Should We Teach Kids To Love Their Country?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Happy 4th of July! How are you and your family celebrating Independence Day? In today’s culture, it’s become controversial to love and celebrate the United States. But should that stop us from teaching our kids about Independence Day and American history? In this episode, Brett and Erin discuss why we need to teach kids about their country and some practical tools to help you accomplish that.
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Thomas Jefferson and Equality: Making America
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President Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address
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John Adams - Writing the Declaration of Independence
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His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
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This was so helpful! Appreciate the resources, I made a Notes page on my phone. (And I added a 4th of July Fruit Pizza too ;)
Ooh, tell us more about that Fruit Pizza!?!
We actually somewhat covered this with the kids reading the Tuttle Twins today.
Im so glad I havd been a faithful subscriber to your ministry together with you as a couple..You both really impact me hoe to raise godly children in thr home. I still wonder why youre not reaching a bigger impact on RUclips but for those who do tune in to your channel its a blessing. 😊
Thank you for such kind words Paul! Thank you for being a faithful listener for 4 years!!!
The way I see it, there are essentially three ways that we can respond to any given element or artefact of our culture:
1. Celebrate/embrace
2. Critique/reject
3. Redeem/transform
If we are discerning, in which approach we take when, within the context of a humble gratitude for the place in which God has placed us, then I think we can have a much better conversation about culture, then the bland, overly-simplistic “my country is the best/worst in the world” nonsense that we often hear.
Those are helpful categories!
There's nothing wrong with loving one's country, however love of one's country has been exploited by authoritarians in the past, case in point imperial Japan.
Sure, teach them to love USA. But also to realize that there are many countries that are as good or better depending on your metric. But please teach them to stay out of American nationalist MAGA madness that has taken over evangelicalism.