One other thing - watching the mom, she eerily reminds me of my very mentally ill mother-in-law in her speech patterns, body language, facial expressions and mannerisms. My mother in law neglected and abused her kids (mostly emotional and not purposefully) - all of them, leading to us having to step in and try to help raise the kids.
Years later we now have one living with us because he can't function well and has nowhere to go, my 21 year old brother-in-law, who despite our efforts to help him, is like a former foster kid - going on 16, and needing much more care than he should at that age. That's another heartbreaking topic.
LOL, I was gonna' say, maybe I need some of that stuff!
I wonder if the brother can take the kids while this is going on.
One other thing - watching the mom, she eerily reminds me of my very mentally ill mother-in-law in her speech patterns, body language, facial expressions and mannerisms. My mother in law neglected and abused her kids (mostly emotional and not purposefully) - all of them, leading to us having to step in and try to help raise the kids.
Years later we now have one living with us because he can't function well and has nowhere to go, my 21 year old brother-in-law, who despite our efforts to help him, is like a former foster kid - going on 16, and needing much more care than he should at that age. That's another heartbreaking topic.
BBM: I would agree that the home schooling is a fairly large portion of this debacle; however, contrary to popular belief - home schoolers get ZERO -as in none whatsoever -tax break for doing so. I educated my four children at home for twenty-five years, and paid all the the required school taxes the entire time.
LOL, my FIL takes all kinds of stuff like MMS and believes in that thing where you have to balance your pH like she talked about in the video. He is 85 and in amazing shape.
Just a bit of info.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement
Interesting. Mrs. Stanley struck me as - absent? Checked out. In some way? Just me. Others mileage may vary.
Bleach is essentially chlorine and chlorine is to purify water. In 'Nam we couldn't drink the water without adding chlorine tablets.
Court documents, he said, indicate that the 16-year-old boy reported bringing the MMS bottle to a friend’s house and then coughed for several hours after smelling it. But Stanley suspects that the boy may have inhaled a different chemical used for the aquaponics system, and that he used the incident to try to get out of his parents’ homeschooling program.
But the Garland County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement this week that it was “absolutely false” that MMS was the sole reason the Stanley children were removed from the home. The sheriff’s office, according to the statement, “responded to possible child abuse and neglect allegations from … concerned citizens that are familiar with, and friends of, the family.”
He is and very intelligent and well spoken. Notice that he is defending LE and DHS quite a bit, does state he thinks there are some things that needed to be looked into, that the allegations were by well-meaning people with genuine concerns, that the Christian, homeschooling community is not being attacked by this, etc.
He said his parents are good people and have acted with the best of intentions but that there are some things they may need to change. He said LE didn't act on their own from nothing but were prompted by allegations. He said that
"some may say it could happen to anyone" (that was his mother who said that), but then he went on to explain, it seems, that there were some valid concerns. Possibly some exaggeration here and there but some truth and some real concerns.
Seems like a very measured, honest person. And I must say that if they raised him, perhaps they aren't too bad. However, I do note that the mother admitted in her statement to changing their lifestyle or parenting techniques. I wonder if they changed for the worse.
The older son in the video, pretty much covered the rest of what my thoughts were concerning these actions taken. Parents sometimes have certain beliefs that are not necessarily what is best for the children and can be in fact harmful, even though parents think they are doing what is best for their children.
Not. Nice.SBM
I haven't watched the video but I don't doubt that's exactly what these parents are gonna be doing... Well, I shouldn't be too judgemental til I watch it. ..
I wonder if MMS is the same as the fish aquarium PH adjuster drops OT: My "father" would give himself coffee enemas once a week. He was Mormon so he could not drink it but it was ok going in another way. He got colon cancer and I always wondered if it was due to the coffee enemas. He beat the cancer but dropped dead at age 89. He had not been taking his high blood pressure pills but would drink a vinegar/water concoction. We kids were not allowed to get any vaccinations. My sister almost died of the measles, or maybe it was rubella. I freaked out when I stepped on a nail and was afraid I would get tetanus. I had to soak my foot in Lysol. For a headache, I had to hold a peeled raw potato on my head.
True Wendy... But meanmj was saying that homeschooling families still have to pay property / school taxes. Same as everyone who uses the public schools. And, btw, those families sending their kids to private schools.. They pay the same school tax too.No, the school district (read tax base) gets no money for home-schooled kids. They get paid by attendance per child per day. That's why they are arresting parents in various public school districts for taking kids out of school for family trips. Back when I was in school, we were out of town at least one week a year during school. I kept up and always got good grades. Today they threaten you over a 20 minute orthodontist appointment. JMO
BBM: I would agree that the home schooling is a fairly large portion of this debacle; however, contrary to popular belief - home schoolers get ZERO -as in none whatsoever -tax break for doing so. I educated my four children at home for twenty-five years, and paid all the the required school taxes the entire time.
True Wendy... But meanmj was saying that homeschooling families still have to pay property / school taxes. Same as everyone who uses the public schools. And, btw, those families sending their kids to private schools.. They pay the same school tax too.
So, all the school taxes paid by everyone (either using the school or not) in each district gets schlepped together in a big pot, and the district then doles it out according to attendance and other variables they dream up each year. :thinking: IMO.