Category: HOLCHILD

THIS IS ABOUT children

Response to God in the Classroom

White Europeans did not discover America. According to archeological data, this country was founded LONG before historical records indicate...as per the copper mines in Ohio dating back 6000 years as well as other sites across the US with artifacts dating back 10,000 years (see Archeology Magazine and American Archeology). The modern history of the invasion of American soil (and by that I mean, North America, South and Canada) was all about enterprise in one form or another not god. So 'discovery' Read more [...]

School Shooters & Their Drugs

November 20, 1986: Rod Matthews, 14, beat a classmate to death with a bat in the woods near his home in Canton, Mass. Though Rod was extremely bright, he was put on Ritalin when he was in third grade. September 26, 1988: 19 year-old James Wilson went on a shooting rampage at Greenwood elementary school in South Carolina. Two children were killed and nine others wounded. Wilson had been treated by a Greenwood psychiatrist since age 14, and given psychiatric drugs including Xanax, Valium, Vistaril, Read more [...]

The Why of Shooters

The first safe and secure environment a child experiences is the sound from mother’s heartbeat in the womb. Neurophysiologists and psychologists emphasize that pregnancy to age 6 years old are the defining stages for modeling all forms of behavior. These patterns are the roots of all future responses, communications, drives and conduct. If the child has not lovingly bonded with the mother during these stages, anti-social neuroses, psychoses and pathologies take root. Boys need this bonding process Read more [...]

CHILDREN ARE RESILIENT

What is meant when pundits say that ‘children are resilient’? As a person who was traumatized in childhood, it never ceases to amaze me how professionals, after tragedies like school shootings, continue to say that ‘children are resilient’. Does it mean that children suppress their memories and experiences and come bouncing back to ‘normal’ life? Or that somehow a magic wand eliminates the memory of trauma from the brain rendering the child with loss of memory? It would appear that no Read more [...]