Leftist Children

We got a question in for our American Mamas...

Dear Mamas, we are conservative, but our grown children have bought into the leftist nonsense full force.  Help!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got a question for American mama's to your mama's,
we are conservative, but our grown children have bought into
the leftist nonsense full force.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Help.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh my, well, let's ask our American mama's.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Mama Mama, and joining us now are American mamas Terry
Edville and Kimberly Burlson. I don't think my kids have
bought into the left full force. I do know that

(00:32):
there's some kids that I've worked with on different things
in the past, and I see their Facebook posts and
I'm just like, oh, no, you're believing lies. How do
you help those parents that are dealing with that? How
do you help the kids that have bought into things

(00:54):
that simply aren't true?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, when we got this question, I thought about
one particular friend of mine on Facebook. We've been friends
for years. I've watched her children grow up, My kids
have all been in school with her. Her son is
as far left as you can possibly get, and he
is spewing things online all day, every day, and my
friend is completely opposite. So I decided to call her

(01:18):
because I just wanted to have a conversation with her,
because I wanted to ask her, like, what do you
do because she's so loving, she's so wonderful. So I
called her and it was a very interesting conversation, and
she gave me a little background. She said, he married
an atheist. That's the first thing that happened. Oh, but
she's loving. She said, she's the most wonderful girl. She's
the most wonderful girl. But she's an atheist. Her parents

(01:42):
are atheists, and they're not as wonderful. And she said,
what I've noticed is my son grew up Christian with
Christian values. He is now his idol, is now his wife,
and she feels like he is posting things to make
her happy, to make her feel seen and to be loved.
And she said, all I want is relationship with my child.

(02:03):
Because I love my child. I'll never turn away from him.
I will never shame him. She said, the problem is
he wants to debate me all the time, and I
want to And she said, I'm very clear, let's not
go there, let's not have this conversation. But yet he's
his desire is to win. He wants to win arguments,
and he's never going to win an argument with me

(02:24):
because we think so fundamentally differently. And she said, so
what I do is I when I have my grandchildren,
he told me, do not ever bring up God, you know,
And she said, God's a part of my life every day,
all day. So sometimes it slips, she says, I really
try to be mindful of what he wants, but he
is who I am, and so she said, I pray.

(02:48):
That's what I'm doing. I am praying all the time
because his foundation is the Christian values that we raised
him with. I believe that he will come back to that,
and I believe she will too, his wife.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
So that is actually very good advice that if you're
dealing with kids who have become prodigal, right, that the
appropriate response to that is prayer. That there really is.
I mean, look, Christians believe there's power in prayer, then
let's put that into practice. I think that's wise advice.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Terry Well, I you know, do you I remember that
eighties show Family Ties, Oh yeah, where Michael P. Keaton
was the Republican of the family and they were all
like the hippie liberals exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I think how brilliant that show was because they allowed
each other to be each other and love each other right,
no matter what the problem now is that things have
gotten so heated between the two parties. They're so different
from each other in so many ways. And you can't
blame the kid because he's hearing this news from the
left and they're given misinformation and they are spinning stories,

(03:56):
and so they truly firmly believe that what they're saying
that hates all black people are Trump.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
You know all the news about the shutdown, that the
big media which is completely lying overnight, over and over.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
All you can say is what I said to a
friend that got into it with me is, look, I'm
not going to blame you for believing what you believe
because you believe what you believe because of who you're around,
what you're exposed to, who you listen to on the
radio or whatever. And same with me. So you know,
I would hope that you'd give me the same respect.
But all I can say is I love you no

(04:31):
matter what. I will not let politics override our friendship.
In this case, your son, I will not let politics
override my love for you. So we'll stay off the
topic and know that I'm here for you and that
we'll just respect that each other feels differently, and it's
simply because of what rings true in our heart, what
we hear that feels right, what we hear that feels wrong,

(04:52):
And then I feel like eventually you just that that
respect comes through and you're able to maintain those relationships.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I do think that a foundational worldview is so important.
If you don't have the rooting in God is actually real,
God is in control, then you can spin out of
control very quickly. And if you start thinking that, well,
all people are good and well, that's starts leading to
another problem too, because we're not. And then you start

(05:23):
blaming society for why people are bad. When people are
bad because we're in a fallen world, and so you
can get things upside down very very quickly if you
don't have a solid foundation to your worldview. I agree,
prayer is so important.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I cannot think of anything else that gets me through.
It gets us through.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
And this particular mother, she'll she'll win in the end
because of that, He'll know that he's loved absolutely.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
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Terry Netib Kimberly Brother listen. Thank you so much,