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Preparing Your Sons and Daughters, by Chuck Holton
There is a crisis of manhood in America today. The numbers are astounding: One in three children live in fatherless homes. Since 2011, women receive more college degrees than men. And recent decrees by the Obama administration will now see our wars being fought by women and homosexuals – it’s enough to make a guy like me be glad I won’t be around to see what this country looks like fifty years from now, and get a knot in my gut knowing that my children most likely will. It makes me realize that my sons will need the skills to survive even more than I.
If you think like I do – that wisdom is more important than knowledge, and see very little of either coming out of America’s universities;
If you shake your head at today’s youth shuffling around the mall, looking like tattooed and pierced zombies-in-training;
If it disgusts you that the average 34-year-old American male spends more time playing video games than the average 12-year-old boy;
and If you remember a time when a male of eighteen was considered a man, and expected to work like one, and you lament that so many of today’s high-school grads…aren’t and don’t;
This article is meant to bring you hope.
With three sons of my own, I take the issue of raising Godly sons as seriously as my spiritual walk, my marriage or my business. If you have sons, you probably feel the same way. If you are blessed with daughters, I hope you are fervently praying for them to find true men who will be able to give them what they truly need – provision, protection, affection and direction.
We do everything we can as a family to be prepared for an uncertain future, from stocking the larder to making firearms training a regular family event. To that end, we homeschool our children, because as Ayn Rand wrote in Atlas Shrugged,
“I would not surrender them to the educational systems devised to stunt a child’s brain, to chaos with which he’s unable to deal, and thus reduce him to a state of chronic terror.”
If you aren’t sure what I mean, just google “pop tart pistol.”
Sometimes I feel like the world’s worst prepper. I am a videographer by profession, something that will be as useless as paper money in a post-collapse world. I never hunted as a kid, and can only wish someone would have made me join the Boy Scouts. But we all have to start where we are and work with what we’ve got.
I had no say in my upbringing, but I can control that of my children. And with a farm to manage and perhaps protect someday, I’ve decided to invest my time and energy into ensuring my children have what they need in terms of survival knowhow, even if that means they have skills that I don’t.
As our kids get closer to completing their high school curriculum, we’ve had many family discussions about their best options for continuing their training and education.
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