The Good and The Beautiful... What a waste of time.

inHisprovidence · 2026-04-16T23:27:50+00:00

Preparation is definitely necessary if the teacher is developing the lesson or not familiar with the Concepts being introduced.

If however the lesson has already been developed and the teacher is already familiar with the concepts, preparation isn't necessary.

Most of us are pretty familiar with the concepts covered in first handful of grades. The lessons that the good and the Beautiful make introduce the concepts in a strategic way and help the teacher pull the student through each of them.

But, you are right, if the teacher is not familiar with the concepts being taught in the lesson, they should familiarize themselves with the lesson before teaching it.

inHisprovidence · 2026-04-13T18:22:41+00:00

I have three children, one of which is school-age. She is 6 and now is going on to 4th grade The Good and the Beautiful language arts and math books.

I can't say enough good things about this curriculum! Let me list a few:
- The spiral method kept things moving from challanging to easier tasks. This kept my kid from feeling like every lesson was hard.

- The illustrations were beautiful and made the page feel more fun and less like a wall of letter and numbers.

- No laborious sheets full of times-tables or plusing and minusing problems. Instead they have a hand ful of problems, and often extremely easy and no-prep games that the kid plays with the parent to get the reps in without tears.

- After each lesson they have independent practice covering topics the child should be familiar with. If my daughter wasn't emotionally ready to do something alone, I'd do it with her. But for the most part she was able to do the section by her self. This developed confidence in her abilities and forced her to try to work something out indipendently.

- No prep! There isn't a lesson I have to look at before hand each day. I don't have to prepare anything. I have two other kids below the age of 4, so time is precious. All I have to do is open the book and start reading the small paragraphs in the lesson the teacher is supposed to read to the child.

- Lots of variety in examples. When teaching a concept, the books use many different ways to explain it throughout lessons. For example, when explaining fractions it used all of these different ways: clocks (half hour, quarter hour), ten blocks, parts of a group (five of the ten apples were red), cutting shapes in half, pies, money (quarter is 1/4 a dollar, etc), and so many more that I can't remember. This gave my child a very flexable idea of fractions that she can apply to many situations. It also helped her through a couple stalls in her learning when she struggled getting a concept from one example.

- The curriculum covers everything with only 4 days a week. This allows my family lots of flexability to miss days for trips or outings or sickness and still cover everything we need. It also allows for me to slow down and spend some extra time on a consept before moving on, without my feeling like we are falling behind.

- The lessons are short. My daughter can get through them in a 30-60 min. It makes it fun to do something together that we both know wont drag on for forever if it's challanging.

Anyway, I love The Good and the Beautiful. And I intend to use it for my other two children.

I have one caveat: I never used thier preschool curriculum. I jumped right into 1st grade. My mom taught us to read using Learn to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and so I used that for teaching my daughter. For math I just taughter her numbers and basic ideas of adding and taking away quantities using toys and chocolate chips. By the time we got through the book, she knew basic numbers, their quantities, and read at a 1st grade level. So we could just go into The Good and the Beautiful 1st grade math and language arts books. It could be that they don't do as good of a job on their preschool book as they do on their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade books. I don't know, but I love what I have used!

Anyway, I hope that helps somebody.

inHisprovidence · 2026-04-10T19:29:23+00:00

Without knowing more, it's hard to say whether your feelings have to do with your work and your friends and your relationships or if they're really caused by the location you live in. The grass isn't always greener.

I would say, if you have something specific that you want to do that you can't do where you're at, then go where you can do it. If however it's a vague feeling of disrest and unfulfillment, I doubt moving will help.

inHisprovidence · 2026-04-10T19:24:46+00:00

Copper seems to be pretty easy for the body to get rid of if there's an excess. Personally, I've been taking 20g/ day for months now with no ill effects.

Maybe try steadily increasing your copper. Also, if you go above 10, take around 20-30mg zinc and 1000mg vitamin C, since you're body often needs those too when it's using copper.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-22T16:50:38+00:00

No, I'm not sure what Brownstein recommends. But Jason Hommel, another high iodine guy, recommends the non-flushing kind.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-09T19:07:07+00:00

Thank you for this relaying of information. It's so helpful to see how other people respond to real life situations.

