Sometimes I am required by disposition to drop to my knees in thankful and appreciative prayer for the intellectual and honest fellowship on these pages; this is one of those times.
When I describe the nature of our affiliation to those in similar networks, some of those you would likely call familiar, I am often asked why I spend so much time reviewing the commenting section of our diverse conversation on the porch. My answer is the same as the repeated emphasis I provided to those who rescued us from the Big Tech deplatforming effort… “the conversation is the point.”
You are the absolute best group of online people assembled. PERIOD. You are what makes me smile, feel optimistic, feel encouraged and positive about the future amid the whirlwind of chaos generated by the professional political class. Quite simply, you.. that’s right, YOU, are the modern WE THE PEOPLE. Feel good about that as you look at the person you see in the mirror when you brush your teeth. Give yourself credit, you are awesome.
An incredible conversation starts with one simple and profoundly interesting point from Lorrie…
“I teach humanities in a public middle school. The history portion of the curriculum is the study of ancient civilizations. I NEVER espouse either my personal religious or political views — ever!
Yesterday I asked my students to write down — as a quick write– what they knew about our current government– who is in charge… how does it work…
NADA. Zilch.
These kids write every single day in my class.
Many left the paper blank.
Most said, “I don’t know anything about our government.” A few mentioned who the president is.
Hmmmm…..
Ten years ago, I had students yammering their opinions on all sorts of political topics. I realize that usually they were parroting what they hear from family members.
Today, silence.”
Big wisdom follows from Paul:
“I don’t put it on the kids because in your original post you mention that 10 years ago, kids yammered away with opinions. Something shifted. It’s why I asked the question.
This tells me they are not hearing it at home. Their parents are not talking about it. Nor are others around them. Then they spend hours upon hours on their phones on social media.
They are isolated and being manipulated. They just don’t know it. And their parents ignore it because they too, more than likely, have been swallowed by the Borg.
Sad times.”
A simple response, with just as profound an affirmation from Oscar:
“Sad to confirm Paul but everything you say is true and has swallowed up my 20 yo daughter. The self isolation and 100% reliance on her phone for information is beyond disturbing to me. I pay for her phone because it helps her keep her job. I’m seriously thinking of pulling the plug and forcing her to pay phone expenses.
I speak with her regularly regarding current events, Gaza, Biden, etc. but have a hard time staying calm. She doesn’t read anything other than what’s spoon fed her through her iphone. She has zero historical context or background for any of her communist inspired rhetoric. She is completely manipulated. Her two brothers are complete MAGA and know what’s happening.
Her older sister is Lib and will not change due to peer pressure among the elite crowd in NYC that she works and socializes with. Obviously, my experience has been much tougher with my two daughters. I used to believe that a liberal is a future conservative once they age, pay taxes and are mugged by reality. My daughter in NYC has been mugged once by herself visiting DC and again in DC with her hyper lib, former college roommate (all within the last 18 months) and they both are still Lib. I will never give up on them. I constantly send them conservative, logical articles (VDH is a favorite) and I always try to lead by example.”
Please, if you are so inclined, let us continue this conversation in this breakout post.
There is large value within this discussion and trust me – I, along with millions of like-minded mules, some with a profound reach and beyond your imagining importance, read every single word with contemplation, introspection and appreciation.
♦ Last point. When you drop a stone into a pond a ripple is created. The ripple expands in an ever-increasing circle. Once you drop the stone, there is no way to reverse the process of the ripple expanding. Such is the pond of life and ultimately the love, wisdom and value you drop within it.
This simple fellowship we call The Conservative Treehouse exists, because of you – not me, YOU.
You are the point.
You are the value.
You are the gift.
Feel that…. along with my profound appreciation for your incredible value.
Love to all.
Steadfast,
~ Sundance
For me, I have certain “go-to’s” where I get my News round-up. When I hit CTH, I am ready to be challenged. I also know I have work to do here. Sound wierd? Let me explain. A lot of what is posted here I am generally familiar with, not always, but mostly. Typically however SD or even a commenter has a different take, a unique take where I have to do homework. What find of homework or work? I need to think about what I just read. In a deep way. Add it it what I know and let the stew stir. Now for me, I do FB. It is a surveilance silo and there is much wrong. but I do my best to disseminate what I can putting the info / content in my words and providing a link – yes, on FB…. CTH has been linked by me on FB thousands of time. Now you say what good does this do little man? Well, there is a thing called ripple effect. I only have to reach one person. I also share things I see here with friends and family (if receptive) But that all aside, there is another service provided here: The info SD posts or comments expound upon “confirming the brethren” – if you are Catholic -you will get where I am going with this. We believers need to have our faith in the good and the beautiful restored again and again. Our faith must be constantly confoirmed cause face it, we lose hope and we lose faith. So this site does all of that – it helps fortify us, strengthen us. I am just a lawyer from New Jersey but I have seen things. And let me tell you, you never want to lose hope and faith… +
This site and Sundances insights coupled with the overwhelming preponderance of contributors has been a real God-send for me over past 4 years, for not only the content and and incisive perspective of our family here but the rapport that constitutes our “raison-detre” for contributing. In some-wise, , it’s almost an end in itself … the fraternal bond , as it were.
Thanks so much Sundance for providing the space to make it so with your untiring efforts enabling us to do more beyond these margins…
Our Lady of Fatima… Ora Pro Nobis!
Bayes’ Theorem essentially states that I should constantly test the verasity of what I believe to be true when I add newly acquired facts. Practicing principles of wisdom tells me that questions never stop. The more information I add to my personal knowledge base, the finer pointed the questions of what I believe to be true become.
This site and all of the diverse minds working out their own perspectives of what we are living through, then sharing in comments—is priceless. It has taken me on many very busy exercises and results often in enlightenment, occasionally in an epiphany. Thank you all.
Well said!
I feel enriched by this Treehouse. There’s an understanding of where true power lies and an appreciation that the foundation of America is based on the goodness of Divinity. Everyday I too, like this Treehouse, pray for the safety and protection of our country. And I ask God to bless all of humanity and lead us back to the ways of the Divine Plan. We’ve been told enough about it to know we should love God with all our mind, heart and strength. And love our neighbor as we love ourselves. And to know that this is a Big Truth, not a simple cliché as materialists insist in their dismissal of things invisible. That there are invisible things they can’t destroy really bothers them. Anyway that’s my thought in reading the Treehouse today.
The fellowship of the tree-rings.
Had a friend in 2012 through 2015. We were somewhat close, but when Donald Trump came on the scene, and she, along with a group of women whom we both knew and hung-out with, found out I was fully in support of Donald Trump for President, they all stopped talking to me. None of them wanted anything to do with me, and some of them were just plain mean about it.
Shrug my shoulders and moved on, almost glad since my life soon became all about getting Donald Trump elected. Those were the days of me volunteering for his Presidency 16 hours a day/6 days a week; I had little time for living a normal life and once in a while my husband would kindly tell me, ‘He missed me,’ and then I’d take a day or two off to let him know he is most important.
Anyway. . .
When Donald Trump was elected and people saw he wasn’t the war monger people said he’d be, or wasn’t all the other evil things the media said he would turn out to be, a few of the people who walked away slowly came back into my life. One was the friend whom I’d been somewhat close to from 2012 to 2015.
She never said she was wrong about Donald Trump, but she said the country would end if he didn’t get elected in 2020 — a huge change from one election to the next.
This friend has had a major turn-around in her world-view, and I believe it was due to Donald Trump/President Trump.
President Trump did not teach her how to can chicken and turkey, butter and milk, but what he did in exposing the evil around us caused her to see she better do those things in preparation of what could possibly happen.
President Trump did not help her install security barriers on her doors and windows, but he told her what the swamp was clearly planing for our country and its borders — and the millions of illegals who were going to be heading our way.
President Trump did not teach her to prepare, tell her when to bug-out, give her a list of the signs to watch for, the things she’d need, the things that might be of value along the way, but he did open her eyes to what truly covers much of our land — the swamp — and taught her that unless she/we take action — all of us — our country will be like sheep to the slaughter.
And she learned that he, President Trump, is a fearless man who can lead the way.
With God’s blessings and hand of protection on him.
One small drip of water that had been very liberal and is now a patriot.
Your posting has been very encouraging to me.
Thank you.
Nice. 🙂
It’s a wonderful story but your writing enhanced the impact.
👍👍
We (thankfully) became preppers in 2020 during the “Summer of Mostly Peaceful Burning, Looting, & Murdering” (not to mention #FakeCovidAndJabHysteria) of 2020.
Especially after BLaMtifa threatened to riot here. Yeah, “Try That In A Small Town.” It didn’t work out too well for them, when hundreds — including me — showed up downtown with ARs and sidearms. They won’t be back here ….
💕👏👏👏💕
Well said.
I grew up in a Christian home where the Bible was our plumb line.
At all times, God’s Word is true. My parent’s beliefs made them solid
Conservatives. In both areas, they were vocal about their beliefs and were able
to defend them.
I remember going house to house as a teenager handing out AuH2O
(Goldwater) pencils and notepads for the upcoming election. My Dad, a Precinct
leader involved us and explained why we believed how we did. At the time, there
were no viable alternatives to either the Democrat or Republican parties, but
my parents hated the “Rockefeller Wing” of the Republican Party. The
same ilk who mismanage it today; Ronna, whose Uncle would “vote for anyone
other than Trump”.
Donald J. Trump offered us an alternative to both parties, but
specifically the Republican Party as it at least gave lip service to being
Conservative. As a political outsider, he spotlighted the inconsistencies and
double-speak coming out of the mouths of those claiming to be Conservatives,
and the “leadership” of the party. He won because we the people had
had enough lies. In winning, he showed us that our voice mattered, but more
than that, he demonstrated courage to lead, and led by example. His successes
as President fill pages; best economy in forty years, lowest unemployment
amongst all races, energy independence, etcetera. His failure was trusting his
staff who were nothing but swamp people who were there for careers, not the
country. He would be gone in more than eight years, and they had beltway jobs
to nurture. He was wrong to trust Fauci on Covid-1984, but that Mengele Jr. was
the man he relied on. Though I consider that to be DJT’s biggest mistake, I
don’t fault him for it as he simply didn’t know better at the time.
The President Donald J. Trump election steal of 2020 demonstrated
new lengths and methods that the Leftists (masquerading as Democrats) would go
to “win” an election. We all new they were going to cheat. They
always have. What we were unaware of and were unprepared for was all the
various means, specifically electronically, and with ballot tabulating. Here, I
must give a shout out to Steven K. Bannon’s “Pandemic War Room”!
Without Steve, Raheem Kassam, and the myriad of others he had on his show, I
wouldn’t have made it through the two months after the ballot count(s). A
little hyperbole there as my God is always ever present.
The Pandemic War Room provided up to the minute analysis with
video evidence, data analysis of ballot tabulations showing the spike in both
directions indicating vote theft, and the forensic evidence provided by expert
witness Jovan Pulitzer demonstrating that many of the ballots were printed on
Chinese paper, were not the correct thickness or size, and their registrations
either by accident, or deliberately caused them to be kicked out for review. It
was in reviewing that the arbitrator could/would consistently mark ballots for
Biden, and often times, run them over and over again. Thank you again Steve!!!
In that theft, again President Donald J. Trump led by example. He
called out the cheating and didn’t just shy away as his back stabbing Vice did.
(RSV Proverbs 20:6) “Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but a faithful
man who can find?” Mr. Mike is undoubtedly a fine Christian man, many
attest to his faith, but he is no Constitutional scholar, nor faithful to his
boss, nor to the office he held. What came of all this was that the people who
were, or are paying attention is that some finally see the deep state for what
it is, how it manipulates, and how the Ronna’s GOPe is just another wing of the
UniParty. They are infiltrated for most part with poltroons. Notable exceptions
are members like the Conservative Caucus who with Matt Gaetz leadership ousted
the obfuscating Kevin McCarthy from the Speakership.
The January 6th Rally in DC came and the largest crowd I’ve ever seen was peacefully assembled. Everyone was friendly, talked politely, and I never heard a hateful word until in the presence of Antifa who were interspersed in the crowd walking to the Capital. Thy were easy to spot, but I’ll leave the details alone for now. The Leftists have and are still arresting people who attended on phony charges, and still have most unconstitutionally imprisoned. Yes, there were idiots who broke into offices, stole House property, and made fools of themselves. Yet, most are unlawfully detained more than two years after the fact.
Many, from the press to “Conservative” leaders attempted to
gaslight we the people by declaring the leaderless Republican House was being coopted
by a rogue fringe and they were putting the country in a terrible state. Back to my past life; my wife and I assisted
a man back in Colorado to win a seat to the House. My wife worked for him for ten years. That said, one of the things he would
reiterate when the House shut down due to inclement weather was “any day the
government isn’t at work, they not spending more of your money”. We finally have a what most of us hope is a Conservative
Leader of the House. We’ll see what he is
able to accomplish with the assistance of Gaetz and crew in spite of the
poltroon RINOs filling the rest of that side of the isle.
What this debacle has taught us with the indefatigable efforts of Sundance and the Conservative Treehouse is that the 17 or 18 “Intelligence” bureaus are the enforcers of the Deep State and that the countries only hope is to reelect President Donald J. Trump in 2024 and hope and PRAY that he will act with wisdom and understanding, dismantling as much of the Deep State as possible.
God is our only real hope, but he provides leaders to take the reigns at times when after repenting and turning away from our own devices, He makes a way where there is no way. Gideon was such a leader millennia ago, and President trump is or Gideon of today.
Keep up the phenomenal work Sundance! Shalom!
One area that we can push back is child labor laws and wage/benefit mandates. That whole grift is a protection racket for the unions.
One of the most important things that a kid can receive is a job. At any age. Anyone who has raised a child knows that they innately want to help. With everything.
Foster that, nurture that; give them a job. And another job, and another. A kid with a job will grow in confidence, self-reliance, skill, industriousness; they will learn to be relied on and in return will be more reliable; they will experience interaction with adults and others who Value what the kid does. They will become the leaders we need. Kids of all ages need jobs; they need the opportunity to contribute and be appreciated for what they add.
The government has sold our children to the unions, but we can work around that. There are ways to allow citizens younger than 18 to work and be productive (and rewarded). They can be independent contractors, they can work for their parents; they can fit in the gaps we find to get past the efforts of the government to keep them inexperienced and dependent.
I cannot remember the last time I read or heard anyone repeat that wisdom. I heard it many times from my parents and grandparents in my youth. It has been forgotten and lost to three generations since the 1960s.
I started cutting lawns at 10 years old. That winter I added shoveling snow off sidewalks and front porches. Newspaper routes were unavailable since adults with station wagons or pickups took all those jobs. When I turned twelve, my parents gave me an electric drill. Montgomery Ward Powerkraft 3/8” chuck. I built a workbench with it and a handsaw. Used that bench until I got married and moved into a small apartment.
When I turned 16, I applied for a work permit, got it, and got hired by a local fast food chain that was owned by one of the Baltimore Colts, Gino Marchetti. Worked there 25-30 hours per week right through high school until my last semester before graduation, switching to a electronics tech job at the local drive in movie theater. Had to repair broken speakers and the sound distribution amplifiers when the vacuum tubes wore out.
I don’t remember ever taking a summer vacation once I turned 15. I did play in a rock band for a few years and we made money but spent it on instruments and equipment. My work ethic came from my elders. Grandfather was a white collar worker at the railroad but also learned shorthand and taught it at night school part time. He went to law school at night and got a law degree and passed the Maryland Bar. Then he also got a license to sell insurance. My father got a law degree after the war using his VA benefits, and used that at his job with the railroad. He also got his insurance license and joined the board of a family business-a building and loan in West Baltimore. They were one of the first in the city to lend money to blacks for mortgages. The board met every Wednesday evening after dinner to review loan applications and current status of existing loans.
I think we practiced what you stated so well.
This is an often overlooked area. People gain a sense of worth from being needed, providing a service, being competent in something, earning money. Our children are being deprived of this opportunity and what is the result? The highest rate of depression, sexual abuse / confusion, and suicide the country has ever seen. Mass self-hatred has followed right along with their hatred for the country.
My son got his first job in seventh grade, a paper route. We then opened a passbook savings account for him, and he was the one who decided how to spend his money. Thus he learned to prioritize his wants and needs. It has stood him in good stead.
(He was born in 1977.)
This is a spiritual battle. My two girls, 28 and 25, have pretty good heads about them, although I wouldn’t call them MAGA per se (they question everything, as we taught them to do). They know that our only hope found in our sovereign King, Jesus Christ, not some benevolent government or leader.
I attribute their dispositions to three things:
1. God’s grace. Their mother and I were far from perfect parents and we went through some tumultuous times. God was faithful to “cover over a multitude of sins.”
2. Godly mentors: This stated with my wife quitting here job to homeschool and teach godly truths. And there were ladies in our community that spent countless hours pouring into their lives at critical times.
3. Summit Ministries – a Christian worldview academy. We sent both girls to Summit their junior and senior years. This two week intensive training by top of their field experts taught them their Christian faith was not a blind. without deep intellectual merrit, but rather a belief system uniquely sufficient in explaining what we experience in this mixed up world.
These, I believe, helped shape them into successful young adults that seem to be harder to find these days. Maybe these could help someone else.
And yet TCTH censored (read removed) my posting that contradicted the tidalwave narrative here absolving Chauvin 100% while condemning his accusers to Hell.
I pointed out that he could have helped Floyd survive rather than pinning him by the neck in the gutter till dead.
Yes I was condemned and bad mouthed and then the CTH censors removed my comments. Big bad brave ain’t the only description for a usually spot-on Sundance. Unreal that you can’t tolerate criticism where the rubber hits your road.
Oops.
There are recently released videos and still photographs that prove that Chauvin DID NOT have his knee on the neck of the career criminal and drug addict Floyd. There was one still photograph and video that was allowed in the trial and to the MSM taken from an angle which made it appear that the knee was on his neck.
The drug test taken during the autopsy proves that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose. That was known even before the trial. You can download a copy. I did, way back before the trial.
I would paste URL links if I thought that you were just unintentionally uninformed. They are readily findable, if you are sincere and have an open mind.
It is obvious that Chauvin was railroaded if the episode was real.
I am not convinced that the whole thing was not a false flag, with Chauvin in on the production. There was a whole lot of weirdness going on, including Chauvin working as a security guard for an establishment that was passing counterfeit currency.
The event succeeded in the intended goal, driving a wedge between white and black, to execute the divide and conquer strategey.
Be honest! Be fair! Your post was out of line in some regard? It broke one or more of the rules? The rules for commenting are at the top of every page in the gray header … “Comment Guidelines”. Why shouldn’t you be condemned and bad mouthed? Many people here are bad mouthed and condemned on a daily basis. This shouldn’t be a popularity contest. If you have something you want to say and you know it’s going to catch a lot of flak, and it doesn’t violate the rules, say it! People should be open to other opinions but no one needs to agree with your opinion.
I notice you here commenting so I guess you weren’t banned?
Chauvin went to prison for using an approved restraint. Byrd shot Ashley Babbitt in cold blood and walked away scot-free.
It’s a shame that you haven’t done the due diligence before you posted.
Go look up the documentary ‘The Fall of Minneapolis’, it’s free on Rumble.
Then come back and revisit your post.
I saw your post Everett. Not sure when it was removed as you say, but I did read it.
