we ate whole grains instead of refined ones.  (Ladies I know this would be hard for many people who grew up on white bread. But I have some of the best recipes that you wouldn’t even know they were Whole Wheat!)   I have shared them with many women and they have all said the same thing.  They are recipes their families loved.  Dear mothers May I suggest to you that you at least try these things before deciding you won’t like them?  Go to my archives and read my posting on “Thankful or Picky Eater?”  (Posted back in 2005, if you have trouble finding it I can repost it upon request.)  It will help you understand why it is good to at least try things especially when it comes to teaching and training our children how and what to eat!  Dear ladies I think we forget at times that our bodies belong to God. I think He would want us to take care of them and to teach our children to do so also.
 

 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

 Anyway we stopped buying food with preservatives, we used only foods that had minimal ingredients and only had things on the label that we could pronounce LOL.  We avoided all chemicals and food dyes that were unnatural.  We incorporated a lot more fruits and veggies and bought as much organic as we possibly could.  We searched out resources to buy meats from animals that were free roaming, grass fed, free of hormones, and antibiotics (these things accumulate in our children’s body’s ladies!  Do you notice that girls are beginning to get breasts at a much younger age?  Boys are entering puberty at a younger age also!  Those hormones are not good for our children and you can find milk free of these hormones in so many stores now mothers.  It isn’t too hard to find and your family will reap the benefits.  You will feel good knowing you are serving them life.   If you live in an area where they sell Royal Crest milk, the milk is hormone free and they deliver right to your door.  If you live by farmland, that is your best choice, it is great place ladies to get fresh milk like our ancestors did and the pilgrims did which is straight from the animal!  That raw milk has amazing enzymes that are wonderful for the human body!   We searched out and found eggs that were fertile fresh from the farm from free roaming chickens. (The eggs being fertile help it turn into a type of protein form that our body is able to use much easier!)  We started drinking a lot of clean water (water is such a necessary thing in our diets!  Our bodies are over 80% water and when we don’t replenish that water we are truly causing harm to our bodies ladies!  I know that first hand too! ), Every body in my family is now required to drink half their body weight in water every day!  (We never did drink pop prior to this we just drank juice before we switched to water.)  Fresh juices are good they count as water intake so do herbal teas, smoothies, but I am sorry ladies coffee doesn’t count LOL.  We began juicing fresh fruits and veggies on a regular basis.
 

We began adding essential fatty acids to our diets like omega 3/6/9. This is so important for brain development and function of our children ladies!  You would be amazed at how depleted our children really are of these oils.  We started staying away from refined anything including oils especially the hydrogenated and the partially hydrogenated ones and we began using Cold pressed 100% virgin olive oil, unrefined coconut oils and palm oils in our diets and we went back to using butter.  These fats are good fats and did you know ladies that when we eat good fats it helps replace and flush out the bad fats from our bodies that we store and before you know it you are losing weight without even trying.  You find that the weight is just melting off your body. I am living proof ladies it is true!  I lost a total of about 50 pounds over a short period of time.  I didn't do anything special I just worked on getting my metabolism going normally again and the essential oils was one of the main keys in doing this along with small frequent meals.  We then began drinking barley green on a daily basis to help add more enzymes to our enzyme pool.  Barley green does a whole host of good things.  Do you know after having one of my babies my gums were in bad shape but the barley green reversed any gum damage I had.  The dentist told me it would stay that way but it didn’t and it was because of the barley green!  None of my children ever had cavities.  But I have recently let some bad foods into our house due to some personal reasons and believe it or not I have 3 children who suddenly went from never having a single cavity to having 19 between the 3 of them.  I think it is because their bodies were not used to that refined foods and since it is so bad it ate right through their healthy bones.  My goal is to get that stuff completely out of here again and see if their teeth go back to no cavities after these ones get filled.  That shows you how amazing their diet was and then I allowed some slack into my home and before I knew it my children are paying for it!  It goes to show you mother that a little something can truly hurt us.  We had read that adding a fiber blend to our diet would help keep our colons cleaned by being brushed out.  Our colons affect a large part of our health they can keep us healthy or make us sick.  Keeping our intestinal track swept out clean is so very important to good health ladies!  We also switched to taking a good whole food type supplement everyday.  By doing so we know we are not wasting our money and we know we are gaining much from those whole foods within the supplement along with them helping replenish our enzyme pool.   Our family is ever so healthy!  I know we, as humans who are comfortable where we are at would rather not think about these things.  Mothers may I suggest that if nothing else you at least ponder my story and decide to maybe do your own experiment.

