But what shapes a child is not just what’s learned in school. Maybe there’s some rhyme and reason to how many grandparents are actually parenting their grandchildren because Mom and Dad are either divorced or working two jobs/careers trying to get by. In the old days, families stayed together. When I lived in Ontario, Canada I learned about all the generational farmhouses - families stayed together and when a couple married, the family build them an addition on the main farmhouse. I think the most detrimental thing affecting my kids’ generation (80s/90s kids) was too much time without parental supervision. And now they raise their own kids that way, unless they have parents like me who not only sacrificed a career to be home with my kids, but have committed (sometimes I’m think I’m crazy) to do the same for my grands. I think there a lot more people like me out there than most of us realize. Yes, some places are a mess, but I want to believe that middle America is alive and well (even in Canada) and enough of us are still around who understand the value of freedom and who are willing to stand for it, and teach our loved ones to revere it.

But what shapes a child is not just what’s learned in school. Maybe there’s some rhyme and reason to how many grandparents are actually parenting their grandchildren because Mom and Dad are either divorced or working two jobs/careers trying to get by. In the old days, families stayed together. When I lived in Ontario, Canada I learned about all the generational farmhouses - families stayed together and when a couple married, the family build them an addition on the main farmhouse. I think the most detrimental thing affecting my kids’ generation (80s/90s kids) was too much time without parental supervision. And now they raise their own kids that way, unless they have parents like me who not only sacrificed a career to be home with my kids, but have committed (sometimes I’m think I’m crazy) to do the same for my grands.