Please keep in mind Sundance and don’t sell yourself short. None of us would be here if you had not built the treehouse for us all to hang around in and sometimes sit around the fire you have built to discuss topics well into the night. We thanks you for your effort.
indeed…respect!
As an Aussie, I have found no better site than this for a complete education on American Politics. I read all the articles and comments and continue to learn. Thank you to you all.
I am also a very strong supporter of President Donald Trump and am amazed at his strength and fortitude when being so constantly attacked for loving his country and wanting to do the best for the people. God Bless Trump, his family the treepers and Sundance for opening my eyes.
Let me add one note of hopefulness re our young people….
I was asked to speak to a group of young adults at a Catholic Church that is chockablock with young adults about finding purpose in life—their great anguish—who am I? What am I here for? When the pastor asked me to speak, I was very reluctant. I am 40 years older than they. I never had children. I have no clue how to talk to young adults. But I accepted. I was so worried that my words wouldn’t resonate with them at all, given what I read about young people in the newspapers and hear from my friends. But my husband said, “Be brave. Say what you think they need to hear and lets the chips fall.”
300 people came to the talk. You could have heard a pin drop the whole time. Afterwards they asked such good questions. These were SERIOUS young people, eager to live in contradiction to their peers, even if it is hard and very scary. They feel s so so alone.
The young woman who wrapped up the evening said, “I will ask the question that is on all our minds….will you adopt us? We are aching for older people who will lead us and mentor us and care about helping us be a force for good in our families and among our colleagues and neighbors. Please keep helping us.”
The compliment was lovely. Let me set it aside. What struck me is the realization that there is so much THIRSTY ground out there. These young adults want us and need us. They feel they have no one who will listen and who cares. I don’t know what, if anything, they are hearing in their own families, but lots of times, wisdom from one’s own family comes with a lot of baggage (that was certainly the case with my parents) and they simply don’t hear it. I always say everyone needs a mother (or a father) who is not their mother (or father). Sometimes young people hear better from people who are not their own parents. So, with wisdom and grace, if you will teach my relatives, I will teach yours!
Most traditional societies had a system where at a certain age, kids were taught by elders who were not their parents. An old warrior or hunter would teach youth that weren’t his own. We seem to have edged away from that to “let the state do it.” That’s not turned out well.
I completely agree! I wish something like that old system were still common. I do my best to befriend young adults—and I have a little “bouquet” of them, but it takes a lot to keep the relationships going, especially as they move away to pursue better opportunities. But at least I will have planted a seed. I console myself with that. We never know what God will do with the little seeds we plant!
The Lakota sent a boy to live with a different family, often one with an adult male whom he would emulate, after he reached a certain age. During that time, he couldn’t speak directly to to his mother or female siblings. It worked out pretty well.
I raised 4 kids from 1981 to 2006. The first three are all good conservatives and are living very productive lives. #4 on the other hand met a girl that was a huge mistake in judgment on his part. He was even a conservative, but he got completely lost. He and his girlfriend popped out 4 kids from 2014 to 2018. After the first three were part of our lives, my son and the gf’s drug use was so out of control that CPS took the three little girls away from them. We became foster parents to 3 girls in 2018. We adopted them less than a year later. She was pregnant with #4 when all this came about, but we decided no to take him, given that we would be 81 when he graduates from high school. He was adopted by a maternal great-aunt, and our girls get to see him and the rest of their mother’s family a lot. They do not see their mother.
The point of my story is that I am raising these 3 little girls with all of my conservative values and morals. They are now ages 6, 8 and 9. The kids you described are very likely what my girls will grow up to be. I believe church is the glue that will keep them on the straight and narrow.
God Bless You and Give You Strength!
God bless you for all the hard work you do—and for all the heart-ache you endure. You are doing the one thing that so few people do these days, “get involved in the mess of other people’s lives.” There is so much virtue signaling about “what I stand for,” on all the hot topics of the day. But are they doing anything but marching, texting, or posting black squares on Facebook? You, on the other hand, took real people into your life—for better or for worse. You took the worse and turned these kids into the best, all with the grace of God. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Bless you! Bless you! Bless you!
Right back at you Sundance. Your words and wisdom are living gold to me, keep up the great work!
Not sure if we did something right or just got lucky, but both of my sons (26 and 23) are conservatives. My older son’s wife is Vietnamese and she and her family (at least her parents) are also conservative (they arrived after the war, that may have had something to do with it) and voted for Trump. The kids grew up with the cell phones and social media stuff, but we tried to offer alternatives, like camping, sports, etc. and I think it worked. As a side note, my oldest son has two AR-15’s and a 9mm S&W, and I didn’t even have anything to do with it.
I first came to CTH when I saw a post by SD in 2015 about why he was supporting Donald J. Trump. So was I but few agreed. SD was a voice in the wilderness. I never left. I read CTH every day for the best political insight out there. It truly is the Last Refuge.
In December 2014 young Jessica Chambers was murdered in Mississippi. Only Sundance&crew seemed to care about Jessica, and by January 2015 I visited the Treehouse every day for company and comfort in a demented world
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/02/24/jessica-chambers-murder-suspect-serving-burglary-sentence-in-mississippi/69940347007/
There is much discussion of the evil of cellphones. These phones are a huge comfort to me while I follow the lives of loved ones thousands of miles away. I recognize the surveillance drawbacks but am nonetheless grateful for these inventions.
I wish more focus would be placed on illiteracy, which was first pointed out in the 1950s when immigrant Rudolf Flesch realized his grandson was being taught to read English as if it were Chinese, and wrote bestseller “Why Johnny Can’t Read and what you can do about it”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Johnny_Can%27t_Read
Several southern stayes including Mississippi have had very respectable gains by bringing phonics back into reading instruction
https://apnews.com/article/reading-scores-phonics-mississippi-alabama-louisiana-5bdd5d6ff719b23faa37db2fb95d5004
started on phonics in 1959 under the nuns (Catholic school)
always held me in good stead, impeccable spelling and word recognition all my life
Excellent! In the early 1950s my mother taught us kids to read phonetically starting at age 3, two years before kindergarten.
When my older sister and I started first grade, we were each rated at third grade reading level. They thought my sister was exceptional, but when I came along two years later with equal skill, they called my mom into school for a conference. So when she sat down with the teacher and the principal, they asked her how she taught us to read. She was a bit surprised and told them the method and which books she used for training and practice. Apparently she was taught that way (phonetics) by her mother and stepfather in the late 1920s.
Phonics / phonetics works, but must be practiced daily. I still remember sitting on the floor reading from the children’s books next to my mother who was standing at an ironing board and ironing clothes while correcting me or complimenting me.
