The Mentoring of Our Children in a Politically Correct World

In case you are wondering why I have recently missed a week or so here and there with writing and posting my blog, it is because my husband and I are gradually moving from our temporary dwelling to our new home about two hours away. Both my husband and I are really busy. In fact, my husband will be retiring at the end of the year, so he is still working while trying to help me pack up our things for the final move. At the same time, along with packing up our household articles, I have been working with my publisher on the editing of my book on Christian mentoring, and I am presently working with my publisher on the design layout for the book. I am very excited about the publication of this book and have been working on it every minute that I am not working on packing or on writing this blog. When the book gets closer to the publication date, I will give you all more information about it. Needless to say, though, at present I am very busy, and sometimes it seems that there are just not enough hours in the day to get everything accomplished. That is why I have had to miss publishing my weekly blog once in a while.

I hope that you all will hang in there with me, though, and that you will continue to follow my blog, because I truly believe that what we learn about Christian mentoring can make all the difference in how the rest of the world perceives Christ and our Heavenly Father. I also believe that Christian mentoring is extremely important and that active mentoring can help others understand who their Savior is and can give those with whom we share the Gospel a chance to receive Christ into their heart, so they too can have an eternity of beauty and happiness with God the Father and Christ the Son.

(Remember that this blog is separated into topics so that if you do not have time to read the entire blog at one sitting that you will have easy breaking or stopping places. I hope you enjoy this one.)

Active Relational Parental Mentoring

Active Relational Christian Mentoring makes a difference in how the next generation lives and in how they perceive God and His Son, Jesus Christ. For, without the daily mentoring of our children, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, etc., this world will continually get worse from every perspective. It will get worse when our children are not being taught the truth in every area of life including the truth about our country being a Republic and not it not being a Democracy. It will get worse when our children become brainwashed with the ideas and philosophies of socialists and communists who want our country to be destroyed. It will get worse when political correctness stifles conversation and the freedom of expression. Even if we disagree with the opinions and expressions of others, our constitution gives everyone the right to express their opinions and to say what they think. It is only through parental mentoring on the truth of the Bible and the truth about historical basis of our country and what it stands for that the next generations will be able to have the same freedoms that we have enjoyed. Stifling the truth through political correctness or through what is no longer taught in schools cannot continue, if we want our nation to not disappear. That is why parents must step up to actively mentor their children in truth.

Without Active Relational Christian Mentoring our young people will be emotionally and spiritually lost. In fact, our country has already changed from the God fearing and loving country of my youth, to a country that ridicules and makes fun of those who believe in Christ. Sadly, this world and even our nation will get worse, if that is possible, because people are not being mentored in the truth of the Gospel message or mentored in loving each other as they love themselves. How do I know this? Well, the Bible tells us that there will come a time when this world will be focused on selfishness. Moreover, there will be an end to this world as we know it. In fact, here is what Jesus told the disciples would happen in the end times. Jesus said, “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.” – (Matthew 10: 21. NASB). How sad!

Why will the world get worse? It will get worse when all the values, integrity, and love dissipate. It will get worse when there is no longer a godly foundation on which people can build their lives. For, without a foundation on which to base their lives the next generation will have nothing to hold on to, and so people will start floundering around looking for things or reasons to make living their lives meaningful and worthwhile. Young people today, including people in their 40’s and 50’s, have a hole in their soul that they can’t seem to fill with drugs, philosophies, and other false religions, even though they desperately try to fill that God-shaped hole with those things and many other things as well. But, the main reason that things in this world will get worse is because parents are failing to teach their children the importance of knowing God and of remembering the great things that God has done and will still do for His children.

Passing the Knowledge of God and His Truth on to Our Children

Even back in the book of Exodus, God told the people that without parents teaching their children what they had seen and experienced with God during the Exodus, that the next generation would forget what the truth was. That is why God told Moses to urge the parents to teach their children all the truths about God. God also wanted the Israelites to recount the stories of God’s greatness to their children, so the children would not forget the wonderful things that the Lord had done for all of them. People need to be continually taught and reminded about what God has done in their lives, because people have very short memories in the long run. 

