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If You Want a Conservative Child: Five ways to ensure your child won’t cross over to the left.
National Review ^ | 11/12/2013 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 11/12/2013 5:48:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/12/2013 5:48:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, but the number one thing you can do is simply this, keep your kid out of public schools.. send them to a private or parochial school during their formative years, so that by the time they get to college they already are well aware of what the liberal dogma is and how to logically counter it.

PERIOD.


2 posted on 11/12/2013 5:50:47 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Obviously one that isn’t a liberal propoganda factory...


3 posted on 11/12/2013 5:51:13 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
Beat me to it home school, a private school that meets your ideals.

Do not fall for the liberal idea that you can not tell your child what to then as they get older advise them what path to take.

Liberals want your child to run wild so they can fill their heads with liberal mush.

4 posted on 11/12/2013 5:54:43 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad the Occupy camps are gone. A five-minute tour with clear sinuses would likely have done the trick.


5 posted on 11/12/2013 5:56:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HamiltonJay
I would say it starts much earlier than in College...watch out in any public school....they will start to indoctrinate your child fast and early...I will say its tough today to raise a good kid..to many bad options out there for them to fall off the path....video games..music..drugs..teachers preaching values..many many things to destroy your child..
6 posted on 11/12/2013 5:56:50 AM PST by Youngman542012
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To: riverrunner

Take your children to church, and I don’t mean a Unitarian one. Teach them how to shoot, safely that is.


7 posted on 11/12/2013 5:57:13 AM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: SeekAndFind

I grew up in a rural farm community. Despite my youthful “escapades” I never really had any liberalism in me. I just wasn’t exposed to it.

At worst I just didn’t think about things like abortion but when I finally did, it never even occurred to me that it might be OK.


8 posted on 11/12/2013 5:58:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Don’t forget about doing “online University” instead of going to University. This works great for many disciplines although it might not be the best for some. Accounting is one that works well online in my experience. Computer Science and Math are likely good too.


9 posted on 11/12/2013 5:59:12 AM PST by impimp
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To: HamiltonJay

What a child needs is DISCIPLING.

And the parent decides who is going to do that - themselves, a private school teacher, a public school teacher, etc.

The best way to make sure that your child is getting discipled with your family’s values is for him to be educated by your family.


10 posted on 11/12/2013 5:59:46 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: RKV
One of the many good things you can do for your children. Get rid of the TV spend time with your children.

I hear to many so called conservative parents tell me you can't give your children advice or tell them what they do.

Why not as long as the advice is good and solid you should be giving them advice.

If they don't take that is their problem.

it is a liberal ideal not to give your children good advice so they can fill their heads with liberal mush.

11 posted on 11/12/2013 6:02:31 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: SeekAndFind

And don’t let a child become a vegan or vegetarian at a young age! It’s bad for a kiddie’s development and it’s underlying principles are pernicious and wrong-headed.


12 posted on 11/12/2013 6:03:04 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I raised five-—2 right,2 left,and one fence sitter.

They were all raised together so what can you do?

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13 posted on 11/12/2013 6:03:47 AM PST by Mears (Liberalism is the art of being easily offended.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This was rebutted by James Kirkpatrick. Basically Mr. Prager should come to realize that ideology is political theology based on crank ideas of humanity most notably the fraud of the blank slate theory.


14 posted on 11/12/2013 6:04:16 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I raised 4 kids without ever talking politics.

All four are conservative, responsible, hardworking souls. They understand that actions have consequences. They are accomplished professionals with families of their own. They all volunteer in the community, one donates his skills in 3rd world countries.

For me, raising them was the best part of my life. No parent could be more proud than I am of them.


15 posted on 11/12/2013 6:05:07 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: RKV

And if you live in rural or suburban neighborhoods it’s good to join the Four H clubs. Teach your kids how to bake and sew. Give them piano lessons and/or ballet lessons. There are lots of ways to keep children occupied than video games.


16 posted on 11/12/2013 6:06:57 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Need to add: Restrict and/or monitor TV, movies, music, etc., MSM BS, that will influence liberal thinking. The child does need some exposure to this mush, however, accompanied by an conservative adult’s explanation as to what is really going on, in order to prevent naivety and prepare the child for adulthood.
Example: my liberal-minded daughter now has a liberal-minded teen-age daughter who claims she is bisexual.


17 posted on 11/12/2013 6:07:39 AM PST by fivecatsandadog
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To: HamiltonJay
Re: Private Schools
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Choose with care! There are many flamingly Marxist K-12 private schools.

The very best option is to homeschool if at all possible.

Please remember that nearly every K-12 teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist run colleges and universities. Even if the private school is basically conservative the Marxist training will very likely leak through into school policies and into the classroom.

18 posted on 11/12/2013 6:11:41 AM PST by wintertime
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To: cripplecreek

I grew up in the city in a heavy Polish-Irish Catholic neighborhood. I had to break away from the pro-union establishment and was essentially black-balled. I had the same views on abortion as you. I still don’t see how it is seen as OK by liberals and on the left it is now a sacrament.


19 posted on 11/12/2013 6:11:54 AM PST by outpostinmass2
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To: SeekAndFind
If your child recycles, or walks five or ten kilometers on behalf of breast cancer, that is lovely.

I don't think breast cancer needs any advocates or supporters. I think it would be better to walk five or ten kilometres to defeat breast cancer.
20 posted on 11/12/2013 6:12:02 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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