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2009-07-09T13:40:00.007-04:00

The posted article below was written by Parental Rights. Org. Please take the time to read this article it concerns every American. There is an Organization of International Law out there that is hungry to get control of the United States of America. This UN Law reminds me of the Borg from Star Trek the Next Generation. The Borg use to say, " Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile ! " Parental Rights.Org is an organization that informs us on the laws that are being forced upon us, and PRO also tells us what we can do to prevent these laws from over ridding our rights. There are very good links in the postings on this blog. Visit the articles posted in June 2009 titled Our parental rights are being taken away part 1 and 2. The links you will want to visit are Parental Rights.Org and HSLDA for more in depth details.

WHO DO YOU THINK HAS THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOUR

CHILDREN? . . YOU, the PARENTS, WHO are RESPONSIBLE and LOVE THEM DEARLY and KNOW THEM PERSONALLY?

OR THE UNITED NATIONS, WHO ONLY VIEW THEM AS COMMODITY

TO BE CONTROLLED AND USED AS THEY SEE FIT? . . Maybe you personally do not have

children, but what of your other family members and friends that do have children? . . And love

them with all their hearts, do you think the parents of those children would know what is better

for their family? . . PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS...I AM VERY INTERESTED TO KNOW

WHAT YOUR VIEW IS, BUT POST ONLY AFTER YOU READ THE INFORMATION POSTED
BELOW. THANK YOU.

We encourage you to have fun and click on any and all links on this blog. God bless you all.....

20 Things you need to know about the UN Convention on the Rights of the child

2009-07-09T13:33:00.000-04:00

Ten things you need to know about the structure of the CRC:

It is a treaty which creates binding rules of law. It is no mere statement of altruism.^1.

Its effect would be binding on American families, courts, and policy-makers.^2.

Children of other nations would not be impacted or helped in any direct way by our ratification.^3.

The CRC would automatically override almost all American laws on children and families because of the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI.^4.

The CRC has some elements that are self-executing, while others would require implementing legislation. Federal courts would have the power to determine which provisions were self-executing.^5.

The courts would have the power to directly enforce the provisions that are self-executing.^6.

Congress would have the power to directly legislate on all subjects necessary to comply with the treaty. This would constitute the most massive shift of power from the states to the federal government in American history.^7.

A committee of 18 experts from other nations, sitting in Geneva, has the authority to issue official interpretations of the treaty which are entitled to binding weight in American courts and legislatures. This effectively transfers ultimate authority for all policies in this area to this foreign committee.^8.

Under international law, the treaty overrides even our Constitution.^9.

Reservations, declarations, or understandings intended to modify our duty to comply with this treaty will be void if they are determined to be inconsistent with the object and purpose of the treaty.^10.

Ten things you need to know about the substance of the CRC:

Parents would no longer be able to administer reasonable spankings to their children.^11.

A murderer aged 17 years and 11 months and 29 days at the time of his crime could no longer be sentenced to life in prison.^12.

Children would have the ability to choose their own religion while parents would only have the authority to give their children advice about religion.^13.

The best interest of the child principle would give the government the ability to override every decision made by every parent if a government worker disagreed with the parent’s decision.^14.

A child’s “right to be heard” would allow him (or her) to seek governmental review of every parental decision with which the child disagreed.^15.

According to existing interpretation, it would be illegal for a nation to spend more on national defense than it does on children’s welfare.^16.

Children would acquire a legally enforceable right to leisure.^17.

Christian schools that refuse to teach "alternative worldviews" and teach that Christianity is the only true religion "fly in the face of article 29" of the treaty.^18.

Allowing parents to opt their children out of sex education has been held to be out of compliance with the CRC.^19.

Children would have the right to reproductive health information and services, including abortions, without parental knowledge or consent.^20.

NOTES:

-Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Article 26 “Pacta sunt servanda”:
“Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith.”

United States Constitution, Article VI: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

UNICEF “Convention on the Rights of the Child” says: “the Convention is a universally agreed set of non-negotiable standards and obligations.” Available at http://www.unicef.org/crc/ on 12/2/2008.

-Vienna Convention Article 26 (supra);

United States Supreme Court, Whitney v. Robertson, 124 U.S. 190 (1888): “By the Constitution of the United States, a treaty and a statute are placed on the same footing, and if the two are inconsistent, the one last in date will control, provided the stipulation of the treaty on the subject is self-executing.”

