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Raising the Hope For America’s Future
Look for it online or
ask for it at your favorite bookstores. For anyone who has the
propensity to influence children. (This is as commercial as
I get.) Another in the exclusive
series of articles that further explore the subject of parenting. Setting
Up Normal Deborah
Venable 05/10/08 I spend a lot of time
trying to convince parents of small children just how important it is to
maintain consistency in the home environment they create for their
children. Lord knows these days that
can be a tall order contrasted to the upheaval we see around us in
society. But the important thing to
remember is that whatever you set up as “normal” will be grounding for
children – the constant that they will use to compare to the world around
them. How many times have we
heard interviews with people who have survived some crisis in their lives, or
even criminals who have gone on to commit atrocities themselves reflect on
their childhood experiences and make a reference to those experiences being
what they considered normal?
Specifically in cases of long-running child abuse, we find that the
abused end up being abusers in adult life in so many cases. Of course there are exceptions, but the
“normal” response to parenting is to draw upon your own experiences as a child. These experiences may affect your
parenting positively or negatively depending on what you have worked out as
right or wrong – and depending on what you perceive to be normal. The very salvation of
future generations depends on the parenting of each generation. It is as simple as that. A mistake in “setting up normal” for the
majority of only one generation can have a devastating effect on the future
“health” of a society. I believe that
we are on the brink of that majority mistake. Too many parents have
given their children over to a public education system that has continually
lowered the bar for “normal” and is insisting on being the main influence in
the lives of children. Normal for
these children will reflect the collective thought of government mandate –
not the individual value influenced by moral decency and the cherished
traditions of strong family building. We have two choices
where the deplorable public education system is concerned. We can either change it or abandon
it. I’ve been waiting for evidence of
positive changes for decades now, and have witnessed only negative ones. I abandoned it for the completion of my
youngest two children’s education via home schooling and have never regretted
that choice. The normal education of
children must begin with loving parents who promote real family values. As clichéd as that sounds, it is at the
heart of our national decency and our unequaled success. Setting up normal for families in these
trying times requires a strong moral character that knows what is right and
is not afraid to make that crystal clear to children. For example, it is not
normal for children to perceive sex as a recreational right, but adults have
continually modeled that behavior to the extent that we have children selling
themselves short and putting their lives and futures in jeopardy to follow
the example of indecency. The recent
spate of children sending and posting to the internet pictures of themselves
immersed in sexual innuendo is anything but comforting. Where are the parents telling their children
that this is wrong – not normal behavior?
Recently, Conservative
Times published one of these “Professional Parenting” articles also. It is not archived on this site, but you
may click this link to read it. Raising the Hope –
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©2006-2008 Through the Lens Of Happy Endings My salute to Charlton Heston DebV The Most Important Issue Deborah Venable 05/10/08 As
media microphones capture responses from the question about the most
important issue facing us in this election cycle, those of us who really
think about it can probably list a plethora of issues that might answer
it. Let’s see, in the last few months
I have heard the so-called top response change several times depending on
whichever way the wind happens to be blowing at the time. I doubt if any politician running for
office this November can pin it down on a day-to-day basis. As
for the general public’s response to the question, it seems to fluctuate
between the war in Iraq and the underlying threat of terrorism in the world,
the economy and our shrinking dollar with our trade deficit figured in,
border security and the effects of illegal aliens on our strained
infrastructure, and global warming – reality or hoax. No matter how you slice it though, all of
it eventually ties into the economy, and most Americans are just not savvy
economists. Here
is what I believe. If the American
people could come together in a common goal to elect only those
representatives that could legitimately prioritize expenditures, take what’s
left of our national checkbook and make it stretch to cover only what must be
covered, and encourage individual citizens to do the same, the correct
solutions to all our problems would come automatically and with lightening
speed. I realize that is pie in the
sky dreaming and more than a little wishful thinking, but that is precisely
what it would take. What
comes out of this thinking is a very important fact. We, as a people, can still do whatever it
takes to survive and prosper if and only if we are not divided. So, what divides us then? We are divided by our insistence on
defining our basic philosophies, even if we don’t know the true definitions,
even if we float back and forth across those lines of divisions depending on
the specific issues we are addressing, or worse than that, sitting in the
middle and refusing to make clear choices.
We are at the mercy of politicians who will exploit our indecision and
our ignorance. It
is bad science to only hear one side of a story, only consider one set of
solutions to a problem, or make up “facts” that cannot be proven. It is bad economics to turn our finances
over to someone else without periodic accountability, to shirk all
responsibility for our financial outcomes, or to base our financial futures
on what we can convince someone else we will be worth in that future. But it is truly very bad form for us to
toss aside the importance of historic knowledge, the proliferation of a free
and courageous spirit, and the absolute dedication of all who have
unselfishly sacrificed to build and secure the greatest country on
earth. Some
of the politicians we have elected for years and years have continued to lie,
cheat, and steal the best that is this country just to satisfy their thirst
for power. We are responsible for
that! We are! We gave them their power, our trust, and
our money and they gave us back a total misuse of all of it! Because of our poor decisions in the past,
the pool of “hopefuls” to attain the highest office in the land is poisoned
with ambitious power seekers who are woefully ignorant of the most important
issue. The
most important issue is the treasure that is America. America is a living, breathing sea of
humanity in a world that is starving for what we have. Ancient foreign lands have rich histories
and proud citizens, natural wonders and abundant resources, strong armies and
intellectual prowess, but none of them – not one – has pulled itself up by
the bootstraps from a fledgling colony of misfits and castoffs to become the
most strident defender of humanity the world has ever known – in a mere 230
years. That took uniqueness,
individual sacrifice, and courage to learn from past mistakes and fix what
was broken every single time we were threatened. So,
what is the most important issue facing us today? Preservation of the treasure – that sometimes ill-defined
uniqueness that makes us tick. If we
don’t start teaching our children exactly what that is, and insisting that
the representatives we elect defend it with the power and resources we
provide, then we will surely fall prey to a continuing divisiveness that will
eventually wipe out the best thing humanity has going for it. The most important issue should always be
the spirit that is uniquely American.
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