Posted on 07/04/2020 6:56:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
6 Ways To Raise A Patriot Whats the most patriotic thing you can do right now? Raise a patriot!
One silver lining of recent political and cultural upheaval is that parents are finally waking up to the indoctrination of their children. Ive always known my kids schools were liberal, but it wasnt until COVID-19 homeschooling began that I discovered my sons high school curriculum included Chinese communist propaganda videos.
I sat at my kitchen counter with my jaw open as we watched an assigned video justifying and promoting the Chinese Communist Partys inhumane population control policies with zero counterpoint materials or critical thinking required. When my son offered an opposing point of view on Google Classroom for his fellow students to consider, his teacher removed the comment.
When thats happening in small town Wausau, Wisconsin, why should we be surprised by how easily Black Lives Matter (BLM) hijacked the publics righteous anger over George Floyds murder, becoming the most powerful and potent force in American politics overnight? For decades, Marxist organizations, including BLM, have been tilling the soil while parents slept.
Watching statues of George Washington topple and hearing talk of blowing up Mount Rushmore, parents rightfully wonder if its too late to turn the tide on all the victimhood interpretations of American history our children have been silently absorbing like carbon monoxide. Im truly an eternal optimist about renewing and restoring Americas well-deserved national pride, but I implore you not to lose hope either.
You are your childs first and most important teacher. You can have more influence over your child than any celebrity, rock-star-status congresswoman, or social media influencer. If you talk about politics, history, and your love of country, your kids are listening and absorbing, and they trust you more than people theyve never met.
This is especially important if you are a minority. Our culture and an entire racial grievance cottage industry depends on your child thinking they are not self-sufficient or capable of personal responsibility.
Every American family has one! Mine was captured in a video five years ago, but even before that, my kids always heard stories about their grandfather being a shoeshine boy at the age of 9, starting a piñata business by age 12, and going to night school to earn his degree while raising a family. We tell them all the time that this kind of extraordinary upward mobility only happens in America and that we are blessed to be Americans.
One of the most effective tools of the anti-American left is to make us believe that the American Dream, no matter how hard you work, is rigged or dead. Why? Because if it is, then we need them. When your child knows your familys American Dream story, they wont fall for the lies that everyone from AOC to First Lady Michelle Obama tell about America being racist or systemically rigged against minorities. Its not true!
The dirty little secret is that indoctrination doesnt start in college. Even baby board books are full of victimology, anti-American messages, and storylines that denigrate competition and free-market capitalism.
Our cultures obsession with diversity has dangerously diminished the number of books and stories our children hear about all the beautiful things we have in common as Americans our history, our love of freedom, and our pursuit of the American Dream. Its why I wrote my first childrens book, Paloma Wants to Be Lady Freedom.
Books are formative. From board books to young-adult literature, make sure your kids are reading about all the good America has done and continues to do. America is exceptional, and its flaws and historical sins do not diminish that fact.
While we were sleeping, the left took over teaching colleges, filling boards that approve textbooks, and are providing free supplemental curriculum and training to teachers through groups like the 25,000-member-strong American Educational Research Association. AERA hired Bill Ayers, a radical, unrepentant domestic terrorist who publicly stated his goal is to dismantle capitalism, as its vice president of curriculum studies. That means you need to check your childs textbooks and supplemental curriculum.
Much of the ideologically driven interpretations of American history in our schools can be traced to one book: “The Peoples History of the United States,” written by an avowed Marxist named Howard Zinn. Long considered fringe material, it is now mainstream and being introduced to younger and younger audiences.
Some teachers, like this one who posted a TikTok video bragging about it, only teach from Zinns book, which views every event in America history exclusively through the prism of oppression, class, and race struggles. In Zinns world, America is not exceptional, our founders were villains, their motives were never noble, and their contributions to liberty were always overstated.
Actions really do speak louder than words. Fly a flag in front of your house and behind your boat. Teach your kids to respect the proper way to dispose of a tattered American flag. Online videos demonstrate how to make a little ceremony of it at home. Your kids and grandkids will remember these moments forever.
Teach them to thank our military and law enforcement for their service and to stand and take their hat off for our national anthem. Lead by example. Our country, and yes, our kids, are craving a time when these things were part of our cultural fabric, which explains why this video of a World War II veteran quietly saluting the flag on his morning walk went viral.
This Independence Day, find time to tell your kids the story of our inspirational revolution and daring independence from England. Fly your American flag proudly, and let the kids see you cry when you hear the “The Star-Spangled Banner” play during fireworks.
In 1776, our nations future depended on young reinforcements. The same is true today. Whats the most patriotic thing you can do right now? Raise a patriot!
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And to those who send their children to religious schools - debrief your children daily. My son’s southern Baptist highschool was full of lefty indoctrinators, especially in the religion department.
You mentioned Southern Baptist. All I can say is Enough said.
Trump could write this book. MaryAnne and Fred Trump did a wonderful job.
SBC has gone off the rails ... again. They’re a pendulum swinging right, then left, then back again. This must be one of their left times.
We quit SBC about 9 years ago when I was to be in charge of music for that year’s VBS. I was given a fancy packet of materials including a DVR instructing in the steps of the “hip-hop” (their words) dances that would be taught. I returned the packet to Mrs. Preacher and said I wouldn’t be involved in that.
Someone else did it and, sure enough, in Sunday Morning Worship Service during VBS the kids all got on stage and did a rap/hip-hop routine that was absolutely revolting. That ended it for us.
When Dad did VBS, we studied hymn histories, Robert’s Rules Of Order, had Sword Drills, Bible memorization, missionary stories.
Rachel is great. All good tips for parents here.
Several years ago when I was working as a reference librarian in a public library, a Chinese woman who could barely speak English came up to the desk and asked for some children’s books on American history and prominent early Americans. She said she wanted to induce patriotism in her child.
“Southern Baptist”
There’s a difference between southern Baptist and Southern Baptist. I was raised southern Baptist, a Baptist in the South. The Southern Baptists are a left-wing religion.
Early to bed, early to rise. Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
Started off Independence Day watching the Fourth of July episode of Libertys Kids with my 6 year old granddaughter. Shes known for a few years that we celebrate Americas birthday on the 4th, but this year she asked how it got to be Americas Birthday.
It emboldens them to push back on their liberal professors.
I did that and it cost me a grade level in a couple of classes.
I still got my Master's and retired after 45 years in aerospace.
Im raising two boys and Ill tell you that I dont really use any of these six things but I do use the left favorite tool
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I get them to ridicule liberals at every turn left us at every turn I called him stupid idiots Marxist morons over and over and over again and the kids basically agree with me
That stupid teenager Greta Thunberg or whatever ? they think shes a complete and utter moron
I point out over and over that its the liberals and leftists they constantly want to impose stupid rules about this and that and the other thing and they get it
One thing about that asswipe from Chicago and his cohorts and their little book rules for radicals is that it is effective and you have to use that on them
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