Tag: Parenting

Civic Life, Culture, Education, Parenting

❦The Blind Spot in the Public School Debate

Mrs Armstrong

Many parents assume the education system reflects the basic civic values they themselves hold: fairness, responsibility, freedom of thought, and opportunity. That assumption is understandable—and increasingly risky. What many children encounter in schools today is not partisan politics, but a deeper shift in how rights, power, and responsibility are framed. Ideas once taken for granted—such as property, voluntary exchange, and limits on authority—are quietly reinterpreted, often without parents ever being told explicitly. This isn’t about turning children into members of one political party or another. It’s about whether parents are aware of the moral and civic framework their children are inheriting by default. When institutions teach values by omission rather than debate, consent is replaced by assumption—and most families never realize a choice was made for them.

Capitalism, Economics, Parenting

❧Ways to Teach Economics to Your Children

Mrs Armstrong

Economics is not first learned in classrooms, markets, or ballot boxes. It is learned in the home. Long before children encounter taxes, debt, or inflation, they are already forming beliefs about money, work, fairness, and responsibility. If parents do not teach these truths deliberately, the State and the screen will fill the vacuum — and they will not teach freedom. Children must learn early the difference between voluntary help and forced redistribution, between charity and control, between earning and entitlement. These lessons do not require jargon or ideology. They require only simple questions, lived examples, and the courage to tell the truth plainly. A child who understands choice, consequence, and scarcity does not grow into a cruel adult. They grow into a competent one. And competence, not sentiment, is the foundation of a free society.

Art Meditations, Moral Philosophy, Parenting

Parents: You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have

Mrs Armstrong

Children are often shaped less by harm than by absence; the absence of moral authority and virtue in the adults who raise them. Where prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice are weak, children inherit disorder by proximity. Take the virtue test and see where you need to grow.