My wife did essentially the same with our children in the late ‘70s. They both did very well in school.
Phonics being taught in my grandsons’ kindergarten class in SC to my delight.
That’s exactly the time I started coming to the Treehouse. Been here ever since. I relate to so many people here, and enjoy sharing my views.
First of all, this post seems to be out of place for the discussion. That said, this guy is a poster child for the death penalty.
This isn’t a matter of blood lust. We give up freedom to the government with the expectation that the government will enforce the law and protect people as the Declaration of Independence clearly states, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
How many people does this waste of humanity need to kill, before he is executed, if only for the safety of others?
Whenever I argue with a SJW about the death penalty, I tell the SJW that I am not condemning the criminal to death, but the criminal committed heinous acts which warrant the death penalty as punishment. Therefore the final fault actually belongs with the criminal.
I feel so terrible for the parents of these victims. I pray that God can ease their pain.
I used to believe in the same vein, until one day, several decades ago, it just hit me.
If I am pro-choice and I chose Life, how can I chose to kill a person convicted of a crime resulting in the death penalty?
If only God gives life, only God can take that life, at God’s appropriate time.
I have yet found the scripture that says God has given Man the right to give and take life away from a human being created by God.
If I am wrong, please set me straight.
It’s all about innocence.
The Bible is clear on that.
There are a few inherent flaws in our judicial system, the death penalty is not one of them.
In my state the cost of housing, feeding, and caring for a single inmate is in excess of 200,000 per year, do you make that much? Do you keep your family sheltered, fed, and healthy for half that amount? (my gut says even less on average). I know I have raised a family of 5 for less than half that.
Add to that the undeniable fact that the individual has proven *beyond a reasonable doubt* they cannot be a productive member of society.
In order to reach death row they irrevocably changed the lives of not only their victims, but every person that ever cared for their victim, and the social environment in which their crime was committed.
It’s now that most people would add the number of abortions performed every year without ever knowing the individuals potential in relation to knowing the inmates potential but I prefer this question;
Can you name one convicted murderer who has been executed that ever killed again? I can name dozens of “lifers” who have.
It’s a simple penalty, not a deterrent. You run a red light there’s a penalty. As Maquis said, “it’s all about the innocent”
Murder, Rape, Treason, any crime of a sexual or violent nature against a minor child.
One appeal.
No pubic release of date and time.
Tile cell, one bullet.
Respectfully, here is a link to address your comment.
Also I enjoy your comments on CTH.
https://www.gotquestions.org/death-penalty.html
This was beautiful Admin. Thank you for your reflections.
The Liberal Michigan mindset has so much confidence that Michigan Democrats are trying to bring back PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE.
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?2023-SB-0681
I regard most of what happened during covid as physician-assisted homicide.
Exactly. Also it was government- incentivized and funded homicide. Hospitals got $30 to $40,000 for every deceased patient from covid. No big bonuses if patients survived.
The funding model for hospitals fails if society cultivates the conservative work ethic. Work begets healthcare which begets health which begets healthy finance which begets peace of mind which begets healthy life which begets fewer profits for hospitals.
Why is fear so common today???
Most employers no longer provide healthcare benefits or they provide minimal benefits under a group insurance plan to which the employee must contribute significant amounts from their paychecks for insurance premiums. Retail and fast food workers get little to zero healthcare benefits. The employer-provided benefit model has changed dramatically over the past several decades.
Government-funded healthcare benefits have destroyed the “free market” model of quality healthcare vs. cost since Medicare began in the 1960s and only expanded tenfold from there.
That’s an entirely seperate discussion but does answer why the government was involved at all with the covid-19 Plandemic.
But having the government financially incentivize a narrow but deadly treatment protocol plus having DOD control the vaccine production and rollout is the reason for the abuse of the citizenry and the absence of liability for the deadly poor quality of the vaccines,
Backthread, a commenter wrote about his unhappy son with bipolar issues.
In the last few years I have learned about a therapy for healing the brain, neurofeedback. Neurofeedback began as a therapy for epilepsy, but has been effective in helping people
with a wide variety of neural problems including strokes, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism, PTSD and more, without pharmaceuticals.
Neurofeedback therapy helps the brain to “see itself” and correct dysfunction. If you love someone with neurological dysfunctions, this may be of interest to you
https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/recommended-books/books/symphony-in-the-brain/
Thanks Wonder! Looks like an interesting read.
My heart goes out to anyone with young girls gone lib… but I promise you there is hope. My hubby & I have raised 6 children. Four are ours and 2 are our grandchildren. Our daughter died many years ago in the late 90s but we have been raising our granddaughter since she was born in 2003. She is now a beautiful and intelligent young lady. But there was a time, in the not so distant past, that she was a liberal mess.
2019 was the start of our family’s hell when our granddaughter hated everyone and everything and hung around with trans hateful folks. These young people are so unhappy and they don’t have a clue as to why they are unhappy. She was raised in a happy conservative household, but when covid lockdowns hit she took to her phone and never left it. We decided to take away her service and she became a monster. Her younger brother was afraid of her and I was afraid for them both.
Covid was the catalysts for our family problems and it was almost like it was in the air! Our granddaughter said she was trans but her family never changed for her and that set her off as well. We were the problem and the reason she was so unhappy…at least that is what she thought, so we all started praying for her.
Thank you dear Lord and never doubt for a minuet God doesn’t hear your prayers. We endured all this heartache for almost 4 years and one day while I was praying silently at my desk she sat down in the chair in front of my desk and started to talk to me. She sometimes didn’t like my answer but she accepted the fact that I wasn’t going to exchange my values for her love. I bought a new chair and put it in the spot where she sat and talked, and she approved. It was more inviting.
As I prayed she became more and more open and finally came to the conclusion that being trans made her unhappy. It wasn’t her and she was going to leave her friends circle.
We kept praying and still do and our granddaughter met a wonderful loving young man by the name of Isaac and they are now engaged. She is so very happy, mentally healthy, and just started a new job. She is stepping up into the world of business, from the fast food industry and the craziness she now strives to avoid.
Prayers are so needed for our young folks and something I encourage on a daily basis. God loves us. He loves all his children and we need to be there for ours. But do not change your family or your values in exchange for their approval or so-called love, because you will lose everything.
Stay strong in the Lord.
Amen.
Your message about not bending in the wind like reeds holds true for each and every one of us, as we travel through this river of time called life. Never, ever, ever – not for ANY reason – give in on your core beliefs or ideals. Both doing so and not doing so can have profound consequences, but those resulting from giving in are far, far worse for they affect not only you, but all those you know.
