I am an unlikely reader of your post. We say the same things but in a different language. I am old; you are still young. I was educated through much reading: Russian novels, English novels, and the Old and New Testaments.; very little formal education. I am a Catholic mother and grandmother. You would almost certainly find me dull as far as speech is concerned. And yet I agree with your ideas; I admire your fierce energy displayed in support of parents and children who are afflicted by so-called woke ideas. The most frightening thing about those ideas , at least to me, is that their supporters believe them. They understand themselves as being on the side of Truth. Please keep fighting.
We have ceded too much ground and now it is an all hands on deck situation.
The seeds of the problem and the solution are in the video of Gabrielle that you posted. God Bless her because she realized it, realized what needed to be done which was essentially love and nurture her children not only back to health but back to sanity. At the point in which she did so things were so far gone that she had to enlist all her extended family to help. Again, God Bless them too.
But here is the point of it all...we have allowed the schools and media (in whatever many forms) to educate our children. Oh, it's 7th grade, I signed the permission slip for sex education, check box, glad that's done. Oh my kid is on the phone all the time, oh darn, they really should stop but oh well- no- - No! We need to face the truth- we need to oppose culture at almost every turn or at the very least discuss and examine it with our children. This is a common theme through all time(!) because all past societies have had both civilized and barbaric people- CS Lewis writes about how his school sealed the deal on his bout of atheism. He then fictionalizes the theme in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" with a very direct line about how Edmond was ruined in his bad school. In "The Imitation of Christ" written in the 1400's it kicks off with how weary we are from all we read and see...Dennis Prager talks about the moment he was at Columbia University as a student and realized there was no wisdom at Columbia because there was no God at Columbia and on and on. I am sure everyone on this Substack could come up with multiple historical and current examples- this is all nothing new.
Wake up parents-yes, do what this strong woman woke up to do- raise your child-the culture is always rotten and always has been. Stop thinking the world in the form of others, teacher, therapists, filmmakers, with a good sprinkling of tik tok will raise your child the way you think is right and good.
When you watch a movie with your child, analyze it, say it's trash if there is violence or constant sex out of wedlock etc, if you see a billboard that is ridiculous, trash it verbally, disgusting lyrics in songs, trash them, eloquently, intelligently, and even with humor trash it all!...sow those seeds of doubt! Get your kids to THINK logically.
One small personal example I can offer - there was a point when my daughter was about 13 and we were watching friends together over the course of a few months and one day I looked at her and said - "this show is actually all about sex". "It's kind of ridiculous"!... and it was like something melted away- she was so relieved and like "I know!" "They are such losers"! We still watched a bit and laughed here and there but from that point on we had our own running jokes about all the sex stuff when we watched together.
I was thinking lately that because the media is captured, it has to toe certain narrative lines and slander dissenting opinions as "hate speech" or "misinformation." Unfortunately the public has bought into this, but we the people are not receiving money from the pharmaceutical industry or the military industrial complex or NGOs or whatever-- we DO NOT have to toe the narrative line. I wish people would wake up to this.
There are good parents who find themselves in this mess in spite of anything they can do. Then there are the weak, permissive ones who are afraid to cross their kids. Finally, there are the woke ones who are excited about the leftist cred they'll gain among their woke peers by having a trans kid. Facilitators who go along enthusiastically with the whole delusion. I know parents like that.
Scripture says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6). With the dangers in schools today, it is wise to homeschool if possible. If that is absolutely impossible, at minimum parents should, in a friendly and relaxed way, debrief kids on what they learn in school. Be sure to tell kids clearly and repeatedly that, if somebody at school ever tells them not to tell their parents something, they should be sure to tell their parents that very day.
Being woke is the beginning of finding out what was hidden! When we as parents find out what’s really going on with our children, it is then when we wake up to evil that has taken control of the family. So don’t get it twisted because being woke will wake up the rest of America!!