There was a time there for 1 year that we did almost 100% raw food eating.  I did that for my family (with my dh permission and approval) so that we could completely cleanse out all bad things in our bodies.  Mothers when I did this we didn’t get even a sniffle for over a year.  It was great!  Not a single allergy showed through, no sickness whatsoever!   We now try our best to do a minimum of 60% raw and 40% cooked sometimes when possible we do 80% raw and 20% cooked.  But please dear mothers this is not about doing raw, being vegetarian or any of that. If you want to share your story with me I would more than love to hear it.  But please do not feel I am telling you that you must become a raw foodist or vegetarian.  That is not what this is about.  Ladies what this is about one mother sharing her story of how she cleaned up her family and their health in many ways and wanted to share her new found information with those who were unaware of what she learned, which of course was me. This is me, one mother, sharing on how I cleaned up our family’s diets and now serve them foods as close to the way God made them as much as possible.

Ladies did you know that our bodies have enzymes that help us digest food?  We all have an enzyme pool and we deplete that on a daily basis, every time we eat.   If we are not replacing and replenishing those enzymes in the enzyme pool on a daily basis we are literally leading ourselves into sickness.  This is so important ladies especially for young children because with each and every passing generation mothers the enzyme pool is just that much more depleted if we are not replenishing it through out the generational gene pool.  I truly believe that is a big contributor to all these childhood diseases we are seeing surfacing in today’s world. Look around you ladies and truly look at what is happening to the health of our country.  Things that children never had before they are now getting at such a young age.  That is so sad ladies don’t you agree?  What I find even sadder is to find out that all this could have probably been prevented if we were all better educated on health.  Did you know that doctors get like 1 hour of study on nutrition when they are studying to be a doctor?  I know this because my brother is a doctor and he told me. The medical field doesn’t put enough emphasis on preventive medicine.  They are great for heart attacks and broken legs but if I have a virus or a cold I am going home and treat myself with the wonderful plants God gave me!  I am going to go make some homemade chicken soup with a whole chicken and put lots of veggies and garlic and onion in it.  Did you ladies know that there are truly healing properties in real chicken soup?  Oh ladies this is so wonderful you must try it next time.  If you see your family getting sick ladies then give them a treat. Get a whole chicken (hormone and antibiotic free, and free range if possible) and make them a nice big pot of homemade chicken noodle soup.  They will love it!  You will feel so good knowing how you just blessed and nurtured your family with healthful things. Did you ladies know you don’t have to buy organic to get a good healthy product?  You pay dearly to have the organic label.  So some companies like Shelton’s they raise chickens antibiotic free and hormone free but you wouldn’t know it. You have to ask whomever you are buying from.  Many health food stores wont carry things with chemicals or hormones so ask them if that is their stand, then you don’t pay for the organic label but you get a good product that is safe for your family.  This is just some information to check out for your family’s ladies.  Another thing is to find a local farmer who sells chickens or beef and do not treat them with bad stuff like the antibiotics and hormones, there are plenty of them out there, you just have to look.   You are truly nurturing your family back to good health being the wonderful mother that you are! Here is a doctor that did a study on health and enzymes.  Dr. Frances Pottinger studied degenerative diseases and nutrition, but he was a pulmonary disease specialist. He did a famous study called Pottinger's cats.

Pottinger's cats compared in a 10-15 year study cats who were fed raw meat and raw milk that were healthy to cats fed cooked food. By the 3rd and 4th generation, the health of the second group of cats was really compromised. They had arthritis eye problems and couldn't reproduce by the 4th and 5th generation.  Now of course this study was done with raw meat and raw milk. Mothers I am not suggesting you eat raw meat but we drink fresh raw milk all the time.  As a matter of fact, after I had my twins due to circumstances I couldn’t produce enough breast milk.  So I looked into alternatives to supplement with.  I found raw goats milk was very close to mother’s milk.  That is what we did.  My little twins have more allergies than any other child and I think it is because they didn’t get all mommy breast milk and because at first I was forced to give them some formula while they were still in the hospital and I truly saw that formula do them harm and not good.  So I was forced to find some goats milk.  I know it was the best choice out of what I had to work with and I know it had the enzymes in it and I knew that was so important dear mothers.  Pottingers  main study was to show the effect of lack of enzymes from generation to generation based on what we eat.  You should look into this study it is very interesting mothers!

My twins never get sick but like I said they do have allergy issues that I am working on.   Allergies affect our children and their behaviors too.  It is beneficial to them if you can find out what they are sensitive to or allergic to and remove that item from their diets or from your home.  I know it may be difficult at first mothers but it is well worth it in the end I promise you that!  Think of how much better your child will feel if his allergies were to subside.  If you have a common cold aren’t you miserable?  Well allergies leave our children feeling similar to that and it shows in their behaviors.

