I grew up catholic in a secular society. All of my heroes were either rock "stars" or athletes.
Let's look at that, it's innocuous enough. I idolized Roger Staubach, Earl Campbell, The Beatles, and a few childhood friends I had.... we all wanted to be like them.
In the secular world, we grew up with heroes who had wealth, women, and wild celebracy. These people, by and large, had no business being the heroes of the day. With exception of Roger and Earl who were pious xtians, with an awesome work ethic and quiet unassuming demeanor - most all celebrities exude hautiness, criminal drug abuse, sexual indiscretion, and absolute lack of moral fiber. Yet, we as parents put these miscreants in front of our children.
We do. We allow our children to listen to sexually and violently tempered music, sit through violent and sexual television and movies, and very rarely do we demand that they put down the xbox controller.
It's no wonder children in this secular society suck as adults, look at who raised them (not the parents, but Britney Spears).
So what can we do? We can remove or greatly reduce the visual and audio media our children partake of. We can dress them appropriately. We can READ to them. We can teach them how to have RELATIONSHIPS (presuming that the parents decided to stick around long enough to prove they work). We can teach them to be RESPONSIBLE young adults by keeping our jobs, paying our bills, and not living beyond our means.
Just remember: the disrespectful, violent, immodest, immoral, drug taking, sexually deviant, uneducated, and totally irresponsible children being raised will be the ruling class in their adulthood.
Is that what you really want?
Know what is missing that I didn't mention above? G-d. If you don't teach your children about G-d, how can they ever truly be a well rounded productive life loving human being? Don't look shocked. Where do you think secular society gets its laws from? (hint: Torah) You don't have to read very far to get the first hint, the 7 Laws of Noah clearly outline humanities first set of G-ds Law.
Raise your children with G-d in mind, teach Him to them. Then remove the outside secular (spiritually negative) influence from their lives.
Want to see it at work, and see proof? Visit ANY Orthodox Jewish community. Sit at any Orthodox Shabbos Table.
Let's look at that, it's innocuous enough. I idolized Roger Staubach, Earl Campbell, The Beatles, and a few childhood friends I had.... we all wanted to be like them.
In the secular world, we grew up with heroes who had wealth, women, and wild celebracy. These people, by and large, had no business being the heroes of the day. With exception of Roger and Earl who were pious xtians, with an awesome work ethic and quiet unassuming demeanor - most all celebrities exude hautiness, criminal drug abuse, sexual indiscretion, and absolute lack of moral fiber. Yet, we as parents put these miscreants in front of our children.
We do. We allow our children to listen to sexually and violently tempered music, sit through violent and sexual television and movies, and very rarely do we demand that they put down the xbox controller.
It's no wonder children in this secular society suck as adults, look at who raised them (not the parents, but Britney Spears).
So what can we do? We can remove or greatly reduce the visual and audio media our children partake of. We can dress them appropriately. We can READ to them. We can teach them how to have RELATIONSHIPS (presuming that the parents decided to stick around long enough to prove they work). We can teach them to be RESPONSIBLE young adults by keeping our jobs, paying our bills, and not living beyond our means.
Just remember: the disrespectful, violent, immodest, immoral, drug taking, sexually deviant, uneducated, and totally irresponsible children being raised will be the ruling class in their adulthood.
Is that what you really want?
Know what is missing that I didn't mention above? G-d. If you don't teach your children about G-d, how can they ever truly be a well rounded productive life loving human being? Don't look shocked. Where do you think secular society gets its laws from? (hint: Torah) You don't have to read very far to get the first hint, the 7 Laws of Noah clearly outline humanities first set of G-ds Law.
Raise your children with G-d in mind, teach Him to them. Then remove the outside secular (spiritually negative) influence from their lives.
Want to see it at work, and see proof? Visit ANY Orthodox Jewish community. Sit at any Orthodox Shabbos Table.