DC: A few months back, I experienced what a friend of mine and many libertarians and conservative parents say they have experienced: My teenagers started spouting leftist platitudes. Being combative and sarcastic by nature (since all Cubans are born with a sharp tongue), we all ended up angry and frustrated.
Upon subsequent calm reflection, I realized I had accomplished nothing. And so I tried another approach. To my complete surprise, there was a 180-degree turnaround in the teens’ views.
I would now like to share the tactics I used and give the following advice to those who are at wit’s end.
First, realize that it’s traditional for teenagers to contradict their parents’ opinions, which for millennia has led to mutual rancor. So, don’t get angry or sarcastic. Reacting with anger or sarcasm will only result in hardening their viewpoints instead of making their views fluid and changeable. more
Validation of being worthy of having an opinion and allowing it to be said without loud snorts works better than and “you don’t know anything cuz you’re so young.”
Talking to them them as person works as long as clearly defined areas of respect are established. We also share movies and TV shows (Big Brother is a good one to get an analysis of others behaviors from their point of view).
Took little Ms. Hans out car shopping yesterday and it worked well as she knew what she needed and what we could afford (most of the down payment came from her bank account – but we took on the payments for her – and she starts her first job on Tuesday.)
How about ask the child if they’d like to have the home run as a socialist utopia. Then you pull him or her out of school, put them to work at hard labor and arrange youngster’s employer to have all the snow flakes after tax income deposited in an account you own. At the end of the month you take whatever is in that account and distribute it among the other family members. Do the same with your income, only make sure there is very little left at the end of the month of your own income to be distributed (put a health portion in retirement savings or medical savings account).
Or, since Libtards believe in abortion through the 85th trimester, just off the unpleasant and inconvenient little jerk! After all, “your body, your life!” You can’t be expected to bear the burden of raising children when it’s not convenient and pleasant, for you.
My kid is n his 20’s, and for the most part sensible.when he gets snotty or wants to pull a bonehead move, I just tell him I did that at his age and, I’m not going to tell him what the consequences were…
Drives him nuts for some reason. Lol.
His argument then becomes about me being a negligent parent instead of about me trying to parent him. I then laugh a lot.
The writer’s ideas are good, and if implemented
in time there’s good reason to be hopeful.
But if they’re too far gone, send ’em to China.
You know, the ol’ youth-in-Asia cure.
So far, I feel confident in my little conservatives. It was easy to do, point out all the stupid shit lefties and progs do, then laugh at them. My kids spot fat hairy feminists before I do, then we giggle our bellies sore at the beast. They know all to well how to spot an SJW as well as dirty hippies and hipster faggots.
I guess locking them in their room with no internet, 1 hr of TV a day is not acceptable?
How I survived indoctrination…
Range time… Give them a .22LR rifle, and start teaching them to shoot while they’re learning to read. They’ll never turn their back on the rifle they’ve owned since they were a child, or the rights that secure it.
Like the saying goes: Hire them young while they still know everything.
My kids have known since an early age that Papa flies helicopters for Pinochet Airways.
So far so good.
1. move to Germany
2. cut their heads off
3. yell, “Aloha Snackbar!”
… I hear that works …
Just tell the kid that we killed
some hundreds of thousands of commies
since 1950 and we ain’t done yet.
Since she’s Cuban ancestry add in
the true story about Castro and his
murdering dog, Che.
Lazlo prefers the Mark Twain method for rearing boys.
Nail them in a barrel and feed them through the bunghole
When they hit seventeen, plug up the bunghole
My son was always relatively conservative considering he went to school in Seattle, although he did go through the “there is no such thing as evil” stage.
Today he is so conservative he makes the John Birch Society look like a communist front.
First you have to know your teenager’s character. Some teens are thinkers who are pursuaded by conservative media – Easy Peasy. However, there are the “stinkers”. Teens who only learn by experience. They’re the ones you take away privileges.
If they think socialism is so great, let them experience living like a citizen of a communist country for two weeks. Repeat the doctrine of communist dictators every time they complain. That should do it.
Now this works best with teens under 18. After 18 they’re more stuborn and legally adults. All you can do is hope they come to their senses one day.
BTW, make sure you have a good relationship with your teen before trying this, so they won’t call social services on you.
Hey All,
Was away but back now!
This was embedded in the article and this should be watched by ALL in the Family, the personal and the IOTW…
I had never seen this before and I watched about four times so far…
THIS IS A MUST:
Black Dude with a Trump Hat knows what time it is…
He has too many greats lines, can’t cue up just one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxcAN0t6GrI&feature=em-share_video_user
Make sure you watch the one with the ‘hispanics’ link as well.
My troops are getting there in age, but my counter tactical support measures (religion/values, history, family, etc..), that I HOPE, acts as a forearm shield against a liberal teaching aka indoctrination via school and media.
So far so good…
MAGA2016
KAG2020
Ok. As a guy that has worked directly with several 16-20 year olds i’m here to tell ya, that the future isn’t so dim with this generation. The vast majority get it. They want a car, a job, and to live on their own. They WANT to be productive. They WANT to be independent. Trust me on this. Leftism will be squelched with this age group as they grow older. Mark my words. The vast majority of these kids get it. Tell me otherwise…