I think it’s time to come to terms with the fact that we have to immunize our kids from a very negative psychological message. The president’s message is that individuals are not, in and of themselves, powerful; certainly not through their connection to any kind of God in the universe, which the president would say is sort of a superstition. I believe he’d say that. And so they’re getting a very disempowering message: “You can’t do it. People don’t build their own businesses. They need the government. You’re gonna need food stamps. You’re gonna need unemployment. You’re gonna need to stay at home until you’re 26 on your parents insurance. And you can’t decide how to use your money ‘cause we’re gonna make you buy stuff like insurance, even if you don’t want it.” How do you inoculate your children from Obama’s message? Dr. Ablow offers this three-step plan: 1) Make it plain to one’s children, certainly those who are exposed to the news, that the current president and those he has selected to govern with him are attempting to convince them that they are not powerful and cannot be trusted to make good decisions. 2) Make it plain to one’s children that the president’s belief that they are not powerful, inside themselves, as instruments of the vast power in the universe that fuels love and creativity and bravery, is completely incorrect. But that rather the power inside them selves is extremely powerful. 3) Tell one’s children that their journey in life cannot be about admiring how powerful our government is, but being thankful for how powerful their own gifts might be and serving those gifts by putting forth all the needed effort to develop them and share them. ~Alaskan Eagle III
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:35:12 +0000
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