Raising Resilience

I’m pretty proud of this guy!

He is my…. “Color outside the lines” and “Careening off the rails” kiddo!

I’ve said more prayers for him than you can imagine asking Jesus to take the wheel and the Holy Spirit to surround him in bubble wrap!

He was part of the CoViD class. His senior year in high school was ripped away from him because of the absolute evil dumbness of isolation, virtual schooling and 6 ft distancing.

All of it was wrong! Every last bit of it.

And… as a result of all that bullshit, his class doubled down on breaking rules and living every moment with reckless disregard for most of their time in college.

I look back now and think about how his high school & thousands of others, in an effort to “save lives” kept his classmates apart while the majority of parents on weekends did the opposite. For the mental well being of these kids, we encouraged them to all be together. It was a battle of strategies that took place Monday- Friday and every weekend between.

We, as parents that lived with these kids, could see the destruction of their mental health on an hourly basis and advocated for them whilst being called science denying killers by friends, family, politicians and medical experts.

Of course, it took years for the truth to come out but eventually we were vindicated. The cloth masks were useless. The 6ft rule was never based on science. The plexiglass installed at every checkout counter in the land was stupid. And the biggie… The vaccine never prevented C*vid and turned out to increase the likelihood of Myocarditis in boys his age.

I say all of this for a couple of reasons today.

First, anyone out there in the stratosphere claiming that their views on policies and public affairs are correct because “experts” confirm them….. is a dimwit.

“Experts” have been wrong way too frequently lately and have lost most of their credibility along with the media who never do their F’ing jobs as journalists to investigate and demand the truth. The CDC and the NIH both had their moment to shine and they came out with cloth masks and stickers on store floors

Secondly, I point all of this out because…..have any of you noticed that the mugshots of many perpetrators of violent shootings over the past few years look the same? “20 somethings” ??

I don’t think it’s a far stretch to see that during what was supposed to be the greatest years of their lives, they suffered from isolation, depression and overwhelming anxiety. Many are mentally unstable and angry.

I don’t see many posts from people who advocated for lockdowns, masks and jabs on my feed anymore because they are the same ones that said, “Charlie Kirk didn’t deserve to die but……”

I removed them from my social media world and it was a very satisfying decision. From the few that I do still see, they seem to be stuck in a loop of…. “How can you support the current President, Governor, Secretary of ….. ??”

Here’s the answer …. The past administration, leaders and experts were a shitstorm of incompetent liars. They destroyed a generation of kids with those lies. I don’t give one twit about what they think about the Department of HHS firing employees & scientists or whether the Department of War is removing generals that are fat and out of shape or whether they think the DoJ is politically targeting people. There are so many facts that dispute all of that media drivel but those people didn’t learn the lesson to research and investigate instead of believing the “experts” and media.

I started this post about being proud of my Volunteer and I’ll finish with it. He did survive that insanity and came out of college as a healthy critcal thinking human. He has skepticism and researches things before believing them. He is passionate and focused. He and his friends are not the “Greatest Generation” but they are definitely the “Most Resilient”