An American Family

Here is an example of what may be the typical American middle class family. These also happen to be the children of my oldest daughter Rita. The German Shepherd on the right is JoJo who I used to sleep with before coming to Peru. This fellow is Lester who also occasionally slept with me and was my outside dog in charge of the farm. He did have some help with another good friend who was with me for about 14 years. Her name was LuLu, an American Pitbull Staffordshire Terrier. Lu had 12 pups one time, poor thing !

These children are three out of 14 grandchildren and in many respects, just like yours, I would imagine. They are posted here to remind us that they and yours represent our future and our present obligations. We have a fiduciary responsibility placed upon us by God who expects us to pass on to them the wisdom of our past generations teaching them orally and by example those values and traditions which in years past formed the underpinning of our Nation.

The dogs, each of noble character, serve as good examples of love, integrity, character, purpose, nobility, loyalty and dedication. Generally, they come into the world with these values, normally, they do not have to be taught, they were programmed by God to do their individual jobs and they do it well, not asking but little in return. We have so to learn from them, don,t you think ? Strangely though, the modern parents have turned over the education of their children to the secular State.

This explains, in part, why our country has declined to such an extent in the past 50 years or so. It used to be that education of children was the domain of the family and church, when fathers were the judicious head of the family and supervised the instruction of his children with the help of mother. The bible was read by the fireside, especially the Wisdom Books and then the lessons applied through manual labor and structured social activities. The basic documents of government, economics, science and mathematics were all lectured at home as well as in local fellowships. The secular state was excluded to the extent possible.

It is refreshing to see the advance of the home schooling movement here in the US as more and more parents realize just how corrupted our public system of education rally is and how the youngsters are being dumbed down and fed a constant supply of government propaganda preparing them for slavery. Hopefully the trend will continue as fathers, in partnership with their wives, take more responsibility as just stewards of the fruit of their loins and love making.