Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000195
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00:01 Where does a parent get information for rearing a child?
00:04 There's a good bit written out there. 00:07 What of it is good, and what is not good has to be studied. 00:10 We will have some principles that may help you to sort out 00:14 which of the information that you have available could be 00:18 really good... 00:19 So we hope you will join us for this program. 00:43 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" 00:44 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 00:47 And now, here's your host, Dr. Thrash 00:51 Now while not everything that you will find in print 00:54 is going to be helpful for you to rear your child, 00:58 there are some things that can be very helpful, 01:01 but you will find a GREAT number of journals and 01:06 and magazines such as this one that I hold... 01:09 And as I have read through this I have found that there's a 01:12 good bit of good information in it. 01:15 But then there are some things that I would be 01:17 just as happy not to have parents believe that 01:20 that was something good. 01:22 I find that the very best thing in print all around 01:26 is a book called "Child Guidance" 01:28 When my children were very small, 01:32 I didn't have this book available to me, 01:34 but, later in their lives, I did, and I felt that 01:37 I made some corrections that were just absolutely wonderful 01:41 that helped me a lot in rearing my children. 01:45 Some of the principles there were of such a nature 01:48 that I could make certain that the program was good 01:52 even if I didn't know certain scientific principles... 01:56 or averages in the rearing of my children, 01:58 and in the control of their health habits. 02:01 I have some aids, some charts, that I would like to 02:06 show you that will help you to know about the average 02:10 height of a child, and just how nicely you can 02:15 judge just how your children should stack up with the 02:20 averages. 02:21 Now, the average height in children... 02:24 the age x 2 + 32 equals the height 02:32 To give you an example... 02:35 Let's say a 2-1/2-year-old child multiply that by 2 02:40 you'll get 5... then 5 + 32 =37 02:45 So, the height at about 2-1/2 years should be 02:49 around 37 inches. 02:51 Now, that can be a guideline for you with the height. 02:55 But now, we have the weight. 02:57 We need to know what the average weight is 03:00 ...what might be considered to be a normal weight. 03:03 Although, I guess there is no person that actually 03:08 fully falls in the normal range. 03:12 We hardly even know what a normal range is for children. 03:15 But the birth weight should be between 6 and 8 pounds. 03:19 If a person is over 8 pounds at birth, 03:22 that increases the risk that a person would get 03:25 diabetes later in life... 03:27 And it also increases the risk that the mother will develop 03:31 diabetes some time in her life. 03:33 Then at 6 months, the child should 03:36 roughly double the birth weight. 03:38 At 12 months, roughly triple the birth weight. 03:42 At 24 months, quadruple the birth weight. 03:47 So that will help you a lot to know about averages. 03:50 Now an average weight in children... 03:53 Let's give an example... 04:04 So that can help you with that. 04:08 This is in the very young age, 04:12 but now what about after the age of 3... 04:15 Then we have some different parameters that we need to check 04:18 to let us know what the person should weigh after the age of 3 04:22 If we take the age, multiply that by 5 and add 17, 04:30 that will give us the average weight after the age of 3 04:34 Let's notice this example... 04:35 A 4-year-old child, multiply that by 5, gives 20 04:40 20 + 17 gives 37, so at the age of 4, 04:44 the little child should be around 37 pounds. 04:49 So that can be very helpful to you to know just what 04:53 can be the average height and weight of children. 04:58 If your child doesn't fall within this range, 05:02 don't be greatly upset, because that probably just 05:05 means that if your child LOOKS normal height 05:09 FEELS normal weight, then you're probably all right 05:14 with your child, even if he doesn't fall EXACTLY 05:17 within this range that I gave you here. 05:21 Children who grow up very fast are subject to a 05:25 wide variety of illnesses that we never had before 05:29 because our children are growing up much too 05:32 fast in our age. Why is this happening? 05:35 Well, it's because of our lifestyle in this modern society 05:39 And, if you will study your child's lifestyle, 05:42 study also their height, and weight, 05:45 make certain they are not greatly exceeding 05:48 the height and weight charts. 05:50 In fact, it would be good if they were no more 05:52 than just average. 05:54 Now if your child is gaining WAY too fast, 05:57 getting tall WAY to fast... 06:00 they're in the husky sizes for each of the ages that 06:04 they pass through, 06:05 then you need to take better care of your child's lifestyle 06:11 ...the exercise, the sedentary habits that they have, 06:15 the diet that they have, what snack foods 06:18 they have between meals, and personally, 06:21 I see no reason for a child to have any snacks between meals 06:24 If you will train your child correctly, 06:26 they will not get hungry between meals. 06:28 Just put their meals about 5 to 7 hours apart 06:32 and they won't get hungry between meals unless 06:35 you've trained them to get hungry between meals. 06:38 Our schools tend to train them. 06:40 But one of the problems in being overweight, 06:43 is that children are now getting gallbladder disease 06:45 when they NEVER used to do it. 06:47 We used to say the signs of gallbladder disease were 06:53 fourfold... FAT, FAIR, FEMALE, and 40 06:58 We can no longer say that because they may not be 07:02 fair any more... 07:03 They are now darker-skinned individuals also getting 07:08 gallbladder disease. 07:09 The 40, you can forget that number because 07:13 we now see gallbladder disease at almost any age... 07:16 even in 12 year olds, or 8 year olds... 07:19 They may have gallstones and have to have 07:23 the gallbladder operations. 07:25 We also recognize that it's not altogether females. 07:30 Now males also have the problem because men and boys 07:36 are just as overweight as little girls are which 07:40 did not used to be. 07:41 It used to be that most of the time, it was the little girls 07:45 who tended to be overweight, rather than the little boys. 07:49 Gallbladder disease may also be the herald of some other 07:53 problems in childhood, and sometimes we may not 07:58 relate psychological problems to lifestyle, 08:03 but they certainly are related. 08:05 One of those is delinquency, or crime in childhood. 08:09 With me now is Dr. Donald Miller 08:13 and he is going to talk with you some about crime, 08:16 and crime in childhood is on the rise. 08:20 You've probably seen the study 08:22 that was done a number of years ago... 08:24 what was the major problems with children, 08:25 teenagers in the 1950s, compared to what was 08:29 the major problem with teenagers I think this study was done 08:32 in the 80s. 08:33 Some of the major problems in the 1950s was cutting in line, 08:37 talking in class, chewing gum, throwing spit wads... 08:41 A pretty rough group back then! 08:44 But then they looked at the problems with the children 08:45 in the 80s, and I would say probably even today 08:48 in our schools... What are the major problems we're having? 08:51 We're having assaults. We're having murders. 08:53 We're having rapes. We're having unbelievable 08:55 amount of problems with the children today. 08:58 Now I'm not saying ALL children, but we're seeing a very 09:01 BIG rise in the temperament of the children in our schools 09:05 today, and outside of our schools. 09:07 What is causing this unbelievable 09:09 rise in crime in the schools? 09:11 One of the things can be the unstructured home life. 09:14 Children now come home and they're raised by their peers. 09:19 They're raised by their televisions. 09:20 And what are they seeing on the television? 09:22 What are they hearing in their music? 09:24 They've got music today, if you listen to the words, 09:27 and I don't, every once in a while I hear, I catch a snatch 09:30 while filling up gas, the very music is promoting 09:34 a violent lifestyle. 09:37 There's a very interesting quote that I have... 09:39 It is by Aristotle... and he basically says, 09:43 "If you listen to ignoble music, you will become 09:47 ignoble yourself. " 09:48 "If you listen to noble music, music of a higher level, 09:52 you will rise to that same level. " 09:54 Listen to the music today, don't listen to it too long... 09:57 But you're going to find that it is driving a person back down 10:00 The television is promoting crime in the child. 10:06 But, I think one of the BIGGEST things 10:08 is these video games. 