I don’t want to brag. Okay, I DO! My kids are always bright eyed, cough and runny nose free, winter time fiends, balls of bursting, healthful energy 24/7 & 365 days a year. When we want a rest, we have to give them 2mg of melatonin, cause these kids never crash land!
People constantly ask us why our kids are never sick. Even when all their playmates are out with the flu, or when there is a bad bug going around, my kids are the only ones left out on the playground. Here are just SOME of the tips on how we do it, and a few may just surprise you. I am loaded with great ways to get the little ones into health, so if you have a question, I will do my best to help out. But for NOW…
1. Vaccinate your kids (but do it my way…):
Now I surely do NOT mean vaccinate your kids with the poison potions that the doctors wield around in gigantic needles. No, the vaccines we give our kids are free! During the summer months (when there are no major bugs going around, allow your kids to put their hands in their mouths after being in the shopping cart. Let them lick the slide if they want to. Their sneakers can go right on the table. The can crawl on the floor at your favorite coffee shop without 400 degree water to sterilize them with after. Any nurse will tell you that all this “sterilizer” we are using is causing super bugs. Our kids are kept so safe from all these viruses and bacterias, that the moment their little system gets one, it’s off the the sick house, sometimes for a week or more! If you allow their immune system to encounter small virsues on a daily basis, by the time winter comes around, they’ve already had a much lighter version of what has everyone else in the gutter! This is advice passed on from my grandmother, who lived to be 92 and was only sick one time that I knew her! This is a well known bit, but a piece of knowledge we have allowed ourselves to get too fearful (or squeimish) over. The only place we don’t allow this kind of modesty are public restrooms & foreign countries for reasons that I hope are self-explanatory.
2. Get livestock! Recent studies show the benefit to raising your own poultry, beef, and goats milk is more than the obvious! People who are exposed to the pathogens from healthy livestock fight disease better AND have a significantly reduced chance of getting cancer. Whether this is from the fresh, non-processed foods you get from your own backyard (as opposed to the canned or Made in China variety) or if the germs passed to us from our feathered friends allows our bodies to create super barriers, I don’t know…I can’t bring myself to read a whole damn medical article with all the awful footnotes etc. But you can read it and then go right out and get a few chickens (legal even in rural neighborhoods)!
3. Grow Shrooms and let your kids have them!
I mean it. Kombucha is the coolest science experiment turned MAJOR bonus to your families health. The healing properties of this mushroom have been reported for nearly a thousand years. Not to mention, it is any little boys fantasy to have a gigantic, slimy mushroom to play with. It’s really termed a “zoogleal mat” which is funny enough to make the kids laugh, which is also perfect medicine for the body. The taste is not so bad, and better when you find the recipe you like best. And best YET when you realize that it has real, time honored healing capabilities. Study up on this really good before you take to it, as making the tea in an unsterilized pot, a pot with lead, or overdosing on the tea could be bad. Next, I will show you how we use it in…
4. Mom’s Magic Elixer!
When Dublin was a baby he was so healthy no one could believe it. He was well-breast fed, gaining weight and very alert. This was until he turned 6 months old and we vaccinated him like a bunch of uneducated idiots. Then his leg swelled to 3 times its normal size, he suffered from constant fevers, earaches, acid reflux, diarrhea, and much worst. I began researching all the things I could do, and found that herbs are mostly a safe remedy for adults, but they caution using them on babies. So, I had to develop two plans.
First, a healthy elixer to use for babies and second, an elixer to use for us adults to stay healthy around the baby that could also be used as he got older. Since babies are so sensitive, I advise you go to an herbalist if your child is under 3. So, my first recipe is simple. Lots of breast milk. When you make the baby food, like rice or corn, put it in a small saucer of HOMEMADE chicken broth, skimming and saving the fat and oils from the top to pour on babies food. Also juicing spinach and green apples with a few carrots, and giving baby this mixed with water twice a day, no more than 2 oz juice and 2 oz water at a time is amazing!
Then, once they turn that magic number, here is what I started using. I fill a large dropper bottle (the kind you get at the healthfood store, about the size of the plastic ones you get children’s tylenol in) with Kombucha tea that I bought (I always BUY the komucha for the elixer, as it has to be very sterile. Then I take 2 zinc pills and grind them to a powder. Next, I add 1/2 tsp of goldenseal powder. Next, 2 tbsp of Echinacea root extract (all this can be purchased at any healthfood store). I then add a pack of Emergen-C fizzy vitamin C. In the morning I give the kids 1 dropperful, and one dropperful at night. The taste is so bad that you have to bribe them, which is the perfect time to give them a licorice lozinge or other healthy sucker that you can ALSO get from the health food store, some even have vitamins in them.
