Posted on 11/05/2013 6:08:47 AM PST by Kaslin
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Reason? sending them to gov run propaganist schools of progressive liberal communist facist thought. Cutting our own wrists. Would a rat send his or her robot to a conservitive institution of thought?
The desire to fornicate like a man - without consequences.
Genesis 3:16 - God curses the woman with a desire to be like the man.
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I have friends who homeschooled their kids. A pastors daughter rejected Christianity, went to Berkelley, and is very liberal.
I have another friend whose son was homeschooled until high school who came out as gay.
Both of those families are very devout Christians, but we do live in California.
My kids went to a mixture of public and private Christian., and we are not very devout. My husband has only recently started going to church regularly. Our son chose to go to a conservative college, Texas A&M, and he is very active in Campus Crusade for Christ. Our daughters are very conservative, but they are not in college yet.
I don’t know what pushes kids away from their parents beliefs.
To the point of murder.
Horse pucky. They don't understand the mechanics of their values well enough to explain how liberty works in contrast to collectivism. Most conservatives were products of public schools and even then an ignorant hand-waving mystical priesthood.
Oh, involved parents can and do raise devout conservative kids in public and private schools. It’s just the odds are a lot better for homeschoolers. There was a study a few years ago about churched kids who stay with or leave the faith - and it was something like 80% of public/private schooled kids fall away in young adulthood, while over 80% the homeschooled kids stuck with the faith.
Ted Cruz graduated from Princeton.
And Harvard.
(just sayin’...your general rule is of course true! But Cruz is sort of the exception in many respects....)
God bless you, and each of your children. "Hear me now, believe me later" has become my byword in some of the discussions with mine.
All of the great presidents came from no-name colleges (Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe) or didn't even attend college at all (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland).
Values must be inculcated early in a child’s life — before the school systems get a hold of them.
My children and I talked about life and politics every night at the dinner table, along with their parents taking an active interest in every aspect of their education.
I’ve now got a tremendous young man who is at least as conservative as I am and a God-loving, God-fearing daughter who will exceed me in life in every important respect. You have to put in the time as a parent. There is no substitute for it.
I think Reagan’s problem with his kids were that they all rebelled against their mothers.
Try not to be close-minded. A lot of us are "underground" in academia and business. I have an Ivy graduate degree, always was and still remain about 95% conservative. My undergrad college almost threw me out for being conservative; by the time I got to grad school, I knew how to work the system. The facilities and resources there were excellent for my purposes at the time.
Don't beat yourself up. I think a little rebellion is a natural part of growing up and becoming an adult.
I rebelled for a time in my early 20’s. And I was raised by VERY Conservative parents and went to a Catholic school. In my case I think my peer group was still romanticizing the Hippies who had come just a few years before us.
It didn’t take long being out on the job market, married and having kids to get my mind right again.
Of course kids today don’t want to get married and can’t find a job. So they may linger in this twilight adolescence for a very long time.
Michael was grateful. Liberals are ingrates. Happens to many parents who have wealth or prominence.
That was great hearing your story. I wish everyone was as dedicated to raising children like you have been. It can be done, and you have proved it.
Dwight Eisenhower was one of our greats, but he was trashed continually by the left. He went to West Point.
Churchill.
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