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Stand Firm [One Minute Feature]

Suit up and stand firm against the evildoers of our country, states, and towns.

In a culture where the license to anarchy is given, how do we teach our kids to stand firm? Do you as parents agree that we should stand firm?

Suit Up

If you have been watching the news lately you’ll see something in common to every city in America where anarchy is reigning and that is a permissive and appeasing attitude and a lack of any kind of discipline or punishment in the so-called progressive government that leads each of these cities.

I mean many say the root of it is to keep Donald Trump from being reelected but there are some deeper issues involved and some deeper lessons to be learned in it. You do not appease a rebel, you suit up, whatever you think that might look like metaphorically speaking and you prepare to stand your ground. You exercise the appropriate discipline including the appropriate amount of punishment politically incorrect as that term may be right now.

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Steadfast [One Minute Feature]

Parenting by the bible is the only way to parent, not by the culture in which we live.

To parent in today’s culture, you have to be strong and pray. How do you as a parent teach your children the moral truth? Do you believe that teachers, church officials, and other so-called role models have been pressured to promote the society they are wanting us to accept?

Parenting by the Book

For years I have been warning parents that so many of their kid's behavioral issues are born out of the systemic cultural insanity that has been permeating America’s infrastructure since the sixties and that too many of us have accepted it all as normal. Being drunk is normal for an alcoholic, but is it normal to be an alcoholic, of course not. Parents have got to convince our kids that we and not the perceived masses are on the right side of moral truth. Because today teachers, professors, government officials, media personalities, mental health, and even church officials have now been duped and or pressured to support and even promote this chaos. Be steadfast parents and pray lest the world goes insane.

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Adult Brats [One Minute Feature]

It is important for parents to understand the guidance that is needed for our children to grow up and be productive adults rather than spoiled brats who feel entitled to what others have worked so hard for.

The destruction we are seeing today in towns across America are not the doings of children but grown adults. Do you think this behavior will influence our children? Should this behavior be tolerated by other adults, law enforcement, and even our kids?

Rebellious Grown-Ups

The bible and what use to be called common sense is replete with the importance and the benefits of the discipline for kids and adults alike. The rioting we have seen in America is largely the adult version of entitled and rebellious spoiled brats throwing temper tantrums without consequences. It’s like they have been groomed for all of this by their permissive parents or parents who were indifferent.

Maybe their parents were just to busy or exhausted or perhaps their parents were not there at all. Basically what we are seeing is the logical outworking of what it looks like when herds of undisciplined children grow up to be undisciplined adults. Wise discipline can certainly hurt but it never harms. A lack of discipline ultimately does harm and now we are seeing that harm played out.

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Dad-poles [One Minute Feature]

An analogy as simple as missing frogs can explain how to avoid the chaos that exists today in our culture.

In our society, the lack of fathers in the home or even in the lives of their children has become greater than ever before. Do you believe this has caused a chaotic world? Do you believe if more dads were in the home there would be less chaos?

Disappearing

When it comes to understanding the chaos going on in America today, pundits are almost always four squares behind the deeper issues and long term solutions of addressing having dads in the homes. This problem is analystic to the strange disappearance of frogs.

As frog experts focus and pontificate on the reasons why frogs are missing, nobody addresses or even notices that something has first been eating the tadpoles. You can’t have frogs without first having tadpoles. So follow my analogy here. Solve the dad-pole problem and being knee-deep in senseless chaos will eventually diminish.

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Cops (4) [One Minute Feature]

Walking in another man’s shoes should apply to our police officers too. But not many would want to fill those shoes in our society today.

In our society, teaching our children what it is to serve and protect just might be the key to them respecting the law. Do you believe that kids understand the true meaning of serve and protect? Do you feel in our society our children are being taught otherwise?

Walk A Mile In His Shoes

One way to help your kids better understand and respect the police, is to try to get them to imagine walking in a policeman’s shoes. Police exist to serve and protect us. Romans 13 talks about police not being equipped with weapons for nothing, yet posing no fear for people who do right. Fleeing, resisting, or attacking police never ends well. Our kids should realize, though police are there to serve and protect us, they still have to protect themselves before they can serve and protect us. They rarely encounter people when people aren’t at their worst. Statistically certain sectors have given police greater cause for high alert than others. Challenge your kids with how they might police more efficiently if they were cops.

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Cops (3) [One Minute Feature]

Teach your children that by respecting the law and it’s enforcers, in return they will receive the same respect.

In today’s society, everyone is on edge especially with the latest activity involving police shootings across the nation. How do you teach your children to handle situations involving a police officer? Are you teaching them to respect the law instead of fearing the law?

Respect

Here are some virtually guaranteed ways not to have your kids shot by police. Though not a guarantee against a warranted arrest by a police officer, it is a virtual guarantee against being shot by one. First, teach your kids to respect and obey police even when they seem unfair or unreasonable because some low-grade officers do exist. Second, never resist arrest, submit peacefully, and let the legal process play out. Third, never flee from police, this automatically puts them on high alert and causes them to profile a non-compliant suspect as a guilty party. Teaching our kids to fear police than respecting them, can actually contribute to a family tragedy.

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Cops (2) [One Minute Feature]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In our culture today, what those are marching for, rioting for, and being arrested for, they couldn’t even tell you, because it is not for a cause but for a society that has lost sight of God and his love. How do you explain to your children what has happened in our society today when it comes to racism? Are you teaching them to fight racism with the law?

Is It Just A Dream

In light of tragedies involving police, it’s important to share with our kids that though racial injustice happens, it’s not systemic in America. But when it does happen should we deal with it with more injustice? Has that ever worked? We have a legal system.

Nobody made more headway pursuing racial justice than Dr. Martin Luther King. He marched peacefully, yet never rioted. If he got arrested, he didn’t run from or attempt to assault police. He used our legal system to improve our legal system and procure justice for all. Ultimately he united people though it cost him his life. Don’t fill your kid's beliefs that racism is still systemic to the police or to America, because it is not.

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