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originally posted by: jimmyx
how about trying to teach them at an early age how to get along, without trying to bring misery onto others. how about trying to work things out among the (supposed) adults to show our kids it can be done. how about trying to trust each other by compromising for the betterment of those around you.....
in the west, most of our children already have shelter, food, water....why can't we build from there, instead of starting from the bottom again living like barbarians....look at the middle east, is that how you want to live?....is that the destiny you want your kids to have for the next thousand years?
originally posted by: awakendhybrid
When my son was born I used to have all these pictures in my head of having to strap him to my back and just run and survive. I can't strap him to by back anymore, but I'd be lying if I said the images have left my head.
Coincidentally most all of those vital traits you listed for survival are some of the hardest for a child with autism to deal with.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
This thread was totally positive and affirming of all who posted . . . until the whiney post about religion cropped up.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
*snip*
But mostly, I'd probably have to fall back on my utter dependence on God to undertake HIS great empathy and help for me and for my son in all circumstances now and whenever; then and whatever.
The PROMISE of Daddy, is that HE won't put on us more than we can, with His help, bear. Though it seems like He sure crowds the limits at times.
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
a reply to: BO XIAN
. . . How to handle such matters can be difficult these days, especially since we can't all prepare some sort of bunker or something. Most people will have to simply deal with the problems. As a Christian, I expect to miss the worst of it, but that isn't 100% guaranteed, so preparation isn't a bad thing.
Teaching children to have a strong faith is the #1 priority for me. I can't imagine, either, how anyone manages without that. Children strong in faith will have more than their own strength upon which to rely when bad times come.
Making sure that children can think for themselves is vital as well. That is against what we see in the schools these days, where individual ideas are quashed and treated as "wrong".
Basic techniques in essential skills are a good plan, for anyone. How to locate and gather food, how to obtain drinkable water, how to make shelter, good self-defense; all these need to be learned.
I agree that teaching delayed gratification, tolerance for pain/discomfort and frustration, and endurance are good as well. Kids should not be taught to expect instant gratification, and too many are these days.
Teaching them not to be blind followers of trends is good as well. I love the fact that none of mine seem to care about organized sports, which I see as seriously detrimental in many ways.
The OP isn't saying he wants things to go that route; only that he wants to discuss how to prepare our children if things DO go that route.
From what I have seen, a lot of people claiming to be on the "Let's get along." side are the most intolerant, angry, and violent people round.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
WELL PUT. INDEED. THX.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
ABSOLUTELY INDEED. I expect to hear in Heaven of 3-6 year old children declaring things by Holy Spirit and seeing an evil general and his whole army be swallowed up by the earth.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
ABSOLUTELY.
Thinking of any kind is being eradicated as fast as possible by the jerk stooges from hell.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
Certainly one loses nothing and potentially gains enormously from such training and prepping.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
And that instant gratification substitutes for that which they desperately long for--Daddy's affirmation and love . . . and a connection with their Heavenly Father.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
FOR SURE. MINDLESS GROUP THINK is deadly.
Thx tons for your wise responses.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
The OP isn't saying he wants things to go that route; only that he wants to discuss how to prepare our children if things DO go that route.
From what I have seen, a lot of people claiming to be on the "Let's get along." side are the most intolerant, angry, and violent people round.
INDEED. Their 'tolerance' is sub-atomically thin.
Threaten their rebellion, their hedonism, their willful stubbornness or their arrogance and watch the claws and fangs come out.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
I've been encouraged of narratives of folks who've died temporarily and visited Heaven in the process . . .
They have related many narratives of children who have died tragically . . . about how the child didn't feel the pain of their horrific death . . . and about how the child immediately forgave any perpetrators involved and considers it now nothing of any consequence other than to deliver them immediately into God's arms.
That's very comforting to me as I contemplate the horrors awaiting mankind on the near horizon.