Lies We Shouldn’t Have Told Our Children

americanthinker ^ | 6/2/2023 | Deanna Chadwell

[bitt]

Well, Santa Claus for one -- the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin, etc., but none of those are as damaging as others that we have consistently pounded into our kids’ thinking. Let’s look at some of them:

1) You can become anything you want to be. Theoretically that’s nice. We want our kids to dream, to reach for the stars. We fail, however, because we don’t finish the lesson. We don’t point out that there are some limits. Why should a person like myself (I have a singing range of about three notes and very little control over which of those notes I hit.) spend her life trying to be a singer? Shouldn’t reality appear here somewhere?

We don’t really want our kids to spend their lives banging their heads against impossibilities. That’s why this hairbrained idea of transsexualism has caught on. After all, if you can be whatever you want to be, there’s no reason a young man’s urge to strut in stilettos shouldn’t be entirely fulfilled. Right? One way to test an idea is to stretch it to its extremes and if it still holds up, it may be valid. Obviously, we can toss this one on the ash heap.

2) You should make the world a better place. What’s wrong with that? For one, it’s impossible. We can each make an effort to make our own little patch of society as pleasant and productive as possible, but change the world? That’s a tall order. It’s also way too vague to be useful. What is “better?” By whose standards? How do we define “the world?” How much of the world? For how long? At whose expense? What do we mean by “change?” And, most importantly, who will

[Glad2bnuts]

Exactly, you spend your life teaching of the joys of Christmas, believe in Santa and you will be rewarded. I told my children the truth. Christmas is a holiday invented by retailers to make money. Nearly all other cards and holidays are the same. Easter? another fake out.

[Elsie]

and GOD said...

[bitt]

The Soviet Union did that to kids, too.

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yeah. We had “typing class” and “college classes”.

[Taxman]

ping