So, Moses told the people to:

“… listen carefully to these laws and regulations that I am about to teach you. Obey them so that you may live, so you may enter and occupy the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Do not add or subtract from these commands I am giving you from the Lord your God. Just obey them. …

You must obey these laws and regulations, when you arrive in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The Lord my God gave them to me to pass them on to you. If you obey them carefully, you will display your wisdom and intelligence to the surrounding nations. When they hear about these laws, they will exclaim, ‘What other nation is as wise and prudent as this!’ For what great nation has a god as near to them as the Lord our God is near to us whenever we call on Him? And what great nation has laws and regulations as fair as the body of laws that I am giving you today? …

But be very careful not to forget what you have seen the Lord do for you. Do not let these things escape your mind as long as you live! And be sure to pass them on to your children and grandchildren.”  -- (Deuteronomy 4: 1, 2, 5 – 8, 9. NLT).

God gave those of us in the United States of America a great nation, and because our nation was founded upon the truth of God we have had other nations wondering how our nation has been so wise and prudent. But, if we are not careful, we will forget what we have seen the Lord do for our nation. Unfortunately, we are allowing God’s blessings to escape our minds, because we have failed to pass them on to our children and grandchildren. Parents in the world today have forgotten to pass on the truth and the laws of God as well.

Unfortunately, when there is no foundation of truth and when people do not know God, they will fall for anything and become subservient to false ideas and false philosophies that create hopelessness and fear. Consequently, because of their ability to fall for anything, the next generation is now setting themselves up to receive the Antichrist with arms outstretched. For, the Antichrist is the greatest liar and deceiver of all. In fact, when the Antichrist comes, “this evil man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles. He will use every kind of wicked deception to fool those who are on their way to destruction because they refuse to believe the truth that would save them.”  -- (II Thessalonians 2: 8-10. NLT). Because of their hopelessness, people will quickly latch on to the Antichrist’s lies in the hopes that he has the answer to their dilemmas and that he can answer those life questions that are plaguing them and making them so lonely inside.

If we ever had any doubt about the floundering direction of the next generation or of their ability to be gullible and to fall for false ideas and beliefs, all we have to do is look at the protests and riots that occurred for many days and for even a couple of weeks in some areas after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton out to be the next president of the United States. We heard statements from the protesters like, “I am so scared!”. The young people, ages 14 to 40, were crying and demanding to have safe zones at their colleges so they could cry, receive hugs, and cuddle with puppies to make themselves feel better. But, when asked directly why they were so scared, they could not tell us, because they could not articulate their fears, ideas, or feelings. 

However, those in the gay community could articulate that they were in fear that Mr. Trump would take away their long sought after laws of protection, because the false media had put ideas in their heads that had never been articulated by president-elect Trump when he was running for office. But because they had put so much hope in president Obama and his clone, Hilary Clinton they could not imagine a nation that was still going to be free for gays. How sad, that they had put all their hope in a single human. They had fallen for many lies, because they had no foundation or godly foundation on which to stand, nor did they know the difference between falsehood and truth, or between truth and the propaganda that had been perpetrated by the news media on the unsuspecting and unknowledgeable people of these last two generations.

Signs and Symptoms of Selfishness and the “Me Generation”

Because parents, including Christian parents, have not mentored their children in the truth of the Bible, in morality, in etiquette, in common kindness and caring for others, in integrity, in respecting other people’s right to have an opinion even if it differed from their own, and in humility, our young people of the current college age generation and the upcoming high school generation have fallen for the liberal socialistic views of what has become known as the “me generation”, for their focus is on themselves and no one else. Consequently, this “me generation”, egged on by their liberal teachers and professors, feels that it is their right to protest and even to riot to get their disappointment or point across, while Christian based older generations have accepted the outcome of the election, even if they were disappointed. That is because the older generations know the history of this nation and know that our nation is a Republic and that is not a democracy of the majority or of mob rule. Sadly, most people think that our nation was built as a democracy, because they have not been taught correctly in school. Besides not having a godly foundation, many do not have an historical foundation either.

The older generations, those in their 50’s and above, are more likely to have a foundation of life based upon God and their church. But, the younger generations do not have a godly foundation, nor have they ever been deprived of anything that they wanted. Sadly, the last two younger generations believe that they can have whatever they want whenever they want it, and that if they don’t get what they want they can just throw a fit and stomp on someone else’s rights in order to get what they want. But, where did they get this idea that they deserved to get what they want no matter whose toes they step on? Well, they got it from their parents, who have given them whatever they wanted, and from their teachers, and professors who teach them that they are entitled to whatever they desire.

Instead of parents teaching their children that life is not always easy and that they must work hard to get what they want, children have grown up believing that they should automatically get a free education, for don’t most parents pay for their child’s education even when they can’t afford it? But, when parents simply cannot afford to send their child to college, shouldn’t those that still want to go to college have been taught that they simply must get a job and work while going to college? In other words, they should have been taught to not only have a work ethic, but to put themselves through college. Unfortunately, many of those that should have worked along the way to pay for their own education, simply put aside the idea of working for an education and instead they have embraced the government loans which have to be paid back shortly after graduation. Obviously, there has been a great surprise for many of those who accepted or took out the government loans. They found that they desperately need a job after graduation in order to repay those loans, and that not every graduate can get a job. Why can’t they find a job?

Many students simply cannot find their ideal job. Moreover, many other students have been surprised to learn that all educational pursuits do not automatically lend themselves to a great job upon graduation. For example, if you major in basket weaving, you might not be able to find a great job. Furthermore, some jobs are harder to obtain because too many people have majored in that particular educational area. In addition, students have discovered that their expectations to start at a salary equivalent to what their parents are now making is often unrealistic. They forgot or did not realize that their parents have spent many years working hard to reach the plateau they are on with their present salary. Thus, when some students graduate and cannot get a $75,000 to $100,000 job, but are still expected to start paying back their gargantuan student loans, their little perfect world comes crashing down. But still, it couldn’t possibly be their fault for not knowing what would ultimately come, could it?

Even though they may have chosen the wrong major, only went to classes sometimes, or partied hardy, their “me generation” views on life could not possibly be wrong. So, instead of accepting a job at a lower salary, many of these students have refused to give an inch, because they feel they deserve that larger salary. To that end, they have again simply called upon mom and dad to help them out and have gone back home to live with their parents. Some have even politicalized their selfishness and their failed work ethic to protest having to pay back their loans, saying: “It isn’t fair!” Yet they are the ones that got to spend four or five years living off the government’s or taxpayers’ money.

Why do these students have such selfish liberal views? Well, it starts at home with being given basically everything they ever wanted without having to work or appreciate what their parents were sacrificing to give them what they asked for. Then add to that the liberal education they received and they come out of college with selfish liberal worldviews. How do they get these worldviews? Well, it is because they do not question their liberal professors’ opinions and ideas. It is so much easier to just embrace their liberal professor’s socialistic or atheistic views on life and society when they do go to classes than to think for themselves. That is because studying and inquiring on their own in order to come up with the truth requires effort, and it is so much easier to just accept and gradually come to believe what the professor is telling them than to work at discovering the truth. But, if their parents had taught them the truth and had prepared their children for life by giving them a godly foundation while instilling in them a work ethic, these students would not have automatically accepted what some authority figure in charge of their grades was telling them.

God Told Parents to Teach Their Children

God knew that without parents adhering to His laws and commandments He had given them and without their reverence and love for Him that life on this earth would be extremely hard and that their children would fall away and accept false gods and beliefs. In fact, God said, “Oh that they had such a [mind and] and heart in them always [reverently] to fear Me and keep all My commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever!”  -- (Deuteronomy 5: 29. Amplified). But, many parents have not passed on God’s truth to their children. Consequently, things have not gone well for those students who have not loved the Lord and who do not keep God’s commandments. Yet, they wonder why they have a hard time in this life. But, it is simple, they do not have the godly foundation of truth on which to build their lives, so they simply believe anything that comes their way, or they believe anything that seems to be beneficial to themselves.

Many students come out of college unprepared to face the cruel world, because they were indoctrinated with the belief that the government should take care of them just like mommy and daddy had attempted to take care of them by handing out money without any expectations for their child’s personal growth. Enter Bernie Sanders for president. Bernie appealed to these liberal socialistic minded youth, because he was going to give everyone a free education or wipe out their debt by taxing the billionaires and others who he believed had made too much money. Bernie wanted a higher tax on those who made over $250,000 dollars. That is not rich in today’s economy, but it is certainly richer than those in poverty. So, Bernie wanted to take from the rich to give to the poor. That sounds good to the “me generation.”

Because many of our youth have not been taught to care about others the way they care for themselves, and because they were not taught to respect a strong work ethic; nor were they taught to have gratitude or kindness in their hearts for anyone, let alone those that started companies when they had nothing and then through hard work finally succeeded, they think only of themselves. Their idea of hard work is to get the government to just give them some of what someone else has worked so hard for. So, thinking only of themselves and without love for others, they flocked to Bernie Sanders rallies, determined to vote for him so they could get what they wanted. But Christ said “that you (i.e., we) should love one another. (Christ said,) Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.” – (John 13: 34. Amplified). Sadly, these students and graduates believe that they deserve to have their schooling paid for by the taxpayers. So, without love for others and by only thinking of themselves, they are determined all the more to get what they want.

Mentoring Responsibilities of Parents Versus the Power of Teachers

Why do our children fall for these liberal views and the socialistic words of their professors instead of thinking for themselves and determining to work out their own problems? Well, besides students' failing to question and research the truth, many parents forgot a couple of very important parental responsibilities that have also contributed to the generation of young people today who protest and riot when they don’t get their way. What are those parental responsibilities that have been neglected? First parents have not established a godly household with Christ at the center. They have not taught God’s laws or the love of God. Why? Well, it’s so much easier for many parents to sleep in on Sunday morning than to take the children to Sunday school and church. Haven’t they already put in a long week of work and don’t they deserve time to themselves?

Time spent talking with and instructing our children on every aspect of life, including their spiritual life, is the second thing that parents have forgotten do. It is so much easier for parents to spend time for themselves than to spend quality communication time with their children, which is what every child wants from the person who claims to love them. But without that communication and quality parental time, our children are not being taught right from wrong, truth from fiction, work from laziness, values from the things that are valueless, ethics including a work ethic, integrity, responsibility, kindness and care for others and how to think of others before one’s self. Consequently, we have many children and at least two generations of some college graduates who are be extremely selfish and thoughtless.

James, the brother of Jesus, said, “Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. … For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” – (James 3: 13, 14, 16-18. NASB). 

We have seen recently after the elections what disorder and evil can do to towns where young people got out and protested, because they didn’t get what they wanted. Why have our children left their jobs and classes to protest? Well, parents have not mentored or taught them about truth, love, and wisdom. Furthermore, we have even seen some adults, who should know better, write filthy graffiti on someone else’s building that disrespects our president elect. What kind of example is this supposedly upstanding citizen setting for our children and college students? Someone certainly abdicated their parental responsibilities when bringing him up. Now, he is the one setting a bad example for others, and so it goes on and on.

By abdicating our parental responsibility of sharing God with our children, of not teaching our children the important things in life like truthfulness and integrity, and by not spending time talking with our children, we have simply given our children over into the hands of the public-school teachers and college professors; many of whom have hidden agendas and are actually anxious and excited to brainwash the minds of their classroom children and our youth with ideas, beliefs, and philosophies that will change the way they perceive the world forever. These teachers and professors are teaching a totally different worldview than the one that this nation was built upon. This nation was built upon a worldview that gives God the glory and loves others as they love themselves. But, now our children are taught nothing about the true beginnings of this nation. Instead, brainwashing our children is now an accepted form of teaching, as is the inclusiveness of political correctness, which has allowed those with a worldview based upon hate to be accepted into the classroom. This means that those who hate our God, hate our country, and hate Christians and Jews are now being allowed to teach and brainwash our children under the guise of political correctness and freedom to express hate.

Who is Teaching Our Children?

Because, our society has allowed almost anyone to get a teaching degree without first checking on their beliefs and philosophies or their truthfulness and integrity, we have many teachers that are teaching radical ideas as well as their own personal philosophies to our children. In fact, in any given school district, we may only have a few good teachers mixed in with the many bad teachers who will use propaganda and personal views to permanently damage the minds of future generations. How do I know this? Well, I was a school teacher for 17 years and I saw what bad teachers did to the children’s minds. I also saw the number of bad teachers increasing throughout the years as people went into teaching simply to have a job, rather than for loving to instruct the students in truth, knowledge, and inquiry. Then as values were no longer allowed to be taught in schools, we started to see a new generation young teachers without any personal values actually teaching our children. However, in some cases the new teachers that are being allowed into the school districts simply do not have values that mesh with the values of a Christian nation.

Some of these questionable teachers are being given more and more power every day over the minds of our youth. This is because parents are not standing up for their basic rights to determine who teaches their children and to determine what the teacher is allowed to put into the minds of their children. For example, more recently the national news has reported that the school districts of San Francisco have gladly embraced a class curriculum designed by a Muslim teacher who wants to teach hate against President-elect Donald Trump under the guise of pointing out Trump’s supposed hate of Muslims and blacks (Remember, though, that it was the media that came up with this idea of Trump being a hater in the first place; the idea perpetrated by liberals in order to keep Trump from being elected president. But, Donald Trump has never said that he hated Muslims or blacks. He just said that he wanted to ban Middle eastern people, some of whom may happen to be Muslim, from coming into the United States until they can be extremely vetted and prove that they are not affiliated with ISIS and that they are not terrorists. Yes, Muslims come from the Middle East, so he used the word Muslim. But, Trump never said or even implied that he hated them. But the false media told the public that Trump was raciest.). However, this Muslim teacher has accepted the liberal media’s version rather than the truth, and she believes that Trump is a hater of blacks and Muslims. More importantly, she believes that it is her responsibility to teach the high school students that their new president elect is a hater. So, she is in essence teaching her students to hate their new president. Isn’t this the type of hate rhetoric that goes on in the Middle East against the different tribes? Isn’t this the same type of rhetoric that some terrorist groups use to persuade people to join their organizations? Why is it okay for her to teach hatred toward our president? More importantly, why are parents allowing their child to take her class?

Although this teacher’s class, that is based on a curriculum that teaches that Trump hates certain people, is an optional class for high school students, many students are excited to take her class. Furthermore, interviews of students who have been in her previous classes have shown us students who have failed to develop a tolerance for the views of others and now have specifically a lack tolerance for the views of Donald Trump and conservatives. Sadly, these students have not been taught to inquire and investigate the truth, but have instead drunk the cool-aid of her hatred and will thus go off to college spouting hatred of their president while being willing to adopt even more of the false philosophies of their liberal professors who also espouse some type of hate. Just as importantly, is the question of why parents are not standing up against this type of indoctrination? If this type of curriculum continues and then moves into other school districts throughout the nation, just think of what that will mean for future generations. For, an entire generation will not only accept socialism, but will also embrace the propaganda of their teachers, the media and others. We will then have a generation that will easily succumb to the lies of the Antichrist when he arrives on the scene, because they will not be able to distinguish between truth and the lie. What can and what should parents do in situations like this besides pray for our nation?

The Mentoring Responsibilities of Parents

Well, first and foremost, parents should actively mentor their children in understanding and inquiring into others points of view, while teaching their children about God and the truth. Then parents need to mentor their children in the willingness to accept others points of view without having to accept another person’s point of view as their own or without hating the other person for not believing the way that they do. Above all, parents need to mentor love and respect of others to their children. But, they also need to teach their children how to look up information and how to determine the truth of each issue. For, without a godly foundation of truth based upon the truth of the Word of God, there is little chance that their children will not be influenced by their teacher’s views. Obviously, there is a difference between respecting a teacher’s viewpoint and just accepting that viewpoint because the teacher is the authority figure holding grades over the heads of the students. Our children need to be taught how to search out the truth of any statement or opinion.

Only by laying a good spiritual and biblical foundation of truth, righteousness, integrity, honesty, love, and humility can parents expect their children to be able to engage in a conversation with others without being trampled upon or made fun of. Peer pressure and teacher or professor pressure causes many students to reject their parental upbringing, if the parents have not laid that foundation of respect, love and truth in their child’s life.

How do parents lay a foundation of respect, love and truth? How do parents ensure that their child will not fall for anything or will not hate those who do not believe the way that they do? Well, first parents must take their parental responsibility seriously. Parents must talk to their children everyday about what has been talked about in school or about what they have learned, especially when looking at ideas that may not be what the parents believe. Parents then have to be willing to step up and correct misconceptions by their students or through research correct information that may have erroneously been taught or left out.