-Vienna Convention (supra) and Article 2 (g): “‘party’ means a State which has consented to be bound by the treaty and for which the treaty is in force”

-United States Constitution, Article VI (supra, Note 1)

-Arlene Bowers Andrews, Implementing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, 171 (Greenwood Publishing Group 1999): “The Convention is generally regarded as having two classes of rights for the purposes of self-execution, one class that is self-executing and one that is not self-executing."

-United States Supreme Court, Medellin v. Texas, 552 U.S. ___ (2008), at 170 L.Ed. 2d 190, 219, “And whether the treaties underlying a judgment are self-executing so that the judgment is directly enforceable as domestic law in our courts is, of course, a matter for this Court to decide.”

-Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Humanitarian Action and Human Rights, Frequently Asked Questions on International Humanitarian, Human Rights, and Refugee Law, (2002), available at http://www.icva.ch/doc00001023.html#24:
“Human rights law also contains provisions obliging states to implement its rules, whether immediately or progressively. States must adopt a variety of legislative, administrative, judicial and other measures that may be necessary to give effect to the rights provided for in the various treaties. This includes providing for a remedy before domestic courts for violations of specific rights and ensuring that the remedy is effective. The fact that a state has a federal or devolved system of government does not affect a state's obligation to implement human rights law.”

United States Supreme Court, Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957): “To the extent that the United States can validly make treaties, the people and the States have delegated their power to the National Government and the Tenth Amendment is no barrier.”

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 43 (amended) and 44. Available at http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm.

-Vienna Convention, Article 27: “ A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.”

-Vienna Convention, Article 19, available at available at http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.law.of.treaties.convention.1969/19.html; also

Louis Henkin, U.S. Ratification of Human Rights Conventions: The Ghost of Senator Bricker, The American Journal of International Law, Vol 89 No 2, 343-344 (Apr. 1995):
“Reservations designed to reject any obligation to rise above existing law and practice are of dubious propriety: if states generally entered such reservations, the convention would be futile. The object and purpose of the human rights conventions, it would seem, are to promote respect for human rights by having countries—mutually—assume legal obligations to respect and ensure recognized rights in accordance with international standards. Even friends of the United States have objected that its reservations are incompatible with that object and purpose and are therefore invalid.
…By adhering to human rights conventions subject to these reservations, the United States, it is charged, is pretending to assume international obligations but in fact is undertaking nothing.”

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 37(a):
“No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age”

United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 8 (2006): The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (arts. 19; 28, para. 2; and 37, inter alia), CRC/C/GC/8, (2006):
“The Committee is issuing this general comment to highlight the obligation of all State parties to move quickly to prohibit and eliminate all corporal punishment…. Addressing the widespread acceptance or tolerance of corporal punishment of children and eliminating it, in the family, schools and other settings, is … an obligation of State parties under the Convention.”

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 37(a), (supra)

-The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Guide for Children and Young People (April 2008), available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/01081649/1: “You have the right to choose your own religion and beliefs. Your parents should help you think about this.”

Geraldine Van Bueren, International Rights of the Child, Section B, University of London, 29-30 (2006):
“Unlike earlier treaties, the Convention on the Rights of the Child does not include a provision providing for parents to have their children educated in conformity with their parents’ beliefs. In addition, the child’s right to freedom of expression and the right of the parents to initially give direction and later only guidance, strengthens the argument that children are entitled to participate in decisions so that their education conforms to their own convictions.... The second question is whether a child has the right to choose a religion.
Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, parents do have the right to provide direction to the child. Such parental power, however, is subject to two restraints:
• First, such direction should take into account the evolving capacities of the child, as expressly required by the Convention.
• Second, the direction should not be so unyielding that it equals coercion.
It can also be argued that the right to freedom of religion in the Convention on the Rights of the Child ought to be read together with article 12 which gives the child the right to express his own views in the matter of choice of religion."

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 3(1): “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.”

Geraldine Van Bueren, International Rights of the Child, Section D, University of London, 46 (2006):
“Best interests provides decision and policy makers with the authority to substitute their own decisions for either the child's or the parents', providing it is based on considerations of the best interests of the child. Thus, the Convention challenges the concept that family life is always in the best interests of children and that parents are always capable of deciding what is best for children.”

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12(1): “State parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.”

Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group: “Human rights law also contains provisions obliging states to implement its rules, whether immediately or progressively. States must adopt a variety of legislative, administrative, judicial and other measures that may be necessary to give effect to the rights provided for in the various treaties. This includes providing for a remedy before domestic courts for violations of specific rights and ensuring that the remedy is effective.”

