I am just finishing up the book by Reb Bradley, Born Liberal, Raised Right, and I am very inspired!
If you are looking for a book that addresses the root problem in our country today and how YOU as a wife and mom can make a difference for the future generations, then you must read this book!
Below are two articles by World Net Daily on this book along with a video clip of the author being interviewed on Fox news.
Our Visionary Womanhood group will be reading this book together over the next couple of months. Join us if you’d like to be inspired in your VERY CRITICAL role for the future of our country!
Poor parenting is hurting America, and is promoting a “liberal” worldview.
That’s what the hosts of “Fox & Friends” said as they recently introduced Reb Bradley, author of “Born Liberal, Raised Right: How to Rescue America from Moral Decline – One Family at a Time,” the latest release from WND Books.
In case you missed the segment on the Fox News Channel, here it is:
Bradley, an expert on child rearing, says Rush Limbaugh is right about liberals – they are turning America into a nation of victims, dependent, covetous and incapable of the kind of self-government the nation’s founding fathers envisioned.
Author of the previous best-selling book, “Child Training Tips,” Bradley recalls listening to Limbaugh more than a decade ago and having an epiphany about the societal impact of permissive and indulgent parenting.
“I noticed that all of the societal ills Rush talked about were really manifestations of people who really never grew up – never matured,” he explains. “Ultimately, that is what the worldview of liberalism is all about. And we won’t escape its dire ill effects until we learn how to parent.”
Bradley contends that liberalism is the natural condition of the human heart and for people to be capable of self-government, they must be trained against their own nature.
“In this age of technology, one might say that liberalism is our ‘default’ operating condition,” he writes. “Throughout our childhoods, our parents must work hard and change our settings to keep us from operating in our default mode. If parents are successful, we enter adulthood with our new settings fully locked in. Left untrained, all children would grow up liberal in their outlook.”
Listening to Rush Limbaugh describe what he saw as the traits of liberals led parenting expert Bradley to his conclusions that liberals were, in effect, children who never really grew up.
“Liberals are merely inadequately trained children who grew up and now lead using principles they gleaned from their upbringing,” he says.
All people are born liberal, Bradley writes, meaning they are ruled first by their emotions and passions.
“We come into the world determined to survive, and we vehemently express ourselves to get what we need: ‘Waaa!’ and Momma feeds us,” he writes. “‘Waaa!’ and our diaper is changed’ ‘Waaa!’ and we are put down for a nap. As infants, our strong will can keep us comfortable and alive – the more outspoken we are, the more our needs are met. However, as we start to grow, we no longer cry for our necessities – we crave pleasure, too.”
That article above ends abruptly, I realize. Here is the second article:
Never before in my lifetime have I found so many Americans searching for answers.
They want to know how to right the ship of state.
They lie awake at night wondering how to turn a nightmare back into the American Dream.
They yearn for solutions to the divisiveness of our time.
They hunger for the potion that can address the very real political, social, cultural and spiritual problems of the day.
I’ve found a book that can help every single person do their part to get America back on track. I really believe in it. In fact, I published it.
It’s called “Born Liberal, Raised Right: How to Rescue America from Moral Decline – One Family at a Time” by my friend, Reb Bradley.
I didn’t publish it to make money
. And I don’t pitch it to you today to make money (though I have no philosophical objection to making money and make no apologies to anyone for my belief that free-market economics remains the best way to accomplish most objectives).
I published it because I believe in it. In fact, I suggested the author write this book many years before I was in the book-publishing business or the Internet business.
Never before have I read a book that shows so clearly the connection between how we as parents raise our children and the problems besetting our society. I know it’s tougher than ever for parents to protect their children from the pervasive sickness of our culture. I know the schools are in worse shape than ever. I know all the problems today’s parents face.
But, as Reb Bradley points out so well in “Born Liberal, Raised Right,” the problems we face as a nation begin even before parents and children confront any of those other challenges. In other words, they start with us – parents.
We have forgotten how to parent. We have forgotten that kids need to learn basic lessons early – lessons about responsibility, civility, respect, virtue vs. vice, right vs. wrong.
I consider myself a pretty smart guy – sophisticated, well-read, experienced parent, sure of what I believe and the best ways to pass on those beliefs to the next generation.
But I learned plenty reading this book.
It was an eye-opener.
If you’re like me and you want to see America rediscover the inherent liberty associated only with the kind of self-government envisioned by our Founding Fathers, I urge you to get this book and devour it. Give it a chance. It could change your life and the way you look at your children, who, I am quite convinced, represent the only real hope America has.
Those who know me well know I am not fond of some of the terminology used in this book – “conservative” and “liberal,” for instance. It doesn’t matter. Bradley makes a point much bigger than the popular political lexicon of the day. The fact that I don’t consider myself a “conservative” and don’t like using labels like “liberal” doesn’t make a bit of difference in the way I received the essential messages of this book.
It should, quite simply, be required reading with every marriage certificate. But, just as importantly, it is a perfect complement to my own radical prescription for how save our country, “Taking America Back,” which is, interestingly, selling better than ever before. I really mean it. I cannot recommend “Born Liberal, Raised Right” highly enough.
You want answers about getting America back on track? This book has them. I’m convinced that until all of us learn them, we have no hope of seeing better days ahead.
When it comes to kids, Bradley really knows what he’s talking about. He’s the author of the classic best-seller, “Child Training Tips.” But don’t mistake this new book for just another clever discussion of how to raise your kid. It’s much more than that. It’s a clear diagnosis of the problem and a legible, credible prescription for the cure.
I put this book right up there with the most important works of which I have ever been a part.
I’m going to be giving it to plenty of people for Christmas this year. Once you read it for yourself, I am convinced you will want to do the same.
About Wemmick Girl
Was interested in knowing where Bradley looked for solutions. Went to the web for his child rearing book, and found these quotes. He is looking to the right One [emphases added].
Bradley especially targets those parents who are exasperated with their kids.
"Parents who are exasperated with their children are missing the blessing that GOD says children are to bring to their lives. … If our children are not a blessing to us, it is not because an alien tampered with their genetic code as they grew in the womb. It is, most likely, because we have not succeeded in some element of their training."
Among the obstacles Bradley covers are: parental defensiveness, confusing raising children with training them, misunderstanding human depravity and trust in worldly "experts."
"For basic parenting principles … we must look primarily to GOD's Word. To look elsewhere guarantees trouble," Bradley writes.