I know a lot of you are here because you’re interested in teaching your kids homeopathy, but you’re not sure how to do it. You’re not sure how my curriculum works and you’re not sure how to actually pull it off. And I’m sure it’s overwhelming to even think about adding one more thing to your plate. Overwhelm is a heavy burden, and I get it. It prevents us from doing a lot of things.
It’s completely normal—actually it would be abnormal—if you didn’t sometimes feel these feelings of overwhelm. But the problem is if you let the overwhelm take over and you miss the opportunity to teach your kids principles of health that will not only improve their ability to critically think through the wares Big Pharma pushes onto us, but that will last their entire lives and be passed onto their children.
It was feelings like this that ultimately pushed me to write my curriculum. I have faced all of these exact same challenges, and this curriculum is the antidote to those feelings. So today, I want to walk you through my curriculum so you can see how I specifically designed it for the overwhelmed, exhausted mom who does want to teach her kids about principles of TRUE health and homeopathy, but doesn’t see how she can add it into an already busy schedule.
UNIT 1
Unit 1 is basically setting the stage for us to get ready to learn about homeopathy. You can’t understand the power of the principles behind homeopathy if you don’t understand, for example, that your body was made to heal.
So first we focus on the concepts of terrain theory. Terrain Theory basically says that the health of your body will determine how well you overcome illness, or if you get sick at all! To teach this, we go into the story of Louis Pasteur—the famous French scientist who advanced germ theory, and the story of Antoine Béchamp—the French scientist who advanced terrain theory.
For a long time, I had heard people mention to me that these two men were contemporaries of each other and that they had a bitter feud. I had even heard that at a big medical conference in London, Pasteur stood on a podium in front of doctors from around the world and publicly accused Béchamp of being a liar. When I researched the story some more, I read that after Pasteur publicly accused Béchamp like this, he ran off the podium and out of the room. Béchamp, who was in the room and heard Pasteur, slowly began to approach the podium as Pasteur delivered his diatribe, and crossed his arms. The moment Pasteur dashed out of the room, Béchamp got on the podium to defend himself, and said that only a coward would say what he said and not allow an opportunity for the accused to defend himself. In the end, I learned that the actual liar was the man pointing the finger.
Today we know that Pasteur was a master liar. He had these lab notebooks where all his data was collected and written. He sealed these lab journals from the public and charged his family…all of his ancestors…to never reveal them to the public. When the last ancestor died, the journals were finally unsealed and turned over to a museum. Then a man named Gerald Geison studied the notebooks and compared them to the statements Pasteur made publicly, and they all found out that he actually lied about a lot of his findings. You can read about it in this newspaper article: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/16/science/doctor-s-world-revisionist-history-sees-pasteur-liar-who-stole-rival-s-ideas.html
The sad part is that the conclusion ultimately made by the medical community is that Pasteur lied but it’s ok, “because look at all he helped us learn”. Germ theory has prevailed and the common society sees this as a good thing. But in my curriculum we question that. We question, we question, we question—about the origins of this principle and we tear off the mask and say, maybe—just maybe—when something starts out as a lie, it leads to false conclusions.
In unit 1 we also look at the fact that drugs and antibiotics—all of which are founded on germ theory—have side effects. Kids study drug labels, and think about the inherent dangers with these drugs. I didn’t want kids to just jump into learning about Arnica. It’s not simply swapping Advil for arnica. If kids don’t understand the WHY then they won’t appreciate the how behind homeopathy. So unit 1 sets the stage.
UNIT 2
Unit 2 we shift into the history of homeopathy, and how it was discovered. This means that they are learning about the story of Samuel Hahnemann. You go on a journey of discovering what challenges Hahnemann faced and what drove him to seek out a better method of healing. We talk about blood letting and how Hahnemann said that doctors of his time were blood thirsty. You can actually download this segment of lessons for free if you go to PaolaBrown.com/Free.
We talk about the importance of asking questions, like Hahnemann did, and that if we don’t ask questions, we risk just falling to the mercy of whatever is being done in our day. It may not be bloodletting at the first sign of fever, but it certainly is going to be something else that is dangerous. Think about it. If our origins came from Pasteur’s lies, then the outcome of these lies are often not good. So here the kids learn about the law of like heals like and how it stimulates your body to cure itself. We also talk about the dangers of suppression.
UNIT 3
Unit 3 we look at how homeopathic remedies are by definition non-toxic, and we look at how they are made. We have a really really cool lesson about how homeopathy combines principles found in both nano particles and the concept of resonance. Throughout this program, there are a lot of short supplemental videos that you’re showing your kids. These are all found in the Online Teacher’s area, and in this unit in particular, there are some REALLY cool videos that took me dozens and dozens of hours to create, but they were well worth the effort!
UNIT 4
Unit 4 is finally where you learn about 19 different homeopathic remedies. I had to be careful. My legal department told me that I can’t teach children how to prescribe medicine…in the USA homeopathy is legally a drug per the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, so we toed that line carefully. We focus on kids learning the keynotes to all 19 remedies and being able to identify symptoms associated with each of the 19 remedies.