Geraldine Van Bueren, International Rights of the Child, Section D, 137: “State parties are obliged to ‘assure’ to children who are capable of forming views the rights to express those views ‘in all matter affecting the child’ and to give those views’ due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child’. By incorporating a reference to ‘all matters affecting the child’ there is no longer a traditional area of exclusive parental or family decision making.”

-United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 31(1): “States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.”

-American Bar Association, Center on Children and the Law: Children's Rights in America: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Compared with United States Law, p. 182.

-Paragraph 52, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Ireland, Committee on the Rights of the Child, 43rd sess., U.N. Doc. CRC/C/IRL/CO/2 (2006):
“While noting that social, personal and health education is incorporated into the curricula of secondary schools, the Committee is concerned that adolescents have insufficient access to necessary information on reproductive health. The education is optional and parents can exempt their children.”

Paragraph 14, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Committee on the Rights of the Child, 8th sess., U.N. Doc. CRC/C/15/Add.34 (1995).

-Katie Hatziavramidis, Parental Involvement Laws for Abortion in the United States and the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child: Can International Law Secure the Right to Choose for Minors?, 16 Tex. J. Women & L. 185, 202-203 (Spring 2007):
“The unmistakable trend in the United States is to consistently increase anti-choice legislation, particularly with respect to minors. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United States holds a strong possibility of assisting minors who seek abortions without parental interference. [*203] The Convention may offer the best hope for securing adolescent reproductive freedoms on a global level. If enough diplomatic pressure were exerted on the United States to compel it to ratify the treaty, the CRC could provide significant improvements in the outlook for reproductive freedom for minors.”

Paragraph 3, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Columbia, Committee on the Rights of the Child, 42nd sess., U.N. Doc. CRC/C/COL/CO/3 (2006): “The Committee notes with appreciation…decisions of the Constitutional Court on…the partial decriminalization of abortion.”

Paragraph 55, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Chile, Committee on the Rights of the Child, 44th sess., U.N. Doc. CRC/C/CHL/CO/3 (2007): “The Committee…is concerned over the high rate of teenage pregnancies, the criminalization of the termination of pregnancies in all circumstances….”

Our parental rights are being taken away ! Part 1

2009-06-29T13:05:00.010-04:00

The post below was an e-mail I received from the Organization Parental Rights. I encourage you to read the letter below I posted and to act on it as soon as possible. WE need to call and voice our opposition to the UN Laws being forced on us. These laws may seem harmless, but they threaten the family unit and are stripping us of our God given rights to love, protect, provide, teach, train, raise our children. This concerns all American families, homeschooling or not homeschooling.

I strongly encourage you to visit parentalrights.org it is a community that is standing guard and informing us as to how our God given rights need to be protected.

Watch this short video clip of Interview with Micheal Farris (Founder of HSLDA and Parental Rights and Constitutional Lawyer

..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3MUFatgW8

Our parental rights are being taken away ! Part 2

2009-06-29T13:01:00.003-04:00

Dear Friend of Parental Rights,

Monday in a Harlem middle school, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told a group of 120 students that administration officials are actively discussing “when and how it might be possible to join” (that is, ratify) the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As before, she also communicated what a disgrace it is that the U.S. would stand with only Somalia against such a widely-accepted treaty.

This is the first direct public statement by the Obama administration that it will seek ratification of the UN CRC.

In my 30 years of political involvement, I have learned to recognize this as what is called a “trial balloon.” Like in World War I trench warfare, our opponents have “sent up a balloon” to see if it will draw fire. If things remain quiet, they will proceed with their plans to push for ratification of the CRC in the U.S. Senate.

To discourage them from doing so, we need to make sure that our voices are heard with unmistakable clarity. We must let the Obama administration know that we oppose this anti-family, anti-American treaty.

Here’s what we need you all to do:

1. Call the White House comments line at 202-456-1111. Tell them you heard the administration wants to ratify the CRC, and you strongly oppose this giving away of U.S. sovereignty to the UN. Also keep in mind that this treaty gives the government jurisdiction to override any decision made by any parent if the government thinks that a better decision can be made—even if there is no proof of any harm.

2. Call Ambassador Susan Rice’s office at the United Nations. Tell her that you want her to represent the United States to the world rather than trying to get the United States to go along with international law initiated by the UN. Her office number is 212-415-4000.

3. Contact your Senators and urge them to oppose ratification of this treaty. (Find your Senators’ contact information by typing your zip code into the box here.) Ask them also to defeat it once and for all by cosponsoring SJRes 16 – the Parental Rights Amendment.

It is very important that we speak up right now. Please call before you close this email!

