SACRIFICING OUR CHILDREN
 
I am so upset right now.  I was just making dinner while listening to Focus on the Family.  They were having a "town hall meeting" in Kentucky where participants were asking questions of Dr. Walt Larimore and another expert whose name I cannot recall.  A man stood up and asked for wisdom concerning his six year old daughter who apparently will be entering public school this fall.  This father was concerned about the homosexual propoganda that his daughter would be exposed to and he was asking for advice about what he could do to protect and prepare his daughter.  The answer he received made me so upset.  The so called "expert" basically said that the fact that his daughter would be exposed to this ungodly information was inevitable and the only thing he could do would be to help his daughter learn the truth and make sure she respected the teacher even if she didn't agree with him/her.  He also added that you couldn't expect the daughter to stand up to the teacher when she was six but maybe when she got to high school or college she'd be better prepared!!!???  So let us look at this situation logically.  This man's daughter is six and is just about to enter a classroom with 20 or so of her peers from different families and religious backgrounds.  She may not be a believer in Christ and if she is she is not well grounded yet at all in her faith.  Children her age are very influencable (sorry if that's not a word!).  Now let's look at the amount of time she spends at home and at school with her classmates and her teachers.  Each day she would leave at 7 am or so and return around 2:30 or 3 pm if she lives where I live.  That is about 8 hours per day.  At the end of five days that adds up to 40 hours.  If she goes to bed around 8 or 9 pm at night that means she spends 5 or 6 hours a day with her family but the best of her day and attention is spent at school.  Plus the hours after school and at night are probably not spent in intensive religious instruction with her parents.  She's probably going to piano lessons or soccer practice and doing homework or playing with her friends.  So the best part of her day where she receives most of her instruction is at a government school where her teachers are not allowed to teach from the Bible or mention Jesus Christ.  She is also being influenced by her peer group who may or may not be Christians all in the name of being properly socialized.  Therefore, I propose that but for the grace of God and extreme diligence of the parents, this daughter will not be able to properly defend her views if she even knows them well enough by the time she enters high school or college.  Most likely this daughter will be an encultured young woman who looks more like the world than anything else.
 
This so called expert gave the wrong answer and the wimpy answer.  He should have told this father to grab his daughter and take her away from the godless government school system and either put her in a Christian school or even better, start homeschooling her.  This way she would be grounded in the faith of her father and not continually get mixed messages from her father.  On the one hand he wants to ground her in the faith but every day when his daughter gets home from school he and his wife have to correct what she is learning so it comes from a biblical worldview.  AND that assumes the parents are aware of everything she is learning NOT to mention the attitudes she's getting from her friends and classmates at school.  Please tell me how this qualifies as training our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord??