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Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids
As a journalist, television news producer, writer, and editor, Marcia Segelstein has spent decades reporting on family-related issues. Her work has brought her face-to-face with troubling shifts in our culture away from Christian values - and the impact these trends are having on our children. As a mother, Marcia recognizes that these are more than news stories: they are a personal battle. And this is a battle every Christian parent today must be equipped to fight.
In Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids, Marcia shows us how today's parents need to be different - and why. She coaches parents to lead their children with confidence and authority, eyes wide open to the pitfalls and dangers that surround them, whether in the media, in school, or among their peers.
It's not too late to raise Christian kids. It's this simple: Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids. Armed with the information provided in this book, you can start today.
In Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids, Marcia shows us how today's parents need to be different - and why. She coaches parents to lead their children with confidence and authority, eyes wide open to the pitfalls and dangers that surround them, whether in the media, in school, or among their peers.
It's not too late to raise Christian kids. It's this simple: Don't Let the Culture Raise Your Kids. Armed with the information provided in this book, you can start today.
- GenresParenting
144 pages, Paperback
Published April 11, 2019
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April 22, 2019
I love the concept and overarching goal of this book. Segelstein does an incredible job of demonstrating, from studies and various anecdotes, that the influence of parents over their children tends to be limited in our current society. As the influence of parents decreases, the influence of the culture increases. Through the book, Segelstein highlights five major cultural influences (school, media, sex, pornography, and consumerism), shows the impact these influences have on our children, and highlights ways that parents can take back the role as influencers in a positive way.
Overall, I think that the book is a good starting point for parents who want to raise their children in a countercultural way (as my husband and I do with our little two month old). The first chapter, "The Critical Role of Parents" is an amazing reframing of what it means to be a parent, a welcome shift from the modern approach. The chapter on the media is a hugely important wake up call for our media dependant culture--especially when connected to the later chapter on pornography, an issue which I believe parents need to be extremely aware.
However, I have one major complaint. The chapter on schools (Chapter 2) was disappointing and, to be honest, almost made me give up on the book entirely. There's a lot to be said about the influence of schools: secularism, scientism, materialism, etc. of the curriculum, teachers, administration, peers, etc. However, the chapter focused solely on the topics of sex education (which was a topic Segelstein repeated in the chapter on sex) and gender identity issues. Which, don't get me wrong, these are important topics for us to be discussing. However, these topics were not presented in a constructive way, but rather in a way that felt like an incendiary laundry list of worst case scenarios. I would recommend reading chapter two with a grain of salt--taking from it what's positive, and knowing that later chapters are more useful and satisfying.
Overall, I think that the book is a good starting point for parents who want to raise their children in a countercultural way (as my husband and I do with our little two month old). The first chapter, "The Critical Role of Parents" is an amazing reframing of what it means to be a parent, a welcome shift from the modern approach. The chapter on the media is a hugely important wake up call for our media dependant culture--especially when connected to the later chapter on pornography, an issue which I believe parents need to be extremely aware.
However, I have one major complaint. The chapter on schools (Chapter 2) was disappointing and, to be honest, almost made me give up on the book entirely. There's a lot to be said about the influence of schools: secularism, scientism, materialism, etc. of the curriculum, teachers, administration, peers, etc. However, the chapter focused solely on the topics of sex education (which was a topic Segelstein repeated in the chapter on sex) and gender identity issues. Which, don't get me wrong, these are important topics for us to be discussing. However, these topics were not presented in a constructive way, but rather in a way that felt like an incendiary laundry list of worst case scenarios. I would recommend reading chapter two with a grain of salt--taking from it what's positive, and knowing that later chapters are more useful and satisfying.
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