November 13, 2007 journal, modern America is wasting its children as so perfectly clear expressed by Ben Graydon from his recent exposure to wild children's behavior in public. "Socialized Parents, Anti-social Children. Kids running & screaming. Doors slamming. Pounding on walls. Thumps and thuds. I am at a hotel; good luck getting to sleep. Finally, lights out. Then, outside my door, a voice. A woman. Talking away on the phone at full volume like she's standing in her kitchen, shouting over the vacuum cleaner. Argh! I get up, open the door, make eye contact. Her eyebrows go up, her mouth into an O. She falls silent. I step back inside and shut the door behind me. She immediately resumes talking as if I were not there. The kids return and pick up where they left off. No sleep. Next night: All quiet. The kids are off at their activity, I presume. Lights out for me. Head on pillow. Eyes close. Sleep ... not! The kids are back. Louder than before. Screaming. Running. Jumping. Pounding. Beating on doors. It subsides a little. Maybe they've gone away. Not. Still there. Try to sleep. No can do. I get up. Slip on pants. Open door. Kids run like closet cockroaches when the light goes on. I announce: "THIS IS A HOTEL! PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP! GET INSIDE AND SHUT UP OR I'M CALLING THE COPS! NOW!" I shut the door. Other doors slam shut. I lay back down. The noise level drops like a twisted radio volume dial. I fall asleep. Finally. Next morning I'm loading the car to go to my conference. I see a woman in the parking lot glaring at me like I'm a leper. One of the group's sponsors, no doubt. Where was she last night? AWOL. I walk to the hotel lobby to partake of its continental breakfast. It is early, but the breakfast area is already full of the urchins. Standing in the way. Blocking the seating area. Filling their faces with Fruit Loops and sugary muffins. There are a couple of adults here. Maybe there is hope. No, the adults are just as foolish. A middle age man is showing one mentally-challenged youngster how to use a handshake buzzer. The kid, giggling wildly, greets every person coming through the door with the adolescent gag toy. Then his dad appears, sporting a Dutch boy haircut and a medicine-ball belly. He, too, laughs at his boy's antics. Explains a lot. Did I mention that the buses the kids came in on are church buses? These kids are the best and the brightest. They are "the hope of our future" ... or so we are told in countless institutions. They are going through that critically important rite of passage - socialization. And somewhere this morning, at least one woman is very upset with me that last night I terrorized some children while they were just having some innocent fun. Kids will be kids, you know. Right? Wrong. No, thank you, my children will not be so socialized. Not only would they never act that way - they've been raised better (or, should I say, they've been raised, period) - they would be disgusted, if not horrified, at such behaviors. If anything, they would wonder why I would even bring them into proximity with these foolish children. Oh, my children are not perfect. But, as I explained to my law professor friend at the conference, the biggest issue that I have to deal with with my children in public is to make sure that they all stay heads-up when we are grocery shopping so that our larger-than-average family does not block the aisle in front of someone else who is passing through. So, where are these parents? What are they thinking? Not only the ones who are supposed to be in charge during trips like this, but the ones who unquestioningly consent to sending their children along. This was the same question that concerned me when I was still teaching school, before I became a parent. Even most Christian parents are far too willing to turn their children over to someone else - some outside institution foreign to the home, the institution ordained by God - to raise for them, in loco parentis. But those institutions, which are many - and which stand to gain in power and money every time parents acquiesce - teach such parental abdication as sacrosanct doctrine, and most parents just go along unthinkingly because it is what they are familiar with and because it presents the path of least resistance. This is the result of socialization-the socialization of the parents. It is not the result of adherence to scripture. It is not the result of adherence to any other truth. It is not the result of concern about the heath and best interests of children. It is the result of the influence of those whose success depends upon the complete and total breakdown of society, starting with the home. Even I am a victim of that influence. Even my solution last night involved invocation of the threat of police interference - a government response of force. But that, too, is by design. When whole segments of society are removed from the general population and incarcerated because of unlicensed entrepreneurial activities, it leaves only one solution - more government. When "food" becomes something designed just to energize and keep alive rather than nourish, and when kids are hooked on artificial flavors, sweeteners and other chemicals, government is to blame. Ditto the pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines most children are filled with by government edict. And when the church is reduced to a government-approved institution made necessary in a particular format only to be able to effectively interface with government, God's designs for solutions are neutered. But we can stop this wrong-way train: one family at a time. Join me, please. Copyright (c)2007, Ben Graydon. 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