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Someone went and read at the Christian/ADD thing which was sent to me because
I am a homeschooler. I'm guessing lots of you received it, too. This is
current as of today, folks. And why did I receive it? Because someone
thinks that because I'm a homeschooler, I'm interested in "Biblical
treatment" of ADD, Tourettes, facial tics, other sin-based problems.


From here down isn't me writing. It's either the reviewer or quotes from
the site.

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I went to the link for the online book in your garbage box.

From the title I expected "how to" but took looking at LOTS of chapters

to find the book's promise. Pages on pages of general blathering and

generalizations about society and "history".


Finally got the "how to" in Chapter 20...Questions and Answers.

Look especially for the "proper way to administer a spanking" BLECH as well

as how a respondent beat the tics out her child lest he develop Tourettes

Syndrome.

In case you don't want to subject yourself I could not restrain myself from

distilling a couple of the things I finally managed to pull up amidst all

the "psychology is stupid" wordiness.


>>>It was six months after the eye blinking first started that I decided to

give it one last try - by correcting his purposeless behavior with the rod.

I would feel extremely guilty if it did not work, because it would have

meant that I had spanked my child for something that he could not help. On

the other hand, I would feel much worse if I were to discover one day that I

could have done something about it and did not. Weighing the two options, I

decided that the former was preferable. I discussed it with my husband, who

agreed.


To our surprise the first spanking stopped the eye blinking completely for

three hours. The second round stopped it for four months and the third

forever.>>>>>>>>


>>>>>It was only then that I realized that my son was on his way towards

developing true TS. Indeed, during the years to follow Gustav would on and

off have tics, about six different ones in all: sniffing, tongue clicking,

head jerking, nose twitching, etc. He got a hiding for each and every one.

Sometimes it took one hiding to rid him of a new tic, sometimes two or

three. The most difficult one to rid him of was eye rolling. He would roll

his eyes so that one could only see the white. He has been without any tics

since December 2001, and hopefully it will continue in this way.


The explanation I gave to my son is that all sins have consequences. >>>>>>


>>>The purpose, it must be repeated, is not to punish, but to drive a little

of the sinfulness from the heart of the child. So, if the hiding succeeded

in doing this, it was effective, if it did not, it was ineffective. Giving a

child an ineffective hiding is like hitting a child for no purpose, and that

is child abuse. It is therefore very important that the parent must make

sure that the hiding is indeed effective.



>>>The parent should then make a mental note how many lashes had been hit,

and must then, at the next visit to the bathroom, hit more and hit harder.

In this way the severity of the hiding must be stepped up until the child

responds to the parent's embrace.


>>>>Every parent can decide for himself or herself how long he or she wants

the hiding to last. If you want it to last for two weeks, then hit hard

enough and long enough to make it last for two weeks. If you want the hiding

to last for two months, then you simply have to hit harder and longer to

make the hiding last longer

Discipline. A parent who really loves his or her child, will never repeat

any instruction verbally, but will always repeat it in one way only and that

is with a belt or a stick in the bathroom.


>>>Obedience should be prompt, complete and unquestioned. Children should

learn that their parents mean what they say, and parents should expect their

children to obey the first time they speak.


>>>Unquestionable obedience means that the authority of the parent may not

be questioned. If you have to reason and argue with your child in order to

get obedience, you will soon find yourself frustrated and outwitted.

>>>And if a child is commanded to do something and he does so unwillingly,

fussing or whining, his attitude needs correction too.""


And must NOT overlook the "commercial" for the author's product and how any

decreased success is the fault of the consumer :-) OR that allowing failure

at the task will lead to unemployable adults!


>>The turning point for Heidi came in September 1997, after seeing a program

on TV about Dr. Jan Strydom's work. She made an appointment to see Dr.

Strydom in October 1997.


"The consultation, which lasted two hours, changed our lives forever," says

Heidi. "Dr. Strydom taught us how to correct Hermann's behavior problems,

and also recommended that we embark on the Audiblox program in order to

improve Hermann's cognitive abilities.">> (This is from following a link

about "another" child with Tourettes and his cure)


>>An improvement was also noted in Hermann's IQ score. As stated, he scored

70 on 7 March 1997. When his IQ was re-assessed in November 1998, it was 84.

On 13 June 1999, it was found to be 96.


"Best of all," says Heidi, "after following Dr. Strydom's advice, our

aggressive and destructive child was turned into a loving child. He is still

very active and a real chatterbox, but can now sit still and be dead quiet

in situations where it is required of him. He can also be trusted to behave

when left on his own. He goes to bed at normal hours, after watching one or

two programs on TV - something he never did. He was simply too active. The

obsessive-compulsive behavior, the continual swearing and stealing, the

suicidal thoughts and bedwetting are long forgotten."



If your child has problems similar to those of Hermann,

contact us for help at info@...



""Since 1979 I have been involved in helping children overcome learning

problems, using a program called Audiblox. Audiblox is a system of cognitive

exercises, aimed at the development of foundational skills. Of course the

child's attitude does not change when he does Audiblox. If a child has a

wrong attitude toward work, he will only achieve limited success on the

program. It therefore often happens that parents contact me to ask, for

example, whether they can cut down on the time they have to spend on

Audiblox. They say that after some time on the program the child gets bored

with it, because of the repetitive nature of the exercises. It is important

to note that the level of difficulty of Audiblox can be increased

indefinitely. The boredom is not related to lack of complexity but to

routine, and is therefore merely a sign of a wrong attitude toward work.

Unless the child is given the opportunity to learn how to deal with routine,

it will make life impossible for him when later he has to enter the labor

market. Just like he was bored by the Audiblox exercises, routine tasks at

work will also bore him. The nurse, for example, will become bored to have

to check the blood pressure of the same patient every day, and the teacher

will be bored with having to follow the same syllabus year after year.


>>The child, who wants a break every now and then during the course of an

Audiblox lesson - purportedly to stretch his legs, or to fetch a cold drink

from the fridge - will be the worker one day who will want to interrupt a

meeting for a smoke break after every five minutes. The child who becomes

stubborn and refuses to continue with the program, will become the rolling

stone, moving from one job to the next as soon as he gets bored with a

current job. One mother wrote, "We have had a hard time with our son. He

does not want to do his Audiblox and he gets very defiant in doing it.. He

gets very stubborn and does not want to do it." This mother does not realize

that she has the opportunity - and the duty - to save her son from having a

very unhappy and unproductive work life later as an adult.>>


>>Sometimes parents report that the child's performance on Audiblox has

deteriorated; for example, whereas he succeeded in doing Sequencing exercise

3 with eleven blocks at the start, he can now only manage seven. Such a

child will probably later fritter away his time in the work place.


>>Several parents have asked what to do if their child complains that his

"arms get tired" from doing the Arrows exercise. It is interesting to note

in how many cases this complaint came from children who are obviously very

able on the sports field! Such a child will most probably later be the

worker who sleeps on the job, only to have his energy return when the

workday is over>>>