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To: Popman
I for one am glad your offspring are perfect makes life so easy I am jealous of you / s

Not at all. I have no illusions about being perfect. My only point is that we can't sit back and blame the upcoming generation for their faults without accepting at least some of the responsibility for them. Maybe we didn't participate in ruining this culture and destroying the roles of men and women in our society, but what did we do to stop it? What did we do to promote the healthy and strong cultural values? We get on FR and bitch about how the government schools are corrupting our youth, but what have we done to correct it? Only the homeschoolers have actually done something. It makes no sense to me to ridicule the young for their faults without realizing that, as the older generation, we have failed.
112 posted on 03/02/2011 12:45:11 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
It's obvious you have not raised your children (if you have any) to adulthood.

My wife and I raised six children from birth to adulthood so I think we have a pretty good idea of the pitfalls and triumphs of raising children.

Yes, we raised them in a Christian home, meaning church every week, youth group, small groups and as well home-schooled them until high-school and pretty much did everything possibly under the sun to keep them on the straight and narrow. Taught them the way to run their lives to glorify the Lord by living out ourselves a healthy and strong cultural values like being married for thirty years, not drinking or smoking. My children have never heard me utter a foul word, never hit my wife, been faithful to the Lord in word and deed.

Are you sitting down because I have some really astounding news for you: Get ready for this for it's a real eyeopener

Every single one of them once having reached adulthood made their own decisions about their life. As their father I could only counsel them and ask them to consider my wise counsel. Believe or not, sometimes they screwed up and made the wrong choices in life.

Of the six, three are still active in church. Once they spring from the home and start making their own decisions in life, the "world" around them has a pull and influence no matter how well they have been brought up.

As for failing them, I take no blame. I gave them all the tools to be successful in life and in cultural, spiritual matters .

What they do with it is up to them

140 posted on 03/02/2011 3:37:29 PM PST by Popman (Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
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