I have four grown children and five grandchildren. My kids are Conservatives and my grandchildren go to Catholic schools where they sing patriotic songs and cover their hearts with their hands every morning when they say the Pledge. I stress to them that which matters:
1.Core values and principles.
2.Having a moral code by which to live your life, reading and learning about the Constitution and the founding fathers.
3.Appreciating American’s exceptionalism and greatness.
We cannot leave this kind of teaching to others. We have to do it ourselves in our families and begin at an early age.
Out public elementary and high schools, Universities..are mostly infested with Lib educators who will try to destroy our young people’s minds with leftist garbage.
We cannot keep our children and grandchildren insulated from these forces but we can counter the insurgents...and keep our children close. We are role models for them in how we live our lives.
Your niece(who I agree is a goner) is typical of alot of up and coming “free thinkers’ that I know, mostly children of my friends who have been left to “make their own decisions” about the country and politics.
“I want them to hear both sides”..Hurl alert!
I have(had?)a friend whose son travels around the world apologizing for American’s “rich” people and trying to raise monies for an organization called Globe Med. He wants to start wearing robes!
I suggested that he stop dissing the country which gave him everything, go get a real job, and never again dare to ask me for money for his stupid, anti American causes. Then I told him that in fact, HE was a fraud.
His mother hasn’t called me in months. Oh well...