Heritage of the Lord

"If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Historically, children have for the most part just happened. Of all the important things we do generation after generation slips further and further away from the God designed pattern for raising our children.

Life is a complex layer of things. We could say there was the progressive movement that began in the early 1900's. The progressive movement got waylaid by several things through the years.

Some of which were recessions and depressions. Since public education depends on monies collected from the citizens when there was less money—there was less money to use for nonsense. Parents were still partially in control.

Fast forward through WWII and into the 1940's and 50's. The problem began in earnest in the 1940's when public schools began kicking 'religion' out of public schools. The cry of 'separation of church and state', was a ruse. It hadn't been a problem for 200 years. It wasn't now either.

At the time America was behind in the space race, some intelligentsia used the separation clause as a reason to cast out 'creation' and begin using the theory of evolution. Marginalize those narrow minded religious dingbats that hold us back.

The turn came slowly while the education system came between parents and child. Ever wonder how the 'generation gap' became such an event in our culture? It has created chaos by subtly teaching values that aren't in our nation's best interest and values that the majority of citizens don't agree with.

As my own children came of age and went off to public school I saw problems developing. A parent can be an astrophysicist but a child's school teacher trumps the parent. If a teacher imparts information, that information becomes the gospel truth, at least to that child. But my teacher said...

Now the child must choose between two icons that are very important to them. This creates a swirling mist in their young minds. It's a shifting no go zone in the mind.

As a child grows the infallible parent becomes less intelligent in the eyes of the child. The Bob and Linda Sessions Case in 1978 gave me and my family a wishful feeling, but we continued public schooling for another five years.

Then the oddest thing happened. We were called to homeschool. Well, we were called, and we did answer. But I was slow to catch on, it was like looking for the right question.

The fifth grade class (when my two oldest were in public school) had a film, and the school sent home permission slips for the kids to opt out of the film if the parents had a problem with the film.

Our first child slid by so easy, he didn't bring the slip home, we didn't know about it, and he watched the film.

Our second son the next year was a bit more clueless and brought the slip home. We were not happy about this. When kids go on field trips they have to have permission to GO on the trip. We felt the kids ought to have had to have permission to WATCH the film. As it was, no one knew about the film/or what the kids via the school were doing.

A few years later when our oldest son was going into ninth grade we were informed by the school that they would be having special events/speakers. Knowing we had objections to certain things, they would pull our kids out discreetly so they weren't bullied/teased/or didn't suffer embarrassment etc. for not participating.

That was the year we pulled all four of the older children out of public school. There were all sorts of happenings that occurred that goaded us into homeschooling.

I can't say that the obvious reason shouldn't have been staring us in the face. The question? What were the events and speakers they were going to have that we would object to? Why would no one else in the community object to it? (Was it because no one else knew it was happening?)

If we hadn't objected to the original film in the earlier grade, my guess is we would have been treated the same as the other families. We wouldn't have known either.

Here's another question—do you wonder why each progressive generation has more and more liberal points of view? And by the way, we were in a very rural community/school district.

Why is it that things that were considered immoral are now considered 'alternative lifestyles'? And our culture keeps sliding down more and more slippery slopes.

Parents that care need to be back in charge of schools and education. A bureaucrat will not love nor care about your kids or my kids more than you and I.

Psalms 127:3 "Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4) As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth. 5) Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate."