It is a very short time until our children will be grown and voting citizens.  Are we adequately preparing them for that time?  America has changed a great deal in recent years and is changing every day.

Our children have much they will need to deal with very soon.  They will need to learn to live in a very racially diversified nation.  They will live in a nation even more in debt than at the moment.  They will enjoy even more technology, but at the same time, that technology makes enemies nearer.  The Pacific and Atlantic oceans will no longer be the great shields they have been in the past.

With people streaming across our borders, we must face the fact that many will probably remain here whether or not we would wish it so.  They will compete for jobs and affect the way our schools teach. They will practice their own religion, or no religion.  They may bring diseases our country has never dealt with before.  Border agents tell us that they are being occupied with the illegals while drug cartels send more drugs across the border.  This means the use of more drugs in society.  In many areas of the country, the white race is already a minority.  Children will need to accept other races of people and hopefully do so without giving up Christian principles.

The debt of our nation is mind-boggling.  We are becoming more and more vulnerable to those nations from whom we are borrowing money.  Not only that, we can no longer afford to wage war as we have been able to do, nor do we have the money to help others as in the past.  Social programs have been continuing as our nation borrows and prints more money.  Some of those programs may have to stop.  This means that our children must be educated in such a way as to get jobs to be self-supporting; yet, many of those jobs are not available nor will they be available anytime soon, it would seem, unless something is done immediately.  Our children will possibly have to do without much that they now enjoy.  They will need to learn the difference between needs and wants and how to use money wisely.

The power grids in certain parts of our country have already experienced cyber attacks. Technology is such, even now, that people overseas can hack into our computers and steal our personal information.  Certain countries have sworn to wipe us off the face of the map with missiles or bombs that can reach us.

Not a pretty picture for our children!!  What can we do to prepare them?  The truth is that we cannot totally prepare them. What we can do is to give them a good Spiritual foundation by teaching the Scripture and the value of the Bible and prayer.  We must give them a good basic education and help them become problem-solvers.  We need to teach them to stand their ground in a loving way.  They must learn to be thrifty, hard workers, and resourceful.  They cannot do this and always be comfortable.  They must learn to sacrifice self pleasure when the situation warrants doing so.

What a task we have as adults to prepare our children for future America!