Truly, if you teach your kids about these 19 remedies, and they know them by heart, they will be SET UP FOR LIFE. The workbook assignments get really fun here because they actually make their own little materia medica. I provided a video on how they can do their own book binding where we actually sewed them. The kids do an entry for each of the 19 remedies in their own materia medica.
Also, I’ll just say that I THOUGHT I understood these remedies before writing this curriculum. But it wasn’t until I dug in DEEP on these remedies and taught my kids that I really began to understand the depth and power of these remedies. I was skating on the surface. What was cool about this unit is that I actually interviewed 2 different people about the remedies. For a portion of them, I was able to interview Christophe Mervill, who is the lead pharmacist at Boiron USA. He was so knowledgeable about each remedy. Then I also interviewed a colorful and awesome homeopath from the UK, Annie Batcherlor who ran a school for many years and is just a lovely person.
How My Curriculum is Designed for the Overwhelmed Mom
Open-and-Go
When I say my curriculum is open-and-go, I really mean that. You take the teacher’s manual, open to lesson 1, and it tells you exactly what you need to do to get started. Lesson 1 tells you to read a chapter out of the storybook, Evie and the Secret of Small Things, and then it guides you through a discussion you can have on the reading.
All of the lessons tell you to read a chapter from the book and include an art journaling activity where kids can do an art-oriented piece related to the story. So, for example, in the first story you meet Evie’s family who are all of Cherokee Native American heritage. They’re making crafts at a family reunion and one of the crafts is a dream catcher. So the first art journaling activity is a paint-dot activity where they make dream catchers.
Then the next 2 lessons in the teacher’s manual take the chapter you just read from the storybook and go a bit deeper. They lift concepts from the story and dissect them. So, for example, in the story Evie begins learning about the fact that drugs have side effects, so the kids in the next lesson will be reading drug labels and thinking about side effects. So the pattern is 1 lesson that is a ‘read aloud’ lesson and the next two lessons are ‘dig deeper’ lessons where you delve deeper into the concepts.
Audio Narration
Now, I’m a busy mom, and I don’t always have time to read aloud. This is why we have a narrated storybook option that you can also get so you can cook dinner and have the kids listen to the narration. This was done by a professional voice over actor and it’s really quality work.
Intentional Pacing
I also think it’s important that this curriculum fits with your semester plan and your plan for the school year. It’s made up of 39 lessons, and that means that if you teach one lesson a week, you can get through it in one school year, or, if you teach two lessons a week you can get it done in a semester. I’ve even had some families who just read through the storybook one year and then come back and do the dig-deeper lessons the next year. Please remember, you don’t have to do every last thing in each lesson! Pick and choose what works for you.
One-room Schoolhouse Approach
Another thing that is important is the fact that this is a one-room school house approach. That means you teach out of ONE teacher’s manual, work out of ONE storybook, and the only thing that changes are the leveled workbooks. When the Teacher’s Manual assigns an assignment from the work book, pretty much all the students have that same assignment, but the assignment has been adapted by age.
So let’s think back to the assignment where kids read a drug label. The level 1 workbook for grades 1-3 will be looking at a single drug label that has been simplified for them. It’s for acetaminophen, and rather than saying jaundice it says, yellow skin. Rather than saying diarrhea, it says, watery stool. Then they color the symptoms onto the human body.
For level 2 kids, that’s grades 4-8, they are getting the original language on the drug label, but we provide 3 drug labels. Aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen and they think about polypharmacy, how these side-effects compound when you’re taking several meds. They too color the symptoms onto the little human body we provide them.
Then finally for level 3 kids, that’s grades 9-12, they are actually doing what every adult should do before they take a drug. That is, sit down at a computer and research the drugs. They do also get a human body to add the symptoms to, but their human body is in the anatomical position and they learn about what that means. They also get an added essay-assignment that allows them to think about what happens when drugs are pulled from the market.
Multidisciplinary
Ok, so by now, you can see that this curriculum is really multidisciplinary. If you are doing multiple subjects with your kids because you’re a homeschooler, you can easily drop artwork, because that is incorporated heavily in this curriculum. You can also drop your science block, because obviously this is covering health, but we do also do some actual science experiments including some seed experiments and there are even detailed instructions on hatching your own chicks.
We also include penmanship and you can do handwriting with your kids. For the older kids, there will be more writing involved, and on weeks where my older boys had an essay to write for this curriculum, we skipped their normally programmed writing assignment. There is even an opportunity for debate and rhetoric if you want. So this curriculum really will fit into your schedule well and you can plan out the rhythm of the other assignments you are working on.
This program is designed to pass on GENERATIONS of health to your kids. This curriculum gives your kids a long-term perspective which is vital to achieving long term health. I don’t just want you and your kids to be healthy. I want to empower you to have healthy children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I want you to instill in your family a legacy of health, not disease. I’m hoping that this overview was helpful to you in seeing all the ways I’ve worked to streamline and simplify my curriculum so that it can fit into your life. I want you to have generations of health.
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