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(Tom: Absolutely LOVE this and agree 1,000%!)

Copied from David Morris on Twitter.
Photography by Rebekah Melancon.

Saw this somewhere and it was immensely helpful and challenging.

Parenting is hard. Parents have to choose their battles. Here are 8 fights worth picking with your kids:

The Reading Fight:
Make your kids read. Because reading is tied to everything from cognitive development to the ability to focus. Make your kids read now.

The Outside Fight:
Make your kids go outside. The natural world teaches us things. Plus, outside there’s sunshine, fresh air, and exercise waiting for them. Most importantly, nature is full of things in short supply in our world: Discovery, wonder, peace, joy.

The Work Fight:
Make your kids work. I’m saddened by how many parents don’t require their kids to lift a finger at home. There are priceless life principles you can only learn with a mop in your hand. Let sweat be their teacher.

The Meal Fight:
Make your kids eat as a family. Our lives are a blur of incessant activity. Meals together are a physical pause to recover a truth so easily sacrificed at the altar of busyness. Nothing’s more important than family.

The Boredom Fight:
Make your kids live with boredom. Don’t show a DVD on each car ride. Kids need unscheduled time. And, odd as it sounds, boredom is a skill. It’s hard as a parent to deal with the assault of boredom complaints. But if you give in and fill up their time with external stimuli, you’ll raise an activity addict. Make them learn how to be.

The “Me First” Fight:
Make your kids go last. Not every time for everything. But enough to remember that the world doesn’t revolve around them. Take the smallest piece. Give up the remote. Do someone else’s chores. Get their least favorite choice. They won’t like it, but they need it.

The Awkward Conversation Fight:
Make your kids have uncomfortable conversations with you. Sex, dating, body image, values…Your kids will roll their eyes and resist. You will stumble and stutter. They need and want your perspective, lessons learned, and wisdom.

The Limitation Fight:
Learning to live within limits is a valuable life skill. In fact, many adult problems arise from an inability to accept them. Screen time limits, dietary limits, activity limits, and schedule limits are all good.

As a parent, you have to pick your battles. They’re not easy, but they’re worth the fight.

The UN is about to convene the 67th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from March 6th to 17th, and the call to fight back against their proposed radical agenda is more crucial than ever before.

The UN is outright against us … because we are preaching the truth! They know that what we say is right … that there exists no right to end an innocent life, that boys cannot be girls and girls cannot be boys, that men and women are defined by their biology and not a made-up ideology … all these things that so lividly offend the radical leftist institutions.

So what do they do? They try to ban us, silence us, censor us, and have even called us terrorists!

They have been conspiring to try and make sure the only narrative heard is the one that supports limitless abortions and propagates radical LGBT propaganda.

We are about to face a momentous battle. And that’s why we need your help in this upcoming operational fight from within.

This month, the UN is about to convene the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), and the call to fight back against their radicalism and attacks on the traditional family and life is more crucial than ever before.

In the draft of the negotiation document that we have been thoroughly assessing at CitizenGO, the Commission, in reference to conclusions that were not formally adopted as binding commitments like the Beijing Declaration, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and other summits, suggests that abortion, sexualization of children, gender ideology are all things that should be inherently promoted.

The UN aims to advance so-called “Comprehensive Sexuality Education,” or CSE, which focuses on indoctrinating children with explicit and immoral content, including explicit sexualization, LGBT propaganda, and lies about what defines a man and a woman.

Amongst many things, CSE even endorses practices such as promiscuity, teaching masturbation to 4-year-old children, and abnormal acts, as well as early sexual initiation that are harmful to children and youth.

From the age of four, the guidance proposes teaching children that gender is a social construct and teaching them to “appreciate their own gender identity and demonstrate respect for the gender identity of others” from the age of nine.

Included also in the objectives of the CSE is teaching children about various types of “non-traditional families” and a heavy emphasis on LGBT rights. UNESCO unashamedly touts its approach as “evidence-informed.”

The pro-family voice is being battered, and it is time we stand up for it!

Sign this petition asking the diplomats, government delegates, and all negotiators at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women to scrap the paragraphs that recognize abortion as a right and push for ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education’ (CSE).

https://citizengo.org/en/node/210374