The 15 Things Kids Need

The secular culture has no trouble spewing out a list of what children need these days. Unfortunately, their list is totally wrong. 

There are constantly reports in the news these days of school district administrators, public school teachers, and teachers’ unions using school time and union dues to advance political activism at the expense of math and reading lessons. 

Here, here, and here are just three examples of the hundreds of times adults who are supposed to care for students’ academic needs, instead cared more about indoctrinating or using them for political purposes.

Too Many in the Educational System Have It All Wrong

Kids are being taught by the warped minds of some of the adults who have authority over them that getting involved in progressive politics must be their priority. They are told to trust their purple-haired teachers who “express their pronouns” more than their straight-laced parents. The conventional concepts their parents would like to get across – getting married, building a large family, practicing their faith – are irrelevant, if not downright wrong, in the depraved beliefs of much of the educational system.

The world believes traditional values and beliefs are at best outdated and at worst evil. Too many schools similarly agree. They fail to put the fundamentals of reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic education at the top of the list of what their students need most. Propagandizing school principals and teachers will instead focus on a list that highlights erroneous and reckless goals and concepts such as:

• Kids need to get involved in political and social justice issues, such as the recent anti-ICE protests;
• Kids need to be rightly scared about so-called climate change;
• Kids need to be all-in on the so-called LGBTQIA+ agenda.

Here Are What Kids Truly Need

The culture and the educational system have it all wrong. Kids don’t need any of the things on the three bullet points above. Schools only need to provide instruction on educational basics and study skills.

Then after that, what youngsters need are the following 15 items and actions, none of which need the involvement of a teacher, a union, or a school district administration:

1. Kids need a stable family, with a mom and dad both living in the house and working together on the same page. 

2. Kids need non-tech toys, including a bicycle, a basketball and hoop, a jump rope, and sidewalk chalk. 

3. Kids need to learn from dad how to set off fireworks, build an outdoor fire pit, and mow the lawn.

4. Kids need to learn from mom how to sew a button, bake cookies, and wisely shop for groceries. 

5. Kids need to understand that tolerance, inclusion, and diversity are not virtues, but prudence, fortitude, and temperance are. 

7. Kids need a scheduled dinner time where the entire family sits down together to say grace, eat home-cooked food, and converse without a cell phone in sight. 

6. Kids need a church to attend weekly and faith formation to receive either from a Sunday School class or a Catholic school.

8. Kids need to spend Sundays doing nothing but going to Mass, enjoying leisure time, and hopefully gathering for supper with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

9. Kids need tangible books, coloring books, and books read to them at bedtime by mom and dad.

10. Kids need to spend their summers learning how to swim, “camping” in their backyard at night, and making smores.

11. Kids need to spend their winters learning how to ice skate, getting in snowball fights, and decorating the family Christmas tree.

12. Kids need discipline from parents who establish and enforce consequences.

13. Kids need chores when young like setting the table and chores when older like vacuuming the car. 

14. Kids need to earn money for the pricey or extra items they want by: a) performing parent-created, “paying” jobs around the house when young; b) progressing in middle school to working jobs outside the family like neighborhood lawn mowing or babysitting; c) once in high school getting a real job with a paycheck.

15. Kids need a school that recognizes their parents as their authority, God as their “superintendent,” and the Bible as their fundamental textbook. 

Kids Need Counter-Cultural Parents

The secular culture wants to mold children in the image of mini social justice warriors. Much of the educational systems want to propagandize students about immoral and anti-Christian beliefs or the need to walk-out of school in political protest.

The authentic family wants to simply stick to the basics by making sure children have family, faith, and traditional, old-fashioned fun.