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Okay you grown-up types - this page is just for you!

I too am a parent (I have a 5 year-old daughter, as well as an 11-year old stepson), and understand much about looking out for the welfare of our children and the world in which they grow up in.

I feel it is an honour to be able to make music for children (and with children, see SongPowerMP3, and Workshops), and I aspire to sow the best seeds I can for these kids with words, music, ideas, and information. They are our future.

On this page I would like to offer parents and educators a few links and articles and comments related to children's health. "Health" of course is not just our bodies, but our minds, emotions, and sense of spirit as well.

Our children's education is our education also - we can only offer them what we have of ourselves... learning truly is a lifelong process. I feel it is up to each of us own our own education, and I encourage this to kids (and try to live by it myself). It is up to us to discover what we truly desire to discover in this world, far beyond what we're asked to learn through school.

I personally have a passion for knowledge and wisdom in many facets of life. I will gladly buck "common knowledge" if it doesn't make sense (which a lot of what we're fed these days doesn't). I encourage free thinking and open exploration of ideas. I am concerned with the effects of media and advertising on our children's minds. I am deeply concerned with the abuse of power that many major corporations and politicians have exercised throughout the world, and the impact this has had on the "state of the world" today. Our environment is ourselves. Our environment is really everything around and even within us. It is our health and our children's health on the outside and the inside. I do believe it up to ourselves to find truth for our families, and I don't always believe we can find this truth in the so-called mainstream. We have to look for it wherever we can find it and do our best to discern. There is no easy answer. We are a community of One on this planet really, and in that we all share a common humanity.

So - hopefully without pushing my opinions and overstepping my boundaries as a performer - I humbly submit to you a few of my favourite things:

Health:

Autism: Dr. Turner - cranial adjustments. My daughter was officially diagnosed with a high functioning autism when she was three, with a severe language delay. Her emotions were very up and down, and she simply was not "present" much of the time. This of course led my wife and I on a quest for knowledge of WHY?! The short answer is that there are a number of things that can work together to "shut down" the brain development in certain ways. Dr. Turner is a chiropractor based in Toronto who has pioneered cranial adjustments.

I have been taking her for treatments by the wonderfuly Dr. Lynes in Stettler, AB (who practices Dr. Turner's techniques) for the past year, and I am happy to report my daughter is "just about" caught right up with language. She still has some catching up to do, as she missed a good two years of normal development, but she picks language up more naturally now. She was immediately more "present" with us after her first treatment, and her emotions were one of the first things to stabilize (it is a process, and language is near the end of the process in her case).

The pervasiveness of autism has been sharply on the rise in the past 15 years or so. We have had great success so far with Dr. Turner's techniques and so I pass this information on to you with the best of wishes. I can't tell you what a relief it is to have our daughter "back" and am very thankful for the Drs. Lynes and Turner's work. Many chiropractors across North America now practice Dr. Turner's techniques, and you may be able to find one near you by contacting his office. Good luck!

Coke vs. Water - here's a good one you may have seen around the internet before. Click here to view this amazing information. I think this speaks for itself as far as the health of our children goes.

Aspartame - Our good friend Donald Rumsfeld once held a position as CEO of Monsanto Corporation (((the same good people who bring us Genetically Modified Organisms ((which contain suicide genes (they die after one season - the first time in this planet's farming history this has happened), they are dominant genes (they overtake anything in their path), and, well, um, they're UN-NATURAL - hardly tested in any long-term independent studies... we ARE the long-term test... guinea pigs as it were... but I digress))).

Anyways, here's a few of many, many links on the dangers of aspartame. Please just google it and do your own research. As Winnie the Pooh would say: "On a scale of 1 to 10 - it's... not very good."

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t20223.html

http://www.newstarget.com/008511.html

Chlorine - coming soon.

Environment:

Tree-Free Paper - why does this not exist - or not in a significant, mainstream, office-supply way? It is only recently (late 19th century) that a process for pulping trees for paper was developed, and it takes huge amounts of energy resources and requires huge amounts of toxicity, which then pollutes everything in its' path. There are papers made of hemp, bananas, sugarcane, wheat, flax, rice, cotton and many other RENEWABLE, SUSTAINABLE CROPS (not cut-em-down-once-and-wait-100-years-forests). Why is this not the norm in a world with the ecological disaster brewing as it is?

I challenge the paper companies, especially those who sponsor children's events and promote the "environment" to go far beyond mere recycling and move into tree-free, crop-based paper. This is a no-brainer to me.

What are the costs of this paper? Well, yes - what are the costs to our children's future? Do the real math and it adds up quick.

more info coming soon...

Thoughts on any of the above? Please feel free to email me!

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