Whatever Happened?

What happened to a child’s universe being its home, then expanding into the surrounding community, local schools, and churches? What has happened when the parents relinquish their skills of raising and controlling the child and reduced the influence of the home? A change occurred, and not for the better. Larger schools and school boards that are no longer community based have replaced the one room school houses and built mega-structures that herd our children through their lessons, paying more attention on indoctrination than to education.

A child’s universe was once very isolated and close to home. Children’s morals were learned in the home taught by family, clergy, teachers, and neighbors. That reflected a time when we knew our neighbors, we chose our teachers, and we decided on which church to attend. Then world expanded as a child aged, but they had a solid foundation upon which to stand and raise their own families.

Things have changed. More and more worldly influences have become the base of morals and examples for them to follow. Single parent homes have become the norm. A child’s life’s now are pulled into a much larger world, first by the radio. Then it was by television, computers, smart phones, and the internet. Our children’s examples for morality have become decidedly much worldlier.

Increasingly, those teaching our children lead them astray into secular views. The taint of following progressive liberal views is that there’s no set absolutes, no anchors to which children may cling, and no boundaries set. Kids are advised to “follow their hearts.” There’s no longer anything right or wrong; everything’s relative. People paraded before our children are presented as icons and heroes, but many only promote casual sex, drugs, and violence without the child seeing the outcome.

I understand it’s necessary for children to escape the limitations of a one room schoolhouse to keep abreast of technology, but as parents we cannot abandon our children’s innocence to be slain on the altar of the world. Children in the past have learned much more with the smaller classes. Latin, Greek, math, and yes, even the Bible were taught. There wasn’t time or need to teach how to place a condom on a banana. It was the families who selected the curriculum and teachers, not a government imposed choice of text books or new methods like teaching the burdensome and confusing path of “common core math.”

On top of that, the government steals the same money they give schools to educate our children by forcing the schools to follow “regulations,” keep records, and show compliance. When our children lose a solid local foundation, they’re compelled to adopt a more worldly view.