Sincerely,

Michael Farris

MATH

2009-06-28T13:16:00.004-04:00

When our family began homeschooling we were still getting a feel for what books and curriculum worked for us and what did not work for us. Our oldest daughter was struggled a bit with math. Math is not one of her strongest subjects. She is stronger in the subject of reading books and language arts. She was 5yrs. old when we started out using the curriculum MATH U SEE, it is simple and very user friendly for both teacher (parent) and child, but then I became enticed by a more flashier and expensive math curriculum. We made the purchase and started the lesson plans, but soon found it was not a good match for our family. Very quickly we switched back to Math U SEE . We have found, all though not perfect, it is very close to perfect. We have been using this math curriculum for 4 years and now we use it with our youngest daughter.

Math U SEE Benefits:

Very user friendly for Teacher (parent) and child.

Inexpensive compared to other programs.

Works great for teaching comprehension math skills to right-brain or left-brain dominant people.

Has simple, easy to use, colorful manipulative blocks that may or may not be used by your child starting from primer to advanced high school levels. The option is up to you and/or your child.

Each student has, his or her, own consumable work book. Which can be a pro or con depends on how you see it.

The teacher has a his or her own teachers Manuel.

This is really great! Each level comes with a fun, step by step for each lesson, instinctual DVD. The girls and I truly like watching these DVDs. Very helpful.

Math is no longer a chore to be hated. There is no more crying from me or our daughter. Math NO longer takes hours to accomplish, and it is NO longer a scary school subject for any of us in our family.

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Hope this helps anyone who is struggling with math.

How to start homeschooling

2009-06-25T19:35:00.002-04:00

Education is probably one of the best gifts and privileges that you can give to your children. While there are many good schools out there that you can enroll your child in, there is also an option to home school him or her. Despite the fact that not many parents make that choice, homeschooling can prove to be as effective as a traditional school as a learning tool - if, of course, done the right way. Parents need to be aware that this is a full-on role of becoming both parent and teacher to their children. If this is all okay with you, you then need to learn how to start homeschooling your child.

However, homeschooling does not mean that you drastically take your child out of the room and bury him or her into work. In fact, experts recommend that you don't do anything straight away - instead, you should provide your child an area to relax. If any, reading books together should be your focus. This allows the child to make a smoother transition from an actual school to studying at home.

You yourself should also be familiar with guidelines and tricks on how to start homeschooling. Read up on reference materials, and get together with other parents who have experienced doing a similar thing. Get feedback and input from them and incorporate the suggestions you find will be more effective for your kid. Be aware of the homeschooling laws in your state. While it is legal in most, if not all, states, there might be some local organizations or schools that may not necessarily be on the same side.

Next, you'll need to customize your home-based curriculum in terms of your child's interests. Learn to explore different fields of study that many not necessarily be included in most schools' curricula. Your child may have an area of interest that you could possibly add into your study schedule so that he is motivated and will look forward to what each session has in store.

Learn to be creative! This is the key skill that any parent or teacher must possess. Children have relatively lower attention spans than adults, and so keeping their attention rapt and focused on the lesson is of the essence. Get input from local teachers and learn from their techniques, as they experience this year after year with their classes.

All in all, learning how to start homeschooling is a great bonding process for both you and your child. As you take on a double role of parent and teacher, your child will appreciate you more, and in turn, you'll be able to spend as much time with your child and be in tune with their academic progress as much as possible.

A lot more tips on homeschooling can be found at http://www.homeschooling4you.com/

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2009-06-25T19:30:00.003-04:00

We came across this article on printable crossword puzzles for your children, it is FREE and it sounds like it might be fun...

Printable Crossword Puzzles

2009-06-25T19:02:00.002-04:00

Crosswords are one of the great things to develop the skills of your kid. There is no need that you have to get a book for crosswords. Due to advancements in modern day technology, these sort of crosswords can be obtained from the Internet itself. They are called as the printable crossword puzzles for kids. There is a real need to develop the brain of kids. It is the right time to do so, that is when your child is a kid, to start initiating his brain to think. The crosswords and other activities will help your kid to think more and hence, his brain starts to develop. As a result of this, your kid becomes sharper and mentally very fit and competitive. Today's world is far too much competitive and hence only person with knowledge and intelligence can survive easily. Hence the need for developing a kid's brain is very significant and very much a need. There are many ways to do so and one of them is by crossword puzzles.

