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Unvaccinated, Homeschooled, and TV-Free: It's Not Just for Fanatics and Zealots (Volume 1) |  | Author: Julie Cook
Creators: Simon Presland, Jerry Dorris
Publisher: No Regrets Publishing
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Pages: 148
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0984305009
EAN: 9780984305001
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Publication Date: January 7, 2010
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For years, the homeschooling, TV-free, and anti-vaccine movements have been regarded by most as lifestyles for fanatics and zealots. Mass media has continued to portray families who choose these lifestyles as outsiders and oddballs, even though homeschooling has been growing at a rate of 7%-12% per year, and most homeschooling families are in the upper middle class with both parents having advanced degrees. Unvaccinated, Homeschooled, and TV-Free: It's Not Just for Fanatics and Zealots, will show you why it is so important that you think for yourself, research for yourself, and have the courage to believe that you are right. This is a book for educators, parents, parents-to-be, and anyone who cares about the health, well-being, and future of children. In most ways, Julie Cook lives a typical mainstream life, complete with high-tech career, multiple degrees and a suburban lifestyle. But, she's making non-mainstream decisions for her daughter. In this book, she describes her decision-making process, and the facts that led her to these alternative choices. In the end she says, "I never care that people arrive at the same conclusions that I did. I only care that they personally put in a level of effort that corresponds to the importance of the decision."
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A Must for Parents January 26, 2010
Ellen Currey-Wilson (Portland, OR)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A revolutionary book that motivates even the most mainstream of parents to examine their choices about television, school and their children's health. Author Julie Cook always assumed she would be like every other parent who made Sesame Street, recess bells and a myriad of shots a part of her child's life. But when daughter Genevieve arrived, the author began to re-think the so-called common wisdom. She researched the vaccine industry and decided her daughter would be healthier without them. She kept the television off so Genevieve would have more time to explore the world around her and not beg for trips to McDonald's. When it came time to send her daughter to school, Cook decided that home was a better place for Genevieve to continue to love learning and reach her full potential. Parents will easily identify with Cook as she tells her story through a new mother's eyes and presents readers with the information that made her decide to go against the trend. She encourages parents to listen to their intuition and find the courage to follow the wisdom of their hearts. The good news is they will not be alone!
Ellen Currey-Wilson, author of The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid (Algonquin 2007)
Beyond Six Stars--a Game Changer, Pure Public Intelligence March 16, 2010
Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book will join the Six Stars and Beyond group at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, where I can group my reviews in the 98 categories in which I read and you can do a whole lot of other things such as search all my reviews for specific terms.
This book is deeper than most will give it credit. The author has done a great deal of research, presents verifiable notes, and offers up 27 short section with adequate but not excessive white space. I especially like the quotes, several from Albert Einstein, used throughout the book to highlight a point. I also especially respect the reality that the author speaks to directly: when Western commerce and medicine have been so corrupted by the profit motive, it is very difficult to find research that upholds the truth of natural and alternative cures, or that presents the truth about the dangers of our peverted health system that ignores all but the "profitable" quarter of health, surgical and pharmaceutical remediation.
See for example:
Prescription for Natural Cures
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
This is a revolutionary book, and it joins others that make the case for rejecting the big government - big banks - big business triumverate that commoditizes people, loots the treasury, and rapes the Earth for short-term gain by the few against the public interest.
See for example:
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
The People's Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy
Human Scale
I am impressed right away with the common sense case for NOT turning over cord blood to profiteers and instead ensuring the last bit of priceless iron and other core ingredients are transferred from mother to child.
The section on vaccinations may strike some as scattered but I am very impressed. Vaccinations appear to be genuinely counter-productive and introduce illness. While a great deal more public intelligence (decision-support) needs to be produced, I am satisfied that on balance the medical and pharmaceutical industries are 60% or more AGAINST human health. I am also continuously outraged at a Congress so corrupt in the USA that it prohibits negotiations on Medicare prices for pharmaceuticals so that we pay 100 times (literally) more for each of the top 75 generic drugs than anyone pays in the rest of the world less Canada, where they pay 10% what we pay. Everyone else pays 1%. ONE PER CENT. The greatest advance in health was clean water, which we are losing rapidly across America and which billions do not enjoy at all. The medical industry is retarded, plain and simple, the excellence of selected elements not-with-standing.
I learn something I did not know that is profoundly important: vitamin C evidently cures both acute polio and acute hepatisis, two diseases that modern medicine still referws to as incurable. I find the author's footnotes compelling.
The section on TV is to the point, and makes the point as well as longer books that I also admire, such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and the Internet equivalent, Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. TV is bad for children, who do not know any better--it promotes materialism, depression, bad eating habits, and stunts children socially. The author does not address video games, which have both pros and cons, and a future edition might integrate that interactive follow-on.
The bulk of the book focuses on home schooling, and I confess to being so preoccupied with forcing a revolution in intelligence (decision-support) that I missed a once in a lifetime opportunity to take my three boys and wife around the world on a 65 foot McGregor. With what I know today, I absolutely recommend world travel for parents with children, and home schooling along the way which will be a joy not a burden. There is SO MUCH in this book that normal parents need to absorb, while the author may feel she is spitting into the wind, the wind IS changing direction and I see in all my reading and communications across America a massive revolution against big everything and a strong bottom up desire to get back to basics.
The second half of the book focuses on home schooling with ten reasons that are spelled out in the table of contents (click on the book cover above--the publisher has been responsible in taking advantage of Amazon's Look Inside the Book offering. I like every bit of it and only wish every parent were required to read this book--or at leasdt given an opportunity to read this book, before "going along" with the rank and file decisions that are pressed upon a people grown stupid in the aggregate. The author opens the book with this quote from Albert Einstein: "He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
See also Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling.
I put the book down, after going through the bibliography, with a feeling of great satisfaction. This book by this author is "citizen intelligence." The author is an "intelligence minuteman," a term coined by Alessandro Politi in 1992. It is the core contributing element to Collective Intelligence, and I will end by pointing to the work on that topic edited by Canadian PhD student Mark Tovey (55 contributors).
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
This is the best of books--strong thinking, simple elegant presentation, and a compelling message of human health and freedom. Beyond six stars.
See also the books that Amazon points out have been bought along with this one, I cannot link them here (limit of ten and I have not read them) but I see a very strong emergent human understanding that Industrial-era "rank and file" is very very bad for our health as humans.
Very informative, yet easy to read and understand January 26, 2010
tiffanyandgreg
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really, really loved this book! The author is very knowledgeable and informative. She has done her research and writes about her findings in an easy to understand way. Some books that I read are hard to get through. This one was so fast and I did not want to put it down. I do not feel like that about many non-fiction books! Great book for any parent, parent-to-be, or grandparent. I also like how the author does not make you feel bad if your choices are different from hers...she just wants to give everyone the power to make informed decisions regarding the children in their life!
 Quick read leaves you wanting more... February 9, 2010
Inner Voice (Los Angeles, Ca)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's been said that "common sense is no longer common." It seems to me that this book seeks to put the "common" back into the phrase "common sense."
It gets back to thinking for ourselves, by asking the most simple & basic questions. So basic, that we have forgotten to ask them. Although this book seems to pack a lot of information, it is very easy to get through in one or two sittings. (i am a very slow reader) In fact, it is so concise and the topics so important (the health, protection and formation of these precious souls entrusted to parents) that one longs to read much, much more. Most of what I read in this book simply confirmed what I had already believed but gave my beliefs and intuition a more scientific base. And although the book raises many questions (especially within the chapter on Home schooling for me) , I look forward to reading an expanded version by Mrs. Cook.
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