10:10 A child sits down to their computer, and they can sit there 10:14 and kill 100 people before breakfast. 10:17 It's violence, it's just pure violence. 10:21 And you cannot be exposed to this much violence 10:24 for such a long period of time and not have it make 10:27 some type of an effect on your mind. 10:29 There's a very good principle in the Bible... 10:31 By beholding, we become changed into the same image. 10:35 And so what image are you allowing 10:38 your children to observe... 10:39 And children out there, what are you watching? 10:41 WHAT do you want to be like? 10:43 Do you want to be like that Kung-Fu master over there? 10:47 Or would you like to be like Jesus? 10:48 We need to spend more time 10:50 looking at THAT which we'd like to become. 10:52 The foods that we eat today... 10:54 They did an interesting study called "The Tidewater Study" 10:57 And Tidewater is a prison. 10:59 And what they did in this prison, is they withdrew 11:03 3 different things from their lifestyles. 11:05 They withdrew caffeinated beverages, 11:09 cola drinks, things like that, and chocolate. 11:11 They withdrew refined carbohydrates, 11:13 and they withdrew sugary junk foods 11:16 ...just those simple 3 things 11:18 none of which we need for our lives. 11:20 None of which we need to make us grow 11:23 healthier, happier or anything else. 11:24 They withdrew these 3 things from criminals, 11:28 these are grown men in the prison, 11:30 they withdrew these things, and they found that 11:32 assaults diminished, robberies, thefts from other prisoners 11:38 diminished, malicious horseplay diminished 11:42 Everything went down that prisoners seemed to get 11:45 a little bit more together because their diet 11:49 just those 3 things. 11:50 Those 3 things are what our children are living on today. 11:53 Our children come home from school, the first thing they do 11:56 is grab some gooey snack food. 11:58 Grab some soda on the way home from school. 12:01 And all of these things are going to excite something 12:04 inside their bodies. 12:05 They did another interesting study with rats. 12:08 They had 1 group of rats, and they fed it the typical 12:12 teenage diet which included some good things, 12:16 some salads and green beans, but a lot of the bad things 12:19 that our children are typically growing up on today. 12:21 And then they offered them, in the cage, 2 choices... 12:25 Straight water, or water with 10% alcohol 12:29 And they observed the rats, and they found that the rats 12:32 went to the alcohol about 52% of the time. 12:36 Now you might say, "Well, a rat doesn't know 12:38 the difference between water and alcohol, 12:40 they just drank what they had, and 50% went one way, 12:42 and 50% went the other way. 12:43 Well, then they had a second cage of rats... 12:46 This cage of rats, they gave Purina Lab Chow for rats... 12:51 especially made for rats living in these types of 12:54 experimental conditions. 12:56 Same 2 choices with the alcohol, 12:59 these rats went to the alcohol 18% of the time. 13:02 But then we have a third group of rats... 13:05 Same 2 choices, but they were getting a vegetarian diet. 13:09 If I was a rat, I'd want to be in this group 13:11 A vegetarian diet, they went to the alcohol 2.7% of the time. 13:16 Unbelievable difference! 13:18 And the alcohol is a gateway to other problems. 13:21 And as we go up the line... 13:22 You see, children today are out-of-control because 13:24 they are into EVERYTHING else in the world. 13:26 We need to SLOW them down. 13:29 Get them into something that's going to cause their minds to be 13:32 placed in looking upwards to something 13:36 far better as an example. 13:38 So, we need to get our children away from these things... 13:40 the TV, the media, the radio, the CDs... 13:46 just unbelievable the assault on our children today. 13:49 And, it's going to cause a much bigger crime wave than 13:53 what we are seeing today, and we need to get our children. 13:56 We need to reclaim our children. 13:57 Dr. Thrash... We going to lose them. 13:58 That's for sure. 14:00 One of the problems with growing up too fast and being too active 14:04 in certain areas is that of nearsightedness. 14:08 I'd like to draw for you on the board a diagram of the eye 14:13 so that you can see just how nearsightedness could occur 14:16 in a person who reads too much, and who is growing up too fast. 14:23 Let's just say that this represents the eye. 14:26 This is the cornea here... just a little bit of a bulge 14:30 and then the eye comes around like this, 14:35 maybe I've made that just a little bit off center... 