Here is How to Save Your Family: Part 2

In the last part, I showed you how things in this country have been going south since 1970. I can still recall my older brother doing his high school homework. One of his books had an example representing the US gold supply in the mid 1950s then a great reduction in the early 1960s. At that time, the US had very little debt. The debt that we had was owned by the American Public. I asked him what happened to the US gold supply. He told me that we gave the gold away. As a child, that is what it seemed to be like. Now I know that we spent it all.

So how do we protect our family from the economic doom that is getting worse and worse as time marches on? We will look at how people live in our society and take it from there.

Education

Education does not start on the first day of school. It starts when we are still in our mother’s stomachs. If parents wait until the first day of school then your child will already be behind.
I started teaching my children while they were in my wife’s stomach by saying simple words such as “hello” and “hi.” Here is the reason why my oldest daughter said, “Hi” to me at two months old. My oldest daughter just had her second child. Her and her husband did the same thing. Guess what? David, her son said “Hi” to her in his second month of living.

Children pick up things like sponges in their first 7 years of life. At that time, they can learn anything. Take advantage of the time by going over letters, number, and teaching them to read simple words. Toy Stores have note cards that you can buy along with teaching guides to move them along. The objective is to give them a head start when they do enter the classroom.

Remember that your child is competing with other children, not just in your child’s school but in schools around the world.

When I was in Eighth Grade, I went to the West Mifflin School District near Pittsburgh. I had a Seventh Grade girlfriend who got “C” and “D”. I told her that she is going