I am an unlikely reader of your post. We say the same things but in a different language. I am old; you are still young. I was educated through much reading: Russian novels, English novels, and the Old and New Testaments.; very little formal education. I am a Catholic mother and grandmother. You would almost certainly find me dull as far as speech is concerned. And yet I agree with your ideas; I admire your fierce energy displayed in support of parents and children who are afflicted by so-called woke ideas. The most frightening thing about those ideas , at least to me, is that their supporters believe them. They understand themselves as being on the side of Truth. Please keep fighting.
We have ceded too much ground and now it is an all hands on deck situation.
The seeds of the problem and the solution are in the video of Gabrielle that you posted. God Bless her because she realized it, realized what needed to be done which was essentially love and nurture her children not only back to health but back to sanity. At the point in which she did so things were so far gone that she had to enlist all her extended family to help. Again, God Bless them too.
But here is the point of it all...we have allowed the schools and media (in whatever many forms) to educate our children. Oh, it's 7th grade, I signed the permission slip for sex education, check box, glad that's done. Oh my kid is on the phone all the time, oh darn, they really should stop but oh well- no- - No! We need to face the truth- we need to oppose culture at almost every turn or at the very least discuss and examine it with our children. This is a common theme through all time(!) because all past societies have had both civilized and barbaric people- CS Lewis writes about how his school sealed the deal on his bout of atheism. He then fictionalizes the theme in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" with a very direct line about how Edmond was ruined in his bad school. In "The Imitation of Christ" written in the 1400's it kicks off with how weary we are from all we read and see...Dennis Prager talks about the moment he was at Columbia University as a student and realized there was no wisdom at Columbia because there was no God at Columbia and on and on. I am sure everyone on this Substack could come up with multiple historical and current examples- this is all nothing new.
Wake up parents-yes, do what this strong woman woke up to do- raise your child-the culture is always rotten and always has been. Stop thinking the world in the form of others, teacher, therapists, filmmakers, with a good sprinkling of tik tok will raise your child the way you think is right and good.
When you watch a movie with your child, analyze it, say it's trash if there is violence or constant sex out of wedlock etc, if you see a billboard that is ridiculous, trash it verbally, disgusting lyrics in songs, trash them, eloquently, intelligently, and even with humor trash it all!...sow those seeds of doubt! Get your kids to THINK logically.
One small personal example I can offer - there was a point when my daughter was about 13 and we were watching friends together over the course of a few months and one day I looked at her and said - "this show is actually all about sex". "It's kind of ridiculous"!... and it was like something melted away- she was so relieved and like "I know!" "They are such losers"! We still watched a bit and laughed here and there but from that point on we had our own running jokes about all the sex stuff when we watched together.
Why do we allow China to serve a different, and more toxic, version of TikTok than they make available to their citizens?
https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-tiktok-but-protecting-its-own/
I was thinking lately that because the media is captured, it has to toe certain narrative lines and slander dissenting opinions as "hate speech" or "misinformation." Unfortunately the public has bought into this, but we the people are not receiving money from the pharmaceutical industry or the military industrial complex or NGOs or whatever-- we DO NOT have to toe the narrative line. I wish people would wake up to this.
There are good parents who find themselves in this mess in spite of anything they can do. Then there are the weak, permissive ones who are afraid to cross their kids. Finally, there are the woke ones who are excited about the leftist cred they'll gain among their woke peers by having a trans kid. Facilitators who go along enthusiastically with the whole delusion. I know parents like that.
Scripture says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6). With the dangers in schools today, it is wise to homeschool if possible. If that is absolutely impossible, at minimum parents should, in a friendly and relaxed way, debrief kids on what they learn in school. Be sure to tell kids clearly and repeatedly that, if somebody at school ever tells them not to tell their parents something, they should be sure to tell their parents that very day.
Good to know. It looks like we'll have to take this up where I live as well.
Being woke is the beginning of finding out what was hidden! When we as parents find out what’s really going on with our children, it is then when we wake up to evil that has taken control of the family. So don’t get it twisted because being woke will wake up the rest of America!!