14:38 And we have then, here the lens just at the front of the 14:46 eye like this, and then light rays come 14:51 into the eye from afar, and we can say they come in 14:55 relatively straight, just about like this 14:58 And where they come into the lens, 15:03 they are then focused so that the rays actually strike 15:09 on the back part of the retina, and focus there. 15:14 Now that's in a person who has a normal size eye. 15:19 But in a child who is reading too much, 15:23 growing up too fast, the eyeball will actually be larger, 15:29 and so the person focuses in front of the retina 15:35 Such a person is said to be nearsighted. 15:38 Now, if the person has a failure to thrive, 15:42 they may, usually not, but they may get a small 15:46 eye and the focus is behind them. 15:49 This person is farsighted. 15:52 So, nearsightedness with the focus occurring before the rays 15:57 get to the retina, this nearsightedness is getting to be 16:02 far more common in our day. 16:04 So, ophthalmologists are seeing children who are 16:08 just 4 and 5 years of age, who have been reading, 16:12 or doing close work with the eyes for many years 16:15 ...and that, of course, encourages nearsightedness. 16:18 Now, we have also another problem... 16:22 precocious puberty in children is today a very serious problem. 16:28 In some countries of the world, it is considered to be 16:31 in epidemic proportions. 16:33 Only recently, it began to be considered to be epidemic 16:38 in the United States. 16:40 Children getting their menstrual period, or coming into their 16:46 puberty with axillary hair, and pubic hair FAR in advance of 16:52 the time that they used to many years ago. 16:54 So, Dr. Miller is going to talk with us a bit about 16:57 precocious puberty, and some of its causes. 17:01 You know, you look back in the 1880s, at the time a child 17:05 would reach puberty basically when the time that they 17:07 could reproduce their generation, 17:10 it was usually between 16 and 18 years of age. 17:13 And, there are countries in the world today... it's still 17:16 up in that area because of certain lifestyle modifications. 17:20 But we find that today, about every decade, we're loping about 17:24 6 months off of the generation age. 17:29 And today, basically, the puberty, on the average, 17:33 is around 11. 17:34 I read an article which was SO startling to me... 17:37 It said, "1 in 6 girls reaches puberty by the age of 8" 17:41 That means a child, at the age of 8 years old, 17:45 has all the hormones, and the developing equipment to be a 17:50 full grown woman, but she has the experience of a child. 17:54 A boy has an experience of a boy. 17:56 And what do you do, when you have that situation? 17:59 It's a serious, serious problem in the world today. 18:01 They were observing, epidemiologists, 18:05 a particular problem of precocious puberty. 18:07 It was happening in Puerto Rico some years ago. 18:10 And I've seen the studies, and I have seen the pictures 18:13 which were some extremely alarming pictures. 18:15 They found a whole group of children to be developing 18:20 extremely quick... we're talking about young boys 18:23 5, 6, 7 with developed breasts. 18:27 We're talking about all the secondary 18:29 sexual characteristics... pubic hair, everything, 18:33 the voice dropping... 18:34 We're talking about children WAY before their teens 18:37 coming into this problem. 18:38 They started saying, "What is the problem we're having here" 18:41 This was a serious epidemic. 18:43 So they sent the epidemiologist down there to search out 18:47 why are all these children... 18:48 They found out that all of these children were from homes 18:52 of parents who worked right down the road at the chicken 18:56 factory. 18:57 We find that a chicken... I was raised partly on a farm, 19:01 and every spring we'd buy a whole clutch of eggs 19:05 and we'd incubate them, and they'd hatch out 19:07 And it took about 12 weeks, at the minimum for them to get 19:10 to be what we call, a garish thought... "fryer age. " 19:14 They've got that down, in many places, to 8 weeks. 19:19 But I was in Japan not long ago, and a man was telling me 19:23 that he has a friend in South America, 19:25 that his father runs one of these places, 19:28 and they've got it down to, I don't know how they 19:30 did this, 18 days! 19:31 Now can you imagine taking a little fluffy chick 19:36 to the size so they can be killed and eaten in 18 days. 19:41 I mean, 8 weeks is bad enough. 