If you look at babies in a room, they all just interact with each other. The same thing goes for adolescent children in school. For anyone over the age of 50, I’m sure you remember your days in grade school. What are some of your memories that stood out from Kindergarten to Eighth grade?

Do you remember how students would celebrate each holiday? When someone had a birthday, they would bring in cupcakes for the class. Can’t do that now in school. 

Everyone loved Halloween. It was the best. The majority of the kids dressed up in costumes and there was a parade around the block. Can’t do that now in school.

And what about Christmas? There were Christmas plays and we were allowed to call the trees Christmas trees. Can’t do that now in school.

Things were simpler and kids just played with other kids. There were disagreements and tussles, but things were worked out.

Simple academics, such as reading, writing and arithmetic, were taught because they were the basics that were needed. As you moved up to different levels in grade school, more subjects were taught.

If you notice, we are concentrating on academics. The point is what is taking place in some grade schools for students around the ages 5 or 6 years old until around the ages of 11-13 years old. 

Now, academics seem to be taking a back seat. You see, kids are more tolerant than some adults give them credit for. 

There is a song from the play and movie adaptation of “South Pacific,” You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught, with lyrics written by Richard Rodgers:

You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late

Before you are six or seven or eight

To hate all the people your relatives hate

You’ve got to be carefully taught

It seems now that adults are pushing their insecurities on children in our schools, even without the parents knowledge about it.

Personally, we feel this is wrong.

In elementary school, I don’t remember any of my teachers talking politics in the early grades (K-4). We weren’t taught the physical changes of puberty until around the ages of 12-13 years old. Sex education was given at ages 13-14 years. One of the reasons for this is to help prevent teen pregnancy.

What is going on that now is that we are trying to put sexual identification on young children who don’t have a clue and really don’t need a clue at that part of their life. 

There’s a lot of growing up still ahead in a ten-year-old’s life. He or she does not need anymore pressure than they are subject to in this fast paced world. Just listen to them before you make a decision for them that you both may regret later on down the road.

Some celebrities don’t even assign a gender to their babies and just have them identified as “them” so that child can decide on his or her own what gender they want to be. 

THIS IS RIDICULOUS! As we said in the beginning, let kids be kids. That is one of the main things that’s wrong today.

We don’t know why this is happening, but sometimes you need to take a step back and learn from the past.

C.M. & K.M.