Crossword provide your kid with a chance to develop aptitude skills and also helps to develop other skills related to brain. There are many types of crossword puzzles involving language skills, mathematical skills and so on. Traditionally it has been the books that had these crossword puzzles. But nowadays there is internet that helps you to get them easily. There are a lot of websites that has thousands o these printable crossword puzzles or kids. They can be seen, printed and given to your kid. These sort of crossword puzzles are available free o cost in many sites. So, a person can browse through them and select a puzzle for their kid with apt difficulty level. Also they give you the option to print the puzzle. You may hand out the printed puzzle to your kid to solve. The sites also provide answer key and solutions to the crossword puzzles. But there are some sites that charge a bit for these service. Though they charge, there is quality in these sites. Many of them are devised by trained professionals, who are experts in the field. They give you the apt kind of difficulty level. They also provide with valuable feed backs and hence you can train your kid in the area, where he or she is lagging. Also these sites increase the difficulty levels on passage of time. They also have the crossword puzzle for different age limits.

A person is left to choose from thousands of puzzles. So a parent must choose an apt puzzle with apt difficulty level for his kid. After choosing, the crossword puzzle can be printed and can be given to your kid. This is the basic concept behind printable crossword puzzle for kids. The printable crossword puzzle helps your kid to become sharper and more competitive. These prove to be the first steps to what is going to be a tough life for them. These help them and ensure their competitive edge and hence make them better individuals.

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" Daddy, this is the best Fathers Day ever ! ! ! "

2009-06-23T14:52:00.010-04:00

JOY...it is pure joy, plain and simple, when we let go of what our ideas are for education and how we need to teach something quite beautiful starts to take place. The Holy Spirit reaches in and touches the hearts and minds of our children. He opens them up to see His creation and puts a curiosity inside of our little ones. There are days when the Lord says, " sit back and watch how I teach. " Fathers Day, June 21, 2009, was one of those JOYful days.

Our youngest daughter just loves to get her hands into the dirt. Any part of Gods creation is just fine with her to investigate, for example, trees, plants, rocks, critters, you get the idea. This year we went to Grandpa's and Grandma's house out in the country for Fathers Day. They have a pond in the back yard filled with all kinds of fun stuff to explore and ask questions about, and we all had so much fun. Our youngest went fishing with her uncle, and guess what she caught? A big, old, green, slimy bull frog. Well she just wrapped her hands around that frog, and she just thought he was the most wonderful frog she had ever seen (we have pictures posted to show you.) and she wanted to keep the frog but we would not let her. She released him back into Grandpas pond. A few minutes later she caught another frog and this time ran up to her Daddy asking all kinds of questions about her new slimy friend. She looked up at her father with her big bright eyes all full of excitement and said, "Daddy, this is the best Fathers Day ever ! ! ! "

Then all of us shared the experience of seeing and feeling tiny, little baby toads jumping all over the grass and on our feet. They were only a quarter inch big and so fragile. We all enjoyed picking up the tiny little toads. The best part is that our children ( as well as us, adults ) were enjoying the Lords' creation in a natural setting. This was a great science class! You can not beat a living education, and when it is combined with lesson books/plans then you are on the way to having well rounded mind and heart.

Remember, the Lord said, come let us reason together.....

Introductions

2009-06-20T12:50:00.006-04:00

Hello everyone,
First things first, our family would like to dedicate this blog to our Lord and Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ. All that is good and all of the blessings that have been in our lives has come from Him. Without Him nothing is possible, but with Him in us all things are possible because He is our strength.

Looking back over the years I can see all of the God inspired events in our family's lives. It fills me with awe to think of how His Holy Spirit personally guides us, for our family it started with the seeds of interest in having a personal, living, daily relationship with Him. Through this the Holy Spirit placed strong convictions in myself and Mark's heart about creation, God's plan & purpose for our family, and how did the Lord want us to educate our children. We were lead to home educate as a family. This has been a wonderful yet challenging journey. God the Father has used this calling to bring us closer to Him and to learn more about ourselves and each other.
We hope to share our ideas and experiences with you. We hope that this will encourage you and spur you on towards the Lords' work at hand,(His Kingdom work preparing the bride). God bless and His peace be with you...

" I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye. " PSALM 32:8

Friends and family are gifts from God.

2009-06-15T23:16:00.001-04:00

Thank You Lord, for everything in our lives. You have blessed us with your saving grace and mercy. You have blessed us with your only Son. You have blessed us with your Holy Spirit. You have blessed us with loving family,friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, and great neighbors.

You have blessed our family with your grace to home school, and thank you for your blessings. May this blog be used to bring glory and praise to you and to bare evidence to your literal 6 days of creation and the 7th day of rest.