Advice to Parents on How to Build Better Children

Most teachers only teach students one side of issues, and most teachers are liberal, so the simple fact is that most of your students will only ever learn in school the liberal view on important issues like global warming, healthcare, teacher pay, the role of government, wars (like Iraq or Vietnam), multiculturalism, homosexuality, or thousands of other issues that are important in today's society. If you have a child going through school, either first grade or college, they are going to be forced to read books, watch movies, and listen to lectures that by sheer volume of information and time will wear down your student's resistance to liberal views and weaken their innate human yearning for freedom and liberty.

So, what do you do about it? Combating each issue one at a time is probably not the best solution. There are books, movies, and media out there for students that could help educate them on conservative views, and by all means encourage your child to explore these and bring balance to their education. But again, the sheer volume of liberalism that is going to be thrown at them through all of their education is going to mean that your child will have to read a heck of a lot to achieve some sort of balance in their education.

And don't look to conservative teachers like me to provide balance. My classroom is balanced, which means I provide both liberal and conservative views, and challenge students to think and arrive at their own conclusions. I play devils-advocate and try hard to achieve a balance in my classroom, and so do many other conservative teachers. They are not going to balance with their balanced classrooms all the unbalanced liberal teachers filling your children's heads.

Liberal teachers believe in their hearts that children already know the conservative arguments, they feel that the conservative view is being presented at home, that parents are teaching their children that global warming is not man-made, that gun-ownership is a protected right, that it is okay to be heterosexual, that religion is a good thing and worshipping God is okay, that sometimes you do need to fight back against bad guys, etc. Liberal teachers expect you to be spending all your time with your child teaching these views, showing them movies, talking to them, reading to them, etc. And so they seek to bring 'balance' to the student's home life by only presenting progressive liberal views of the world.

But you're not spending all your time indoctrinating your children, are you? And to be perfectly honest, you are not as good at indoctrination as a teacher is- we get Master degrees in indoctrination or teaching or something. And we get resources that you might not get- video's like An Inconvenient Truth, books like Johnny Has Two Daddy's, or speakers like the guy who said it was okay to have sex before marriage.

So, what do you do? My advice to parents on how to build better children, the kind that can withstand all of the liberal indoctrination that is thrown at them and grow up to be strong healthy happy people is to always ask questions. Get your kids thinking. If they make a statement or reflect back some liberal teacher's belief, question it. These kids want to question authority, and they are more likely to question you before they question their teachers, so don't preach at them- instead, ask them how, why, what, or when?

When your children come home and tell you that sprawl is bad, ask them what sprawl is, why it is bad, what makes it bad, if their house in suburbs with the big lawn is sprawl, etc. If your child comes home and says that he doesn't think he wants to go to church any more, ask him what he thinks God thinks about that, where does he think he is going to get his morals and views from now, etc. If your child says that you need to not support the troops because our soldiers are killing innocent people around the world, ask them what makes a person bad and what makes a person good and which ones our troops are, ask them questions.

Teach your children to think critically. Teach them to question authority. Teach them to boldly believe and boldly trust in themselves. And encourage your students to seek information from everywhere and get all sides of the story before making judgements. And they will be better people because of this.