19:42 How do they do that... hormones. 19:44 The children are receiving these hormones through the food 19:47 because if you give the hormone to an animal, 19:49 and you eat the animal, you get the hormones. 19:52 And these are hormones that accelerate the growth, 19:55 and that's what we're seeing in children today... 19:57 an acceleration in their growth. 19:59 That's was we call "precocious puberty" 20:01 We need to slow it down. 20:04 How do you slow it down? 20:05 I would recommend you get on the most simple diet 20:07 that you can... fruits, vegetables, 20:10 whole grains, nuts and seeds. 20:12 If they eat those things, 20:14 they're getting all the calcium they need. 20:16 They're getting all the protein they need. 20:18 Throw in some organic vegetables, have them eat it 20:20 without peeling it. 20:22 You're going to get your vitamin B12. 20:24 Have them eat a simple diet. 20:26 But there are other things that cause this 20:28 precocious puberty... is the avenues to the soul. 20:31 We need to guard, carefully, the avenues to the soul. 20:34 I've already talked about it in the crime in children. 20:36 We've got to watch what goes in the ears. 20:38 Watch what goes in the eyes, as well as what goes 20:41 in the mouth... and slow this process down 20:43 because you see precocious puberty OPENS THE DOOR 20:46 to all kinds of adult diseases. 20:49 And we find that the sooner a child grows up, 20:52 the sooner and the quicker they will grow down. 20:56 When I say grow down, start developing the adult diseases. 21:00 Adult-onset diabetes, osteoporosis, 21:03 coronary heart disease... all of these things are now 21:06 childhood diseases... It's a crime. 21:08 It should never have happened. 21:09 But you're going to find that a child who is 21:12 raised very simply... 21:15 Now the trouble with our society, you see this is also 21:18 a societal mindset. 21:20 You take the child out in public and your child 21:23 happens to be a little smaller. 21:24 they don't have all the muscles already and all the bulk to them 21:28 and they think that the child is being abused... 21:30 And they look over at this other child who already is a 21:32 foot taller, and already developing... 21:35 When I see a child, 10 years of age, already developing 21:39 their adulthood characteristics, I grieve for the parents 21:46 and I grieve for the child because that child 21:48 has things going on in their body that they have no idea 21:51 how to control because of their small experience. 21:54 And with that small experience, it's going to open up a gateway 21:58 to many, many problems. 22:00 And we need to SLOW this process down. 22:02 And if your child is growing slowly, don't worry 22:05 they will grow as tall as God has made them to grow 22:08 at the proper time. 22:09 Let them grow up at 18 and 19, not 8 and 9. 22:13 Those who are growing up at 8 and 9, are going to be 22:15 old people by the time they're 40. 22:17 Those who are growing up slower, will live to 60, 70, 80 and 22:21 still have that youthful vigor. 22:24 You see, taking all these things to our systems, 22:27 we do what's called, "we use up our vital force, 22:30 our vital capacity. 22:31 Moses, we're told, that at 120, his eye was not dim 22:36 nor his natural force abated. 22:39 But burning these types of fuels in the body, 22:42 these unclean fuels of these bad foods, 22:45 and this bad lifestyle, causes an acceleration of the burning 22:49 of our natural forces... 22:52 And so that when we get to those older ages, 22:54 we've found that we've worn ourselves out by 22:57 the time we're 40s and 50s 22:59 I've known people in their 50s who were OLD people already. 23:03 And I've known people in their 80s and 90s who were 23:06 still, in many ways, young people. 23:08 I want to keep my youth as long as possible, Dr. Thrash. 23:11 Amen! 23:12 One of those diseases that we get from growing up too fast, 23:16 getting too large is that of diabetes. 23:19 Again, this is a disease now of children. 23:22 We used to call this type 2 diabetes, adult-onset diabetes, 23:26 but now, we just call it type 2, because children 23:30 are also getting diabetes. 