Many have fought long lonely battles to save family members from themselves. Usually, while being denigrated by many that assume that “parents are always at fault”. In my experience parents are not at fault about half the time. The kids have their own minds and make their own judgments after they are taught what they should do. In fact regardless of up bring young adults are responsible for the decisions they make and no one else. If a person wants welfare because they are a victim of the system we on FR correctly identify that they are responsible for their lives. We tell them to get to work, educate themselves, make something of themselves, and help us build a positive future for our nation. How strange it is to see that so many think that kids that have drug or alcohol problems, hate their country, or work to destroy that very country are “victims” of their parents. Nonsense.
You are right to be alarmed. Our children are assaulted from so many directions that they are hard to catalog. The music they listen to inculcate immorality, drugs, and criminal activity. And let's not forget that they are taught to hate their country and embrace marxism and disregard what their parents teach them in the schools we send them to for an education. If you discuss politics, I am certain you have heard “Well communism has never really been tried”. Add to this peer pressure, movies, television, radio, and I submit to you that parents that teach personal responsibility, hard work, and patriotism, will loose more often than not. And my position is supported by empirical evidence. How many of our youth support the marxists?
So how did I do? My son is US Army, headed to Afghanistan. My daughter...still a work in progress but she is working now, making a positive contribution, and realizing just how right her parents were. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to comment in this area. :D)
Good for you! my kids are still at home and dependent on us, as they are all students. i suppose i won’t be able to truly judge our success til they are on their own, but i would be very surprised should they change their stripes. For one thing, my husband and i come at this with the zeal of the converted. i was raised a DEM, by a blue collar union dem parents; my dad voted democrat til the day he died. My husband took off a semester of college to work for MO UDALL for president! we became conservatives AFTER reagan, neither of us voted for him. SO you must realize we know the other side, we present the other side’s point of view and we debunk it. that is the advantage of being converted, you know what the opposition thinks bc you once WERE the opposition. educating our kids has to be a priority and it has to be in depth and in context.
My kids listen to the same music, go to the same movies, but it’s entertainment, it’s not something that they internalize as a way to live their lives. I listened to the hippy music, read about Woodstock and the free sex/drugs/rock and roll generation, but it certainly didn’t influence me to adopt that lifestyle. If the family is morally/ideologically centered, i do not believe that many kids can be brainwashed, or influenced away from that ideology. I talked to my kids about morals EARLY. i would talk about the song that would come on the radio, the tv show that we just watched and what was wrong with the way it portrayed life, sex, etc. my feeling is that if you don’t provide a moral framework, then they will absorb the morality of popular culture, which means NO morality. IF you permit a vacuum to be created, then the popular culture will BECOME their morality. I think far too many parents, including freepers, just go along blithely without doing the indepth and intense education of moral/political philosophy and then are surprised when their kids go AWOL.