Whether you know it or not, people notice, observe, and catalog far more than they let on or even know themselves – even the most rebellious, ‘wandering’ young. It may not be today, or even tomorrow, but one day the seeds you plant by your actions and example will germinate. May they be life-sustaining trees with bountiful fruit, not withering patches of brambles and poisonous plants.
Hon, your words are so profound and you conveyed my message far better than I ever could. Thank you so much for your reply.
Thank you, but please don’t sell yourself short. Your shared story was an excellent and touching one – and I didn’t even touch on several extremely important messages it conveyed – of love, faith, and prayer. God Bless.
“like the circles of a Lake-the Love of our Friends, parents and neighbours leads us to the love of Country to the love of all Mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal philanthropy.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you love a child don’t try to be their friend! It’s a dirty job but somebody has to be the adult.
Amen to that.
Looks like I’m late to the party; life happens.
I’ve read the comments and did make one reply, because God said, “Yes, this one…this one…that’s you “…So, I replied.
Sundance, you are doing the work that God has assigned and I will report that so far: Job well done!
Treepers are part of my day, regardless of commenting or not, I’m here and I know that Sundance is here getting the job done right this time!
Thank you very much Sundance. You, Menagerie, Ad Rem, and anyone else I am not aware of, are appreciated in ways that words cannot express. (Please remember, God rarely renders me Speechless!).
“…late to the party…” But always appreciated!
There’s comfort in recognizing a ‘friend’ that’s posted so many times, you ‘know’ it’ll be worth the time to read.
I always read yours…
Well, I grew up listening to my mom talk about growing up during The Great Depression, so I learned a lot from her. My dad passed away when I was only 11, but I knew he was a proud Irish, Catholic democrat who loved JFK. So he would be a Trump supporter today I am sure.
I have 3 children. One has been a Trump supporter from the beginning (even before I was!). She is unvaccinated and does not allow her baby to get any vaccines she decides are not necessary. My other daughter did not pay attention to p0litics until she graduated college and moved across country for a job. She is conservative at heart and by upbringing but is surrounded by liberals and does not like President Trump. However, I suspect she knows that her mom is not stupid, or racist, or any of those things Trump supporters are accused of being. (maybe suffering a little “cognitive dissonance”?) She questions me about things and considers what I say. My son I think believes I have been brainwashed by some right-wing website.
My husband tells me not to talk about politics and ruin the holidays. But I will, just as I did back in 2019 when I told my kids the reason covid happened was to stop President Trump from being reelected. They all know that I am firm on my belief that the 2020 election was stolen. I told them they needed to come to the realization that our government is totally corrupt. I also told them to come and read here.
We have two young teens. One still homeschooled and one now in a private school.
Both could have filled the paper with their knowledge of the government on both sides in twenty minutes. It would be correct, too. They could name officials from President to many of the cabinet secretaries. The hardest thing for them would be to condense it down into something cohesive they could write in a short period of time.
You can teach your kids. I always stressed to my kids that politics is more important than being amused—that bad politicians can ruin their lives.
Start early. Get them interested in American history by letting them watch “Liberty’s Kids” videos. Play podcasts when you are with them. Let them watch PragerU videos when they are old enough. Buy Tuttle Twins books for them and watch their videos on angel.com. Explain to them how government works, what they did to President Trump, show how media bias can affect outcomes by how or even if they report on a news event.
When they want to listen to music in the car, put on a podcast. Pause it often, ask them questions, and explain things in terms that they understand. You can teach them to think and question the things they see.
You can teach them to be good citizens and the guardians of their future.
Blessings Mark.
“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.”
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
The cornerstone is Christ. The binding element is love – both yours and God’s. The other rocks are the foundational knowledge and abilities we teach them, starting with first principles and how to reason.
In cases where the house is built, don’t look upon a house destroyed by a storm as a devastating negative – but rather as a positive opportunity to rebuild, with a solid foundation. With those whom you cross paths with, you might not be able to build the entire foundation – but every rock, pebble, and binding element which makes it up counts.
My 16 year old grandson gets it. He sees all of the wokeism and speaks out about it to me, but his mother is so leftist that he doesn’t dare open his mouth around her. My son, his dad, used to be conservative, but he is more of a closet conservative anymore. I speak to my granddaughter (their daughter) in support of conservativism and she appears to agree, but she spends much time with her Mom, so she may be a chameleon. The two younger brothers are too young to get it it care yet.
I learned from my first marriage and am doing things much differently with my 13-year-old son. He has attended private, Christian schools exclusively.
When my wife recently became a little over wrought over something he neglected to do, he referenced the Bible while calmly explaining why her anger was unjustified. You kind of had to be there, but the wisdom and maturity he displayed shocked us both.
I don’t understand why people wouldn’t sacrifice everything they have to free their kids from public schools.
Hey Tango,
One word of caution; our son, (now 50), was and still is a staunch Conservative, old school Catholic. He also, was educated in Catholic schools through college (with a few years of interruption of public education). That’s just a basic background. He has taken courses of study the Bible and other religions. He is knowledgeable.
Our son would also reference the Bible scriptures as supporting arguments for some of his behavior or lack of activity when he was in disagreement to complete a task or as a participant in a family affair. Teenagers will find their way to argue their point of view, even if in the wrong. Quoting scripture for their lackadaisical behavior is not abnormal, it’s quite creative but the point is, don’t let them win the argument of child -vs- parent, when the child is in the wrong.
My kids fully understand my politics, or lack thereof, and they likewise support Trump in this good vs evil battle. That gives me some peace. But while I am not a phone worshiper (only carry a flip phone in a Faraday bag), my kids, except one, are very attached to their phones and that has always bothered me. I understand the work requirements and such, but it doesn’t end there — they are physically and mentally attached to their phones.
It is my grand kids that I worry about the most. I don’t see a lot of hope for the next generation, they seem to lack common sense and logic, they are harder to teach the truth because the schools are now designed to teach them to NOT think for themselves; just tune in to CNN, they will tell you what to think …
Battles are impossible to win if you don’t know who the enemy is.
Growing up whenever we went somewhere visiting a monument or a museum was always part of the trip, sometimes it was the point of the whole trip like visiting Gettysburg. Sometimes I loved it, and sometimes not, but I can say whether I wanted to be there or not, I learned something.
Every morning before school at the breakfast table we would take turns reading the Upper Room, followed by a prayer to start the day. Right now I am in that very cozy kitchen, sitting at the vintage formica top table next to the window that put us at tree top level, clear as blue sky day in my mind. I would help my brother read the “big” words while eating bacon and buttered toast, my favorite breakfast. Baby brother is now a proud new grandfather. Every evening one of us would bring the flag in hanging from the front door.
SD’s post brought back those memories. Thanks Sundance! At the time I never knew growing up could be so good.
Aww, for the ‘old days’. Well explained, Leave…
p.s. I hope your ‘Queen of the House’ is doing well.
Duty is ours. Consequences are up to God.
Critical thinking has been on the decline for the last 100 years. Most of us know the causes and why and a lot of words have been written about it. But, underneath it all, especially with respect to the young, is I think a feeling of powerlessness and a sense that they’ve got no skin in the game. They are isolated and isolated within peer groups when not absolutely alone. Thinking is seen as a suckers game–they are into posing, into having a sort of FB life, even if it’s on instagram, whatever. Understand that everything you say will not register with them because it doesn’t matter to them. The only way in is by figuring out what they care about and getting a spark from that. They won’t understand the game on our terms. Their context is vastly different from ours. We may be looking at the biggest generation gap ever. But I still believe in bridges. It’s just a question of ingenuity.
possibly helpful?…
[A homeschooling mom with a deep concern for historical literacy in the United States has turned her expertise into a solution—a homeschooling history curriculum that breaks the mold of the classes taught in conventional schools.]…See more:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/historian-mom-worried-about-americas-falling-historical-literacy-writes-unbiased-homeschool-curriculum-5517028
Excellent. Thank you, Teresa.
Chronos is a teaching concept that would hugely benefit public education.
I do everything on my desktop (I’m retired, so it’s doable) because I like to copy/paste and/or write things rea;;u fast (I type 80 w.p.m.) and I really can’t do on a cell phone (I have a cheap “smart phone” from Lively (the Jitterbug people). Trying to pass on the large quantities of info that I do every day (I, too, am still on FB plus I sometimes send letters out to friends via email) wouldn’t be possible (for me anyway) if I was single-finger poking around on a dinky cell phone!!
I go to TheGatewayPundit every day and also The Conservative Treehouse. I also check out TheLibertyDaily and Revolver News every day. Occasionally I’ll veer off with some longer more off-the-wall intellectual sites that are sometimes really interesting…or wherever the path for that day takes me. If I was just looking up news stories on a cell phone, I don’t think I’d ever find anything MAGA or conservative.
But most people aren’t doing what I do and they have jobs and families (my husband and I just have a dog) so I don’t know how most people ever see what they should be seeing in order to stay free or vote free 🙁
I thought I’d just throw in my two cents since Sundance said he likes to know how we operate around here 🙂
You are right about the cell phone, lol.
I also include the
Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN) which plays the traditional hymns along with solid Bible teaching and preaching.
They also have radio geared for children on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons.
CTH is my refuge from a world where the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity…Here, there is a glimmer of hope and I smile as I click and enter. Here, there is indeed a light that shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. Thank you, SD.
I’m not a mother and was the youngest in the family (sister 11 years older; brother 7 years older) so my credentials to comment on today’s children are not strong. So I will describe what it was like growing up for me and my friends. It is very sad what is happening to the young people today.
In my day, “children were seen and not heard”. However, our ears were always flapping and we could figure out “what was going on” and “what we thought about it”, always within the circle of family, relatives and friends. After school, the local kids would play on the quiet street.
The dinner table was for everyone to speak or, not. However, every evening everyone sat around to hear the ABC 7 o’clock news (radio/then tv) WITHOUT INTERRUPTION.
High school was much more serious, homework, help with the housework (not much), visitors (lots) for afternoon teas (Aunty’s superb cooking), occasionally young people’s parties in the rumpus room and go fishing in our small outboard motor boat catching flathead, bream and one time, garfish. I was the best fisherperson in that boat.
There were laughs and crying when it was time to meet young males at dances. Dad was the stern boss and Aunty (step-mum) was the sunlight. They would be horrified to come back and see our wonderful planet in such a mess and with so much hatred.
I think the No. 1 blame for the distancing of our present day young ones, is the technology to minus the mind and lean on the clever (yes) but dangerous intimate phone that never leaves the body. In the end it won’t be needed because our brains will be the phone. The disgusting money-hungry, power-hungry elite murderers who think they own us are having a wonderful time as they reach their Nirvana, making us slaves. They have told us! they have shown us! They are so high and mighty they think we will just go along with the plan. They have given us pandemics, killer jabs, drugs, climate change hoax, the rape of history, truth-obliteration, lying-a way of life, illegal teaching, etc and to top it off technology that will have us as mere insects running around doing their bidding and stumped on when finished with. Why aren’t they waiting on death row?
That is the craziest crap that I think has ever been posted at CTH!
Now try to construe the Southern Cross for Australia or geosynchronous satellites or those nice pictures from space showing the earth to be a globe.
Not to attack you personally “Mystery” but that crap you’re peddling doesn’t deserve the ones and zeros it takes to store it.
No kidding! Just when I think we’ve seen it all.
Listen, keep it civil and you can post your nonsense for anyone who wants to engage. I do not, and I absolutely will not put up with crap from you. If someone wants to debate you, then by all means debate, but you’d better gain control of that smart ass attitude or you’re in moderation, or out of here altogether.
Well, bye.
Help people learn the truth by sending them to my website – https://www.concernedcitizen.io/ – I have listed over 80 honest news sites (including this one of course 😊)
Happy to report that our three children are conservative, with the youngest (22) being most conservative as a result of heavy investment into private Catholic school/graduated Clemson with honors and just left the hospital enviro. The two older children (by marriage) are far more liberal (mother from MN – in-laws Ohio) who don’t want to invest in their children’s education or religious foundation. And not that it matters anymore as they are gave up their individual rights as part of the vaccine scam.. At any rate, the youngest is surrounded by similar thinking people by choice and reports that all of her friends (Greenville) are VERY conservative and understand what is at stake. 🙏 The flip side of that is that we occasionally get the eye roll if the convo gets too deep in the weeds of communism. Just the same it is quite important to go there, as I work in financial industry and am choking from DEI and anti bias ed along with the fact that you may no longer have an honest opinion!
p.s. Thank you CTH for providing all of us with some sanity and wisdom in the crazy times we are living, as I believe most of us never considered the reality we find ourselves in.
It’s not just government that kids don’t know about. They can’t add and subtract, or, read and write.
But I’ll bet big money they know how to put on a condom. (I’m 74 and never learned.)
And Lorrie is a rare breed indeed if she doesn’t “espouse either my personal religious or political views”.
