And your kids still don’t get it? i am amazed by that. I just personally can’t imagine a 17 yo NOT getting it, if they have been raised in our political philosophy their entire lives. my kids, my kids friends, and our friends kids are all on the right page. so i have no experience with well-informed kids not getting it, which is why i assumed no talking to them had been done.
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)