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hood Experiences” (ACEs) within the home, critically and question who is benefiting from such a well-orchestrated
saying one-half of America’s children have media campaign. As Dachel says, “I’ve heard horrible stories about the
experienced trauma: Oct. 20, 2017, Newsweek: home lives of kids. I’ve worked with kids Ma Barker might have raised,
“Children’s Mental Health: Nearly Half of U.S. but they weren’t like so many kids we are seeing today. This bogus theory
Kids Have Experienced Trauma.” The Washing- was to be expected, and it’s a brilliant move on the part of doctors and
ton Post wrote on Oct. 19, 2017: “Almost Half health officials who want to shift the conversation away from the vaccine
of D.C. Children Have Suffered a Traumatic controversy.”
Experience, According to Federal Survey.” And Experts not only blame our children’s poor mental health on bad
CNN called out parents for the “toxic stress” parenting, but also a range of other health issues including heart, lung and
they’re causing in children. Oct. 4, 2017, CNN: liver disease, cancer, and obesity: Sept. 17, 2017, Worcester Telegraph:
Little Kids and ‘Toxic Stress’: “We Can Solve “Addressing Childhood Traumas and Their Lifelong Implications.” And
This.” By conveniently placing the blame on then there’s this from the Washington University School of Medicine/
parents, officials can say they have the definitive St. Louis, Oct. 30, 2017: “Early Childhood Adversities Linked to Health
answer and ignore looking deeper into what is Problems in Tweens, Teens.” These reports say “We’ve known toxins in
really making our children so sick. This blame the environment can contribute to disease, but this study suggests that
game is reminiscent of the “refrigerator mom” kids can experience physical and mental health problems from exposure
theory health authorities wrongly touted as the to psychosocial ‘toxins’ too.” So there you have it…now we will blame
cause for the then-rare cases of autism in the ACEs for both mental and physical health problems in kids today so we
1950s. no longer have to look at the environmental factors, specifically vaccines.
Like Dachel, I’m not going to assert that
every problem facing children today is the fault WHO IS ASKING WHY?
of an out-of-control, ever-increasing vaccine Unbelievably, I have not read one mainstream news article about our
schedule—currently seventy doses of sixteen school crisis that objectively asks why our children are doing so poorly
vaccines—but in my opinion, injecting poisons psychologically, emotionally and behaviorally—not to mention physi-
such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, cally. Why are more than one in two children in the U.S. chronically ill?
Polysorbate 80, MSG, aborted fetal tissue, etc. Seizures, asthma, allergies, diabetes and obesity are all prolific among
into our children beginning at birth and in utero, children in schools today. I included obesity in this list of ailments on
is the number one culprit adversely affecting purpose, because vaccines cause that too (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
our children’s health. That said, we must realize pmc/articles/PMC4982359). One would think health professionals and
that we are living in a virtual toxic soup. The the media would want to know why there has been such an incredible
food we feed our children is not food, the toxins explosion of poor physical and mental health in children. In St. Louis
we expose them to are known carcinogens and up to four thousand students have asthma and six died last year. Sept. 9,
they spend an unprecedented amount of time on 2017, KLPR-TV, St. Louis, MO: Pulse of St. Louis, “Combating Asthma
screens and surrounded by Wi-Fi. The average in St. Louis and Alzheimer’s Awareness.” Included in this story is the
American child spends over seven hours a day fact that the district is working with the American Lung Association to
in front of a radiation-emitting screen. Do the educate teachers, students and parents about the condition.
math, that’s over one hundred days per year of Will this solve the problem? I doubt it. Instead, it will probably just
childhood lost to devices! increase pharmaceutical products for affected students—the same way
To be fair, there are of course instances that adding new health clinics to schools will increase vaccination. Aug.
where “trauma” or “toxic stress” can seriously 13, 2017, Chambersburg (PA) Public Opinion News: “CASHS Clinic Aims
affect a child’s health and education, especially to Offer Student Vaccinations.”
when those “ACEs” include physical and emo- And then there are the stories like this one, Sept. 6, 2017, New York
tional abuse or neglect. However, when over- Daily News: “Finally Getting Serious About Dyslexia.” Like autism, we
night there are literally dozens of nearly identi- are supposed to believe dyslexia has always been here and as a result of
cal stories blaming bad parenting (parents who better diagnosing, we’ve finally realized that one in five kids has it. But
discourage open communication, parents who according to this article, it’s not such a bad thing because lots of really cool
let their children watch TV, parents who yell a people like Bill Gates have it. Here, it’s worth mentioning that dysgraphia
lot, parents who are emotionally distant, parents (which affects writing ability) and dyscalculia (affecting mathematical
who spank their kids, and helicopter parents) processing) are also on the rise.
for our children’s poor health, we need to think We’d be remiss not to look at the soaring number of teen suicides

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