When I grew up, things had changed. My dad said the places he wanted to show me were overcome with civilization.
The places he played, hunted, fished, and walked in the woods were gone. Given up to houses and businesses.
My grandfather said when he was young, the birds flocked over the skies like vast clouds when they swarmed.
In the early fifties, I saw one of the last Ivory Billed WoodPeckers, a huge bird high in a tree on a creek within walking distance from my grandfather's house.
Today, that creek is cemented in. Gone are the wild things. Gone the trees and the high grass, so high sometimes, it was higher than I.

A long time ago, but in the last hundred years of history, many children got to grow up tasting the natural things of God's creation.
Scripture says, "...the things which can be known of God are clearly seen by what He created..."

It is such a different experience for a young mind to walk through the trees and grass toward a creek teaming with life: fish, frogs, tadpoles, birds, crickets, butterflies, sweet smelling earth, leaves on the ground that crinkle under your feet... dirt that is good for drawing with a stick, building like a castle, or digging a hole. So many things, almost countless, when you get down to the smallest sizes of little bugs and beetles for a child to experience and notice. Like a cascading telescope from the tallest trees to the tiniest little bug he can find. Who will notice the doodle bugs crawling through the dirt?
A child in the woods by the creek has time to watch the ripples spread on the water as he tosses up a pebble and watches it fall into the water, sending out wave after wave after wave of waves going forth from the center of the pebble's bulls-eye.
He can watch a little longer on a creek not too wide, to see those same ripples ever expanding, and finally bouncing back upon themselves as they reflect from the bank of the stream.
The more he watches, the more he learns, true things and worth learning.
But with tv, and the mall, he only learns what other people think, and how to spend money or go into debt, or how to seek pleasure, and how not to be think for himself, but to let other's guide his every thought as tv is so prone to do.

Then, people sat around a campfire and talked. Now, they all stare at a tv, even more so during the tintillating commercials. Then, ideas were shared between friends and neighbors, between people of the same mind who shared their time together. Now, ideas are spewed forth from the tv, from commercial interests and mass-psychology manipulation.

Back on the farm, a child got to see his parents work and see the fruit of their labors. He or she got to walk along side and maybe help gather eggs from the chickens, or milk a cow, or plant a seed, or pick weeds, or harvest a crop. They got to see mom and dad working and learned how to be with them.
Now, all that learning experience is missing. Instead, they go to day-care, where the tv is abundant and meaningless activities occupy their time.
Then, children were given a beginning set of thoughts around mom, dad, work, scripture, right and wrong, and personal friends.
Now, children are given the idea of foolish cartoons, often filled with homosexual overtures even on Sunday morning children's cartoons, and other garbage for their food for thought.

Today, too many children are taught that anything and everything is OK, almost before their parents have a chance to teach them right and wrong.
The schools put the children on guard about their parents even in kindergarten. The nation wide program called Good Touch Bad Touch has no qualms about telling children to call the police on their parents and to be watchful if their dad does something wrong. This kind of doubt and suspicion being planted in a young child's mind at such an early age is destructive to family. They show a ten minute video and then let a spokesperson have free reign for twenty minutes or more. You can't know what was said during that time unless you were there. But I know children who have been traumatized by that program.

Then, families bonded and nature was a great school house.

Now, families watch tv, commute to work, manage day-care, busing and full-time school activity lists. Some school system literature says it needs to become like family to the child because their home life is so lacking in bonding and support.

Consider what the foundation for thought life is when a child is raised under these two very opposing life-styles.
Consider how easy it is to change society when strangers can mold the children's thinking at such early ages as day-care and kindergarten.

What is your child learning antagonistic to the way you were raised???

What does a child learn while he sits on the creek bank?
How long does he sit fascinated by the every expanding wave of waves from the pebble he tossed into the creek?
How much does his mind ask questions and seek answers about the ripples as they travel and finally bounce off the banks and rebound back into one another causing even more secondary ripples?
What does he learn? He learns to be patient, to watch cause and effect, to see interactions. And he is thinking on true things, not fantasy, not sick humor tv, not even weird alien non-existent sci-fi tv.
He is learning truth and the way things are at their foundations.
He is learning things God intented us to know.