[cajungirl]

Someday we need a thread on what teachers and schools are doing to quell the warrior instinct. I saw it first hand with my born to be a soldier grandson, the bloodthirstiest kid I knew, a natural leader, loved to play war games, worshipped men in uniform and loved to hear war stories from me given to me by my father. He went to school and after a few weeks I was telling him about my second cousin who teaches men in the army to go down ropes while shooting,,,he is a ranger or something. Before school he would have been glued to the story dying to meet his soldier cousin. He looked very pained and said "I couldn't do that, it would be wrong to shoot people",,after explaining they were bad people trying to get us, he still wouldn't budge,,,his teacher has been teaching him pacifism. Now I don't want a criminal but kids need to know that soldiering and all it entails is honorable and worthy of emulating as grown ups. I think his teacher harmed him and it made me furious.

[eyespysomething]

I saw it first hand with my born to be a soldier grandson, the bloodthirstiest kid I knew, a natural leader, loved to play war games, worshipped men in uniform and loved to hear war stories from me given to me by my father

Are you sure you aren't my mother-in-law? LOL!!

I agree with the assessement of the pansification of boys in public education. Gun knowledge doesn't make criminals, exactly the opposite I would think. All 3 of ours know basic gun info/safety, and the youngest is 2 (his entails, no no, this is Daddy's and NO TOY!)

People who fear guns are uneducated on them, I know I was. Just make sure you let your grandson know how right our military is, and share with him some of the good news.

I cringed the first time my oldest said "Mommy, I just killed some A-rabs!!" but then what's different between that and kids in the 40's killing Nazis?

You sound like you have a wonderful grandson!

[dead]

Kids go through stages like that, when they are processing the conflicting information presented to them.

He'll work it out and come to the right resolution - "Killing people is bad, except when you are killing people that need killing."

[nevergore]

Some things must be taught in the home.....

Teaching pacifism is not necessarily a bad thing....it should be the first route of choice, HOWEVER, when the going get's tough, the back-up plan must fall into place....

Every warrior abhors war.....they do it because of the responsibility, duty and honor....

Get after your daughter or son to teach the responsibility of defending this country to you grandson......

I speak from experience, my daughter is now going through Basic at the US Air Force Academy as we speak......"Others before Self"

NeverGore

[Darksheare]

I had always wanted to be asoldier.
I was about 5 when I first burted it ouot.
I had tons of people try to dissuade me, even some supposed Christians who had served in the uniform themselves.
I was told every excuse in the book, and then some new ones, about how it was wrong to join the military.

I joined anyway.
Field Artillery.
I'm glad I served, but somehow feel 'envious' of my fellow soldiers who went over seas. Kinda like a hunting dog who never got to hunt.
*chuckle*

Your grandson's teachers are idiots, and they fear individuality now.
And try to quash creativeness.
It seems that everyone must now be 'one' with the 'collective', so to speak.

[admiralsn]

That is sad. As a teacher of Seniors, I have strongly encouraged several young men to go into the military. Mostly for discipline, college funds, etc., but also because some were "born for it." A teacher should never mold a child into something that they are not.