23:32 The cure, or the way to help it is, of course, 23:35 to slow down the process of development 23:39 in the ways that Dr. Miller mentioned so that 23:42 the child does not get that priming that will be obtained 23:47 from being overweight, too tall, too soon. 23:53 We have found that even the diet of the mother 23:57 primes the cells of the unborn child 24:02 so that they are more likely to get overweight later in life 24:06 So, for the woman to eat LARGE quantities of sugar, 24:11 or LARGE quantities of fat just because the appetite 24:14 calls for it during pregnancy, is a wrong thing for the child. 24:19 Some of these things are worse for the child, than the forms of 24:23 child abuse that everybody makes a large outcry for. 24:27 So, we want to be careful to handle that in a proper way. 24:32 Now, an unrelated problem, but actually pretty common 24:37 nowadays, is head lice in children. 24:42 In schools, they will have an outbreak, 24:44 and it will go through the school. 24:46 So Dr. Miller is going to talk with you a bit about 24:49 this problem of head lice, and what we can do about it. 24:52 I lived in Hawaii for a few years, 24:55 and there, they call lice a different word... 24:58 A lot of the language in Hawaii is Hawaiian, 25:03 so they call them "ukus" 25:04 And about once a week or so, a nurse would go through, 25:08 and check every single child's hair for ukus. 25:11 And, of course, we call them head lice. 25:13 We've got head lice, body lice, and pubic lice called "crabs" 25:17 and these things are basically transmitted by 25:20 SHARING our things. 25:21 Now we're told to train our children to share, 25:24 and sharing is a good thing, 25:25 but it's sharing the hats, sharing the combs, 25:29 sharing the brushes, sharing the clothing, 25:31 that will cause us to transmit these lice... 25:34 and they are a real problem. 25:36 I remember a number of years ago, some friends of mine 25:39 at Uchee Pines had gone out in the community 25:41 and found 2 young children living in a home, 25:45 and being raised by their grandparents, 25:48 and their grandparents were willing to let them be 25:50 taken over and every once in a while, they'd come to visit 25:54 and these children's hair were unbelievably infected 25:57 with lice. 25:58 You could look and almost every hair follicle had a number 26:02 of these little white things called "nits," the little eggs 26:04 and their hair was just teeming. 26:07 And, back then, I'm afraid what we used was some 26:10 of these antilice-type shampoos which are all toxic. 26:14 They all cause problems... we do not recommend them 26:17 anymore, and they didn't work anyway. 26:20 We had tried a nit comb, and tried to comb the nits out, 26:22 and they just would not get them all until we finally just 26:25 had to cut their hair off and start over fresh. 26:29 But trouble is, we take them back to their homes, 26:32 and in their homes, the bedding would be infected, 26:34 their clothing would be infected. 26:36 When you have lice, everything has to be cleaned up. 26:39 Also, you might think that washing you hair 26:43 and staying clean will help avoid getting these lice 26:47 Lice like cleanness, especially those head lice 26:50 They LIKE clean hair. 26:51 What they do, is they get up there... 26:53 they lay some eggs, and they live by sucking your blood. 26:55 There are a few things you CAN do besides 26:58 avoiding getting them by not 26:59 sharing with people, and every once in a while 27:02 checking to make sure you don't have them. 27:03 You can take some Neem oil, mix it with some turmeric, 27:08 and make a paste, and apply that to the hair, 27:10 and leave it on for a couple of hours. 27:13 You can take some kerosene, be careful with this, 27:15 but you can take some kerosene, work that into the hair, 27:18 wrap it up with a towel, leave that for a couple of hours. 27:21 Garlic is another one... 27:22 Make some garlic paste, work that into some oil, 27:25 work that into the hair. 27:27 The lice won't like this. 27:28 There are a number of things you can do... 27:30 The body lice don't like heat. 27:32 If you have the lice, you've got to sit there and wash 27:35 EVERYTHING in your surroundings... 27:36 ALL your clothes, ALL your bedding. 27:38 Take everything out, get everything clean 27:40 so you do not re-infect yourself. 27:42 There are some other things you can do 27:44 Citronella oil... we use that for mosquitoes. 27:47 But there are lots of things we can do for 27:48 nits and lice and I like them. 27:51 I'm sure that all these things will be very helpful 27:54 for you in dealing with these problems of children. |
Revised 2014-12-17