Parents, must also be willing to discuss the foundation of our nation with their children, rather than just assuming that it is being taught in school. In other words, parents must be willing to actively mentor their children in all subjects that are important to the development of an honest, unselfish, truthful, citizen of the United States. More importantly, parents must mentor their children in the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Savior so that the child has every opportunity to knowledgeably and then longingly accept Christ as their personal Savior. Obviously, every person has to make that decision for themselves, but if they have not heard the Gospel message and if they have not been taught from the Bible, there is a good chance that they will personally reject the greatest gift that anyone can receive – Salvation. Instead, teach them that “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, what whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”  -- (John 3: 16. NASB). Talk to your child about eternal life and the sinfulness of humans that must be covered by the blood of Christ in order to go to heaven.

It is only when our child truly accepts Christ as their Savior, that parents can feel secure in sending their child off to college. For, it is then that we can feel that our child has Christ as his/her protector. But, parents need to do more. Early on, parents need to make sure that their children go to a church that teaches the Bible and to a church that will give their children a foundation of godly truth on which to stand when they are away from home. At home, the parents also need to live God’s truth so that their children can see how that truth is applied to their lives every day and not just on Sunday. Only then will parents know that they have done everything to give their child a firm foundation on which to stand when the winds of evil come their way, or when different ideologies and false teachings are thrown at them in college and throughout life. Christian parents know that only true salvation along with scriptural facts based upon God’s Holy Word will give their young person the truth and the ability to stand up for what they believe no matter how persuasive that atheist or liberal professor may be.

As parental mentors, parents must also be willing to be engage in the process of helping their child find a college that doesn’t just have only liberal or socialistic professors. There are many good colleges out there, but there are also many bad colleges that have a reputation for trying to change the way a student thinks and that will attempt to change what the student believes. Those colleges want their graduates to regurgitate their professors and the political correctness police’s ideologies, biases, and radical thinking. They do not believe in inquiry or in student's learning the truth, but only in graduating them with the ideas and beliefs that the liberal college espouses. Parents should not support these types of colleges by giving money or by sending their child there. In fact, parents need to check into the philosophy of the college’s leaders or administration, because in many cases a parent could be sending their child off into the lion’s den. Your child could be eaten alive with liberal socialist views that go against the truth of God’s Word. So, it is important to know what these scholastic lions believe and if they will try to influence your child to believe what they do. Parents must be careful to give their educational money to only those colleges that actually teach and inquire about the the truth.

Although, your students will be out on their own when they go to college, it doesn’t mean that your parenting is over. In fact, if you care about your child, you will always be a parent mentor, but you will just parent in a more subtle and adult way. I am retired, but my mother still parents occasionally when she thinks that I need some information that I may have missed along the way. I know that she loves me and only wants what is best for me, so I listen even if I don’t always agree. But that is what being a parent is all about. It is showing our children that we care, that we are there for them, that they can use us as an excuse to get out questionable situations, that they can ask our opinion even though they may not take our opinion. But most of all, we are to teach them that they must respect the opinions of others even when they know or believe that the other person is wrong. For, they are to love others as they love themselves. Moreover, we are to teach them that they do not have to be scared, because God will always be there to guide and protect them if they lean on Him and their Savior, Jesus Christ.

If you are a new parent or even if you have high school age children, it is not too late to communicate with your children and teach them to think for themselves. It is never too late to teach them about God and the truth of His Word. It is never too late to share the Gospel message if they have not yet accepted Christ’s gift of Salvation. Remember, too, that if you have laid a firm foundation of values, ethics, truth, love, integrity and humility that your child will return to those ways even if they deviate in their early adult life. For the Bible tells us that we are to “Teach y[our] children to choose the right path, and when they are older, they will remain upon it.”  -- (Proverbs 22: 6. NLT). But, we cannot abdicate the responsibility of teaching our children the right path. For, if we do, we will have children who will fall for anything.  My dad once told me that it is important to have a good foundation of truth and to know what and why we stand for something. For, if we don’t have that foundation and if we don’t stand on that foundation, we will fall for anything. So, become an active relational Christian parental mentor and teach your children about God, His Son, Jesus Christ, and the truth. Then you can rest assured that your child will know the truth and will not be swayed by false beliefs and ideologies that will hurt them in the long run. We can make a difference in our nation one person or child at a time. You can do it! You can be that Active Relational Christian Mentor who helps another person become all that they can be for the Lord, for themselves, and for their family.