Elect Trump in 2024. Shut down the Dept. of Eucation. Make education LOCAL.
CTH is an oasis for those who are determined to rescue America’s best future.
I have a hope that the person(s) monitoring this site – for the alphabet elite – might bravely becoming a whistle blower and stand up for “We The People”
My wife and I have raised three productive kids – and I have been a VERY tough, but fair father – in southern Chisago county MN where we have worked very hard to keep the Leftist agenda out of our schools. Yes, this is a smaller community and it is easier to access school employees and board members, but get off your butts and make an effort. You can make a difference. Do it.
My three kids have a very good understanding of what this country is about. They are young adults in professional jobs and are paying REAL taxes now. They get it. Their friends groups make Reagan look liberal. There is hope in Gen Z.
Too your “stone in a pond” example, I would add, unless someone “lib” drops a bigger one and over comes your ripple.
Tik Tok….
I was inspired over two years ago to write a fictional spiritual adventure book for the middle school crowd, delivering gospel messages and where they are the rebel heros who turn this ship around, with God’s help of course. I’m almost done, after some procrastination and personal tragedy which has delayed me. I truly hope and believe if we can reach this age group and younger, there’s hope.
I for one, generally observe the same as Oscar with some teens of my friends and in my tight neighborhood.
there does seem to be a large gender divide. Most tee boys seems to either know the commie/DEI/anti American crap, is just that, crap.
The girls that are “cool” also seem to be down with MAGA/traditionalism but more in the “truck and beer” way (awesome to me, and I am in South Carolina , though not a very “country” part) , not the knowledge/critical thinking way; which is to say they just use common sense! BUT, that’s a minority of girls, while a majority of guys.
Again , anecdotal, but most teenage girls that aren’t stereotypically “popular” seem to immediately find and e,brave all the bad communist anti American stuff. That makes sense to me: they feel like an outsider which is normal for developing teens, and they want someone to blame and the country makes sense because it’s the country’s “culture” that they feel like they don’t “fit in” with as if High School is reflective of real life, lol!
I have two sons , 8 and 10, and I take a vocal route with them. I a, the one that first exposes certain issues and I take a very concise, but linear approach that start wi5 e planning the historical or legal background to the issue, the likely ,privations of each actor and likely why, then ask a series of questions ,that, when answered with basic 10 year old logic , always seem to result in them seeing how one thing is bad to wrong (usually with comments of “you’d have to be stupid to do or think that’s a good idea/right…”) and the other right and of course aligns with common sense. Then, I leave it at that.
I recommend this approach , because I am really more teaching them how to critically think, and how to evaluate and look at issues or topics to for, and opinion or stance, rather than just telling them. That’s how, IN MY STRONG OPINION, you create strong Patriot thought warriors who go to battle when they hit the University or other liberal read, rather than be consumed by the Borg.
I for one, generally observe the same as Oscar with some teens of my friends and in my tight neighborhood.
There does seem to be a large gender divide. Most teen boys seems to either know the commie/DEI/anti American crap, is just that, crap or tune it out as disinteresting
The girls that are “cool” also seem to be down with MAGA/traditionalism but more in the “truck and beer” way (awesome to me, and I am in South Carolina , though not a very “country” part) , not the knowledge/critical thinking way; which is to say they just use common sense! BUT, that’s a minority of girls, while a majority of guys.
Again , anecdotal, but most teenage girls that aren’t stereotypically “popular” seem to immediately find and believe passionately all the bad communist anti American stuff. That makes sense to me: they feel like an outsider which is normal for developing teens, and they want someone to blame and the country makes sense because it’s the country’s “culture” that they feel like they don’t “fit in” with as if High School is reflective of real life, lol!
I have two sons , 8 and 10, and I take a vocal route with them. I am the one that first exposes certain issues and I take a very concise, but linear approach that start with explaining the historical or legal background to the issue, the likely motivations of each actor and likely why they have those motivations , then ask a series of questions ,that, when answered with basic 10 year old logic , always seem to result in them seeing how one thing is bad or wrong (usually with comments of “you’d have to be stupid to do or think that’s a good idea/right…”) and the other right and of course aligns with common sense. Then, I leave it at that.
I recommend this approach , because I am really more teaching them how to critically think, and how to evaluate and look at issues or topics to form an opinion or stance, rather than just telling them. That’s how, IN MY STRONG OPINION, you create strong Patriot thought warriors who go to battle when they hit the University or other liberal environments, rather than be consumed by the Borg.
I realized about 10 years ago that almost no young adult had an understanding of the fundamentals of our Constitutional Republic. I set out to try to remedy that in my community, at least. I took free, online Constitution classes from Hillsdale College and now offer church, homeschool and community groups “guided” classes (I’m not a certified teacher) that seem to be making a small difference in my little corner of the world. Even most parents tell me that they really didn’t understand how important our founding really was. Now we have a committed group of community members that are becoming the educated electorate our founders needed us to be. Now to apply that in real life. I come here everyday to enjoy the fellowship of this special corner of the internet and I give you all credit for giving me the confidence that I’m not alone and the bravery to face this part of our history with resilience and determination. Thank you all so much.
Excellent! And inspiring.👍🏻👏🏼🇺🇸
Ok, My wife and I raised two MAGA kids. My son is belligerently Trump and thinks the entire world is a game. He’s 21 and full of P&V so… My daughter is MAGA as well. I’ve tried to teach them to understand why they feel this way, how to stand up in a conversation and explain WHY. So far, so good.
Re: phones. They are as much of a cultural change as the locomotive, the car and air travel but, at least those things were less destructive. Cell phones, social media and all the evil they have spawned will go down as the worst inventions in human history.
I come here to read what is happening in our world today and then I read the comment to see if I am the only one who feels so helpless as we loss all
Sundance, you omit the importance of yourself in the assembly of this group. It wouldn’t happen without your effort, and it is greatly appreciated. It is true that WE are a force, but YOU are the catalyst that allows the chemical reaction to take place. Thank you.
My daughter & 3 grandsons (15, 5 & 3) have been living with me for 18 months now. I thought for sure the 15 year old wasn’t paying attention when I fussed at the radio every time he was in the car. He took a survey in school and it turns out, he’s a Conservative! This Grammy is quite proud!
Sundance is right, you have to talk about it all in front of the kids because they do listen.
For those fussing about their kids’ faces in their phones-I can relate-my daughter’s face is firmly planted and she uses their pads to calm the raging beasts. That’s when Grammy starts singing and dancing which typically gets the boys to do the same.
When you see someone, especially our adult kids, not doing what needs to be done, DO IT YOURSELF!!