 Mothers may I challenge you to try an experiment?   Serve your family whole foods for 1 month and see if you notice improvements in your children’s behaviors, your behaviors and even your mans.  See if it helps everybody feel better in all his or her behaviors.  Are you less irritable?  Are you less tired?  Less foggy?  Look for these improvements in all your family members.  Take away whatever they crave for a month. Make them drink lots of water and get rid of the pop. Do you know how much sugar is in soda pop dear mother?  With all the sugar our dear children are eating, including us, we wonder why their/our moods are so erratic.  It is from all the sugar highs and lows they are getting throughout the day.  They are going on an up and down roller coaster ride and it benefits nobody mother!

I know this will not be an easy change mothers!  I know first hand I did it myself.  But from one mother to another I can tell you my life has changed  in so many ways by incorporating Gods foods into our diet and getting man made stuff out.   When we make foods from scratch it is cheaper than packaged stuff!   I make my own refried beans!  They are 100% better than the canned stuff dear sisters!  It may take awhile for your family to adapt to the new tastes of foods but they will I promise you!  Over time people tend to acquire a taste for whatever  foods they are eating and if they are being served good wholesome foods they will begin to love that taste.  Tonight I made Whole Wheat oatmeal cookies.  It was made with unrefined sugar (sucanat) and whole-wheat pastry flour that I ground fresh in my mill (soft wheat berries) that is very similar to white flour.  Nobody eating them would know they were healthy.

We began researching herbs and the plants God gave us for healing instead of all the things in the pharmacies.  You would be amazed at the alternatives you can use instead of pharmaceuticals.  I am not saying we should never see a doctor ladies or you should never take medicine again.  Our medical world has its purpose I just think we over use it mothers.  Start being your family’s doctor and learn what you can about health and how to care for your family!  Ladies this is so much fun!  Believe me I have learned so much!  At first I couldn’t even pronounce the words of some of the herbs I was reading about but now since time has passed I now have friends who call me looking for remedies for their sick children.  Did you ladies know that if you get bit by a bug of any kind, but especially a bee, and especially if you are allergic you can grate up an onion, put the wet pulp on the area you were bit and cover it.  Leave it and change it out if necessary.  That onion will draw out the venom that the bug inserted into your  bites so they don’t itch.  May I share that once my second oldest ds was approx 2 at the time. He was outside and got bit by a wasp.  I had just read the day before, because I was on a learning quest for a dear friend who had called telling me her son was bit by a bee what did I recommend to use.  I went and got out my books and starting researching what she should do. That is when discovered onion.  So the next day my ds was also bit I was prepared, I already knew what to do, no research had to be done on my part.  My DH is allergic to bees and by the look of it my ds was too.  After I applied the onion I put him down for a nap.  After he woke up you couldn’t even tell he was bit there was nothing there but a pinhole where he was bit.  My sister had previously been bitten by that same type of wasp she said it was extremely painful and throbbed for days.  My ds never complained once.  I would of never known that if I didn’t research it ladies.  You can do it too dear mothers!  You can research health alternatives for your family.  Whether it be food, or herbs or whatever else you will find it to be so much fun to learn.  Make it a school project ladies then you are all learning together!  Did you know that nobody in my family has been on antibiotics for over 9 years now?  I have used alternatives for the last 9 years and none of my other 6 children ever got a single ear infection?  These are absolute truths ladies.  My children don’t get sick often but if they do it is with the common cold.  We rarely if ever get the flu.  I have very healthy children!  It is so very nice!  A big difference then where I started with them!

As for food you may say my man likes his hamburger helper. He will not give it up. That is okay ladies there are healthy versions out there that taste great.   If he still hates it then serve your man what he desires and get his permission to serve your children whole foods.  I am sure he will agree.  He will probably join them down the road when he gets a little braver about giving up what he is familiar with.  But he can join in whenever he chooses.  You mother can do this now if your husband gives his approval!  There are so many options mother!  I am not saying you must do this but I am challenging you to seek health for your family ladies  especially if you have health issues in your family at this time.  If you have behavior issues or problems with frequent sickness look into these things the Lord lead me to back when I was looking for answers.  Dear mothers I promise you, you will not regret doing so!  If you don’t like it, no harm done, just go back to what you were doing before and then life goes on.  But I think you will be inspired by all the changes you will see.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised and you will want to keep growing in your learning.  Mother you are amazing do all you can for your family!  Watch the results because when you see the changes I think you will want to continue on!   Know I will be routing for you!  I will be your cheerleader for I believe in you!  If you have questions or need a few recipes go ahead and contact me. I will help you however I can.  I will pray for your success.