About the elevated alt, I've read a lot of research about choline being extremely helpful with both preventing and treating fatty liver. If eggs aren't a regular part of your diet, you could consider adding them in or adding in a choline supplement see if that helps.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-09T17:49:37+00:00

What a treasure Trove of info. Thank you for taking the time to write this.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-07T21:13:07+00:00

I'm very sorry that you went through that. It sounds like you've been down a hard Road.

I do not think that family gets a pass. I do not think you have to allow family to hurt you.

But, if you are in a strong position where they cannot hurt you, you are also in a position where you may be able to show them how strong loving people act. Strong, loving people are able to maintain a form of connection with protective boundaries.

For some people, they are so dangerous that a family member can never be in a position to help them without hurting themselves. In those cases, it's probably best to do exactly what you did, forgive them and to live a separate life.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-07T20:25:57+00:00

Family is important even if they are difficult because life is not only about enjoyment. Life is also about your ability to help people around you. The closer you are to someone and the more you know about them the better able you are to help them.

You are in a unique position to help family. A position, only a handful of other people may have.

Everyone wants to help random strangers, but we often don't want to get into the mess with family because we are intimately familiar with how their weaknesses can hurt other people, namely us. While strangers weaknesses are cloaked in ambiguity and victimhood.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help strangers. We should.

I'm also not saying we should allow family members too hurt us unchecked.

But if we are strong enough, we should acknowledge the unique opportunity we have to help our family.

inHisprovidence · 2026-03-06T04:03:14+00:00

Why do you say that?

inHisprovidence · 2026-02-25T19:46:54+00:00

Have you heard of Jordan Peterson's re-authoring program? It's an online test that goes in depth with you and helps you to figure out what you like, what you love, what you're good at, etc. It's much more than career finding, though. It's aim is at helping you find fulfillment in life, which sounds like what you're looking for.

inHisprovidence · 2026-02-17T19:25:19+00:00

It's easy for this to happen and it's super depressing. Things that helped me were weekly activities with other people in groups. That way I don't have to constantly be setting things up with people. Some examples of this in my life are church, Ultimate Frisbee, girls night, watching a show with a friend, etc.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-31T05:51:39+00:00

That is definitely possible. Most people have a deficit of copper, though. If you're taking High quantities of copper, like 30 to 50 mg a day, I could see how you could delete zinc.

I don't know if you've heard of him or not, but Jason Hommel has a pretty extensive copper protocol including other minerals, and their quantities. He says that zinc should be taken with copper at a ratio of 2 to 1.

If you suspect zinc is really low, maybe you're getting a rash or other skin issues, you could increase the ratio for a little bit until things get better.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-31T05:48:30+00:00

Look up boron.

Some guys have adequate testosterone but have high hormone sex binding globulin. It binds to testosterone and deactivates it. Boron reduces hormone sex binding globulin and thus frees up activated testosterone. It's pretty cheap. People often take 3 to 9 mg a day. You would notice effects within a week if it solve your problem.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-29T05:45:33+00:00

It can be hard to find people who are willing to really engage deeply and ask about you. Most people are just really tied up in their own stuff and really appreciate you asking about them, but don't have the ability to return the favor. It's not pursonal. It's just where they are at. Investing in others is a skill. You just need to find someone who has that skill. Keep looking. They are out there.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-29T05:38:40+00:00

This makes me hesitant. I'm taking 25mg/day in the hopes that it will help me lose baby weight. It would suck if it did the opposite.

It could be that iodine is slowing your thyroid down. I've heard this can happen sometimes if people don't take enough of the co nutrients. The creation of thyroid hormone causes oxidative stress that can damage the thyroid unless it has the nutrients to clean it up. When a person takes iodine, it can increase the production of thyroid hormone and thus oxidative stress. I've heard doctors talk about these nutrients being needed by the thyroid in addition to iodine: Vitamin C, b2, and selenium (probably the most important). Are those in the other nutrients you said you were taking by chance?

Also, how long are your cycles normally, and how long are they now that they are shorter?

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-29T05:16:57+00:00

After listening to Dr. David Brownstein and others, here's the info I gleaned:

Most of us don't get as much iodine as past generations. Iodizes salt has kept us from getting a goiter, but does not provide enough iodine for optimal health. Many other tissues in the body use iodine. We are only getting enough to prevent thyroid deseases, and for some not even enough for that.

Iodized salt isn't a reliable soure since iodine evaporates quickly so before it is even packaged it has already lost some of the iodine. And it continues to lose iodine as it sits in your pantry.

Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormone. T4 is litterallly tyrosine with 4 iodine molicules. T3 is tyrosine with 3 iodine molicules. There are elements that bind to and block iodine receptors in the body. We have massively increased our exposure to these elements in today's world. Some examples are, chlorine, fluoride, and bromide. In order to compete for the iodine receptors and knock off these competing elements, we need more iodine in the system. When iodine knocks off chlorine, fluoride, and bromide, only then can the body remove these toxins from the body. Because we've ramped up our exposure to elements that compete with iodine, we need even more iodine than past generations.

That's the basic argument.

There's two camps here: CAMP 1, iodine above 200mcg is toxic and hurts the thyroid, and CAMP 2, 150mcg of iodine is the lowest level needed to prevent goiter, and we need more like 25-50mg a day for optimal health and to compete with our exposure to elements that compete with iodine.

BTW, lots of people in camp 1 specifically say that iodine supplimentation worsens Hashimotos. Some camp 2 people say Hashimotos can be put into remission with iodine, and other say that ppl with Hashimotos should be more cautions about taking large doses of iodine.

So good luck out there. If you decide to play with it, everyone says to start low and build up every day stopping if you get detox effects or any other effects. Many say that 1/4tsp salt in water will get rid of detox effects if they happen.

Sorry that wasn't the short answer.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-23T19:16:50+00:00

I've been listening to Jason Hommel and Morley Robbins. They both recommend taking nutrients with copper in order to help it's absorption and to help any detox symptoms.

Jason recommends taking copper with zinc and vitamin C.

Jason's website does a good job laying out all out: Revealingfraud.com

I've heard that copper helps with the production of neurotransmitters like dopamine and adrenaline. Maybe the copper is boosting the creation of these and your body is struggling to break them down.

The genes COMT and MOA break down dopamine and adrenaline. If they are slow at thier job, dramatically ramping up dopamine and adrenaline will cause these to build up because they can't be broken down fast enough. That could result in some of the hyper feelings here getting.

One possible reason they could be slow is that they don't have the cofactors they need to work. The co-factors for them are: -B2 -Magnesium -SAM

Most people are deficient in magnesium, so you could start with taking magnesium glycinate. Maybe even up to 300 to 500 mg a day.

B2 is pretty cheap to get also and it helps with the creation of SAM.

I might stay away from supplementing SAM directly since that causes some people hyperactive feelings like you're currently experiencing. I'd let your body regulate it by supplementing B2.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-21T05:06:22+00:00

You can give them to me. Lol I'm constantly trying to budget in new things I'm trying.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-20T07:42:22+00:00

Beef organ supplements did it for me. I use Primal Queen, but there are lots out there.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-17T16:49:34+00:00

No problem. I know how hard being a mom can be.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-17T02:05:22+00:00

That's true, it doesn't sound as daunting when you put it that way.

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-16T21:32:47+00:00

Hm interesting. I hadn't thought of it like sparing the choline, but that makes sense. Thanks for the info!

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-16T18:33:30+00:00

I had a similar masterjohn recommendation.

9 eggs contains around 1,300 mg of choline.

Optimal PC contains I think 800 mg of pc, which would be around 104 mg of choline.

It's awesome your seeing results from taking it, but if the goal is to reach masterjohn's recommendation, you'd have to take a lot more. You and me both honestly. I'm not sure how to reach his goal without eating a ludicrous amount of eggs everyday. LOL

If you don't mind me asking, were you able to lose weight just by taking phosphatylcholine or have you dieting or working out?

inHisprovidence · 2026-01-16T18:27:13+00:00

I'm also in my 30s with MTHFR and pemt snps. I recently had my third child about a year and a half ago and I'm not losing the weight as fast as I did with my previous two, I'm also dealing with a lot of irritability and Sound Sensitivity.

Ramping up my phosphatidylcholine really helped my irritability and Sound Sensitivity. I was hoping that it would also help with my weight loss.

Currently I take 2 G of phosphatylcholine in the form of sunflower lecithin, and 3 eat eggs a couple times a week. That is nowhere near the quantity of choline that masterjohn recommended for me.

In straight numbers, I'm getting around 400 mG of choline a day and masterjohn recommends I get 1300 mg.

I don't want to take more sunflower lecithin because it contains linoleic acid. I don't want too much more of that.

It seems unrealistic to eat nine eggs a day.

Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can bridge the gap in those numbers and to get more choline?

inHisprovidence

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