We're not quite to the grandkid stage yet, but have done this sort of "teachable moment" talk with our kids on every subject imaginable -our youngest two just turned 18 and we are still having these talks. Just the other day we discussed Rush and the "slut" ordeal (hope you will get a bye on that one for a while, Jeff!)
Teachable moments are out there just waiting for parents and grandparents to reinforce commonsense ideas and to refute the phony illogical liberal "truths" they are exposed to on a daily basis. The key is, like Jeff, to ask questions, and to gently guide them to the discovery of a right and proper response.
The really cool thing is it has legs - because you chose to teach and not preach, I guarantee that your precious grandkids will patiently explain to their friends the very concept you taught. I've seen it in action, and it's the best feeling in the world!
Amen to all of that. BTW, what mMiss Fluke was promoting (ie. promiscousos sex with “protection” paid for by you and I) is in fact the very definition fo the word “slut.”
Rush simply told the truth, though he should have generalized about the behavior and not the person because Miss Fluke, while “testifying” used a lot of lawyer speak to very carefull avoid incriminating herself in that activity.
Fact is though, actions and words ahve meaning and consequence. When I was youger, people, and partiocularly women, who pracitced promiscuous sex were considered sluts. If they did not want to be considered such, then they did not behave that way.
All of thios is just more attacks on traditional morals and marriage and the family which has the direct goal of destroying the very foundation of this Republic.
The freedom we enjoy, granted by God, is nased on fundamental moral principle. If society sets those principles aside...by and by we will lose our freedom and liberty as our founders warned.