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Hi Erin, thanks for sharing that website! It has the kind of courses our children should be participating in. We were doing book work with our son and it was a struggle because he had no interest in the content. Yet, he taught himself to tell time at age 5 when we got him a watch at his request. So I definitely see that when the interest is there, he will learn what is required.

[Alisa]

Thanks, Amber. I found out about unschooling before I had my son from a Trini mom who was doing it and it blew my mind. It made me think about all the school trauma I still held and everything wrong with the system and realise I could do something different when I had my child. Natural progression from attachment parenting too.

[Alisa]

Hi Ife, thanks for your message! Yes, I have experienced boys’ inclination towards graphic novels, too. My son has one now (How the leopard got its Spots) and he pulls it out from time to time and has me read it to him. Then there are the Archie comics.

Thanks for that Naomi Aldort book recommendation. I feel like I live that stuff right now. It is quite the journey, stepping away from how I was raised to give my son a voice and realising what behaviours trigger me.

Regarding unschooling, I just finished reading Peter Gray’s Free to Learn. I feel like everything I read before was anecdotal. Good in its own right : Sandra Dodd, John Holt, The Unschooling Unmanual; these people raised children to adulthood. As my son gets older and remains outside the school system, though, I wanted the scientific and anthropological backing for what I am doing. What I realised from reading it is that children really need other children of various ages for it to work well. That has always been difficult to achieve with one child, his cousins are in school (and very much schooled) and I don’t have much of a community nearby. But it has bolstered me to create opportunities with children so I’m working on that right now.

Thanks for the Flossie and the Fox recommendation. I hadn’t seen that one before.

[Alisa]

Cristina, I am in a similar situation. Early forties. I refuse to wear glasses, except in my case, it would be again. I had laser surgery done for my far vision more than 10 years ago. (Did not know about that DMSO healing mentioned below. Good thing I didn’t try it). Now I have trouble with the close up reading and those black spots that I thought had something to do with trying to sun gaze in the tropics (it just might).

I have experienced some healing of the spots by applying castor oil nightly to my eyelids. I am going to have them gone entirely soon.

I use pinhole glasses when they are on hand and I need to read fine print. I expect to heal my sight entirely so I’m interested in this topic.

[Alisa]

Thank you kindly for your message, Barre. I will look into getting the suggested herbs and I am excited to hear of your Spagyric work with some of them. I will keep an eye out for those as well. I was able to pinpoint doctors who did the auricular therapy training in my country https://ishtaracenter.com/about-us/ and will follow up for long-term healing.

[Alisa]

Thanks, Mary. Things are getting better, actually. The Vitex recommended by Penny is the real deal.

[Alisa]

Nice to hear from you, Eliza. I watched some episodes of The End of Covid series and there was a session where they debunked shedding from the perspective of spike proteins. I guess that does not mean it can’t be another factor having an impact.

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Time for me to move in that direction to healing.

[Alisa]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I wish I were ready for a coffee enema but I’m not there yet. It’s probably time for a liver cleanse though. I have been doing lots of grounding. As I’m in the tropics I don’t lack for daylight. I actually need to be careful as my skin type lacks melanin to the degree required for the sun’s intensity.

[Alisa]

I checked the TCM place I visited many years ago and it seems it closed its doors last year! Will have to look for somewhere else!

[Alisa]

Greetings Penny,

Thank you for your comprehensive response. There are a lot of factors that you listed there that could apply, perhaps compounded together. I do know a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner so thanks for the point in that direction as well.

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