5. Juice, and not the shelf!
Don;t juice the shelf at your local supermarket. It is pure sugar and dye! Why not just let your kid eat rubber? Instead, make a small investment in a juicer. Buy carrots, celery, spinach, green aplles and parsly. You can do like we do and slowly add ginger and garlic cloves little by little. We juice every morning and every night. The kids drink 4 oz undiluted, or 6 oz if you add a little unpasterized apple juice to it. First, give them a cool straw! It helps. We put a treat right next to the glass and play a game. We point a little further down on the glass each time, telling them, drink to here, and making a big deal out of it when they do. When it is gone and you can hear the “gurlge” at the bottom, they get the treat. Now we don’t even bribe them anymore! They drink it down and ask for more, but it is a process, and you cannot let them win. If they know they will sit at the table all night, they will drink it. Or if you give them a worst alternative, they will instanlty go for the easier and sweeter of the two. Just be smarter than the kids!
6. Get Yeast.
Brewers yeast. We sprinkle brewers yeast onto everything they eat. It is flavorful and yummy. We add it to their protein drinks, their juice, their backed potatoes, their soup, their toast and their vanilla ice cream. Brewer’s yeast is often used as a source of B-complex vitamins, chromium, and selenium. The B-complex vitamins in brewer’s yeast include B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B9 (folic acid), and H or B7 (biotin)! These vitamins help break down carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, which provide the body with energy. BY helps you loose weight, builds the immune system, supports the nervous system, help maintain the muscles used for digestion, and keep skin, hair, eyes, mouth, and liver healthy.
7. Cut it out:
Kids were never meant to consume the kids of food dyes, processed junk and candy that they are forced to eat every day. I say forced because we are so busy that we never have “time” anymore to cook that fresh from the farm 6 course meal. Not true! I wake up 10 minutes early. The night before I get all my ingredience together. In the morning, I toss them into this cool, amazing thing called a crock pot. Just imagine, 7 hours later you have a healthy, complete meal. I add in dandelion leaves, parsley, fresh herbs, cloves of garlic, onion, fresh veggies, chicken and let it super slow cook all day. You can make 100’s of recipes in a crock pot. I would suggest you and your family having broth at least 3 times a week at night, even as a “late night treat.” The fat in broth cooked without MSG using Celtic Sea salts and with the gizzards of the bird, is the BEST weapon to give your body against infection. Kids love it with a few noodles tossed in. I also will use real beets to make it bright pink, and my daughter just loves it! Instead of letting your kids have all this junk, just invest a few minutes of time each evening, even while listening to the radio or watching TV from the other room. It is so worth it, and gives the kids a feeling of being nurtured by mom and dad.
8. Turn them on!
Turn them on to “strangeFruit.” Make it a competition, who can find and eat the ugliest fruit of vegetable. Be willing to fix it and eat it with them. Keep trying! My son will eat ANYTHING he gets to pick himself, from the garden or the shelf. My daughter loves Pomegranites! Be excited about it and don’t get grossed out. Pretend you love it even if you don’t!
9. Pretend they are sick:
Reverse mantra? Nope. If you treat their bodies as though they are sick, you are being premptive. Put them to bed by 8pm at the latest if they are under 10. Put cool mist vaporizer in their rooms, adding ecalyptus oil, and clean it out constantly to prevent bacteria. Air out their rooms in the day, even if it is cold! Put oil in their noses before school, olive oil is great, vitamin E is best. I use a Q-tip and put it on thick. This is PROVEN to block germs from entering. Have them gargle goldenseal (just a touch) and sea salt after they brush their teeth. Treat cuts with colloidal silver. Use colloidal silver for ear infections too! Their bath each night should have a tsp Tea Tree oil in it to kill staph on the body and heal cuts. When they get out use sunflower or Sesame oil to put on their skin, all over. This is an Ayurvedic measure that works. Follow all these previous suggestions!
If you do 60% of this, I would drop dead if your kid missed more than 10 days of school in a term. Mine miss about 3 per year. Good luck, and remember that your child feeling love, safe and nurtured is the MOST important piece of all of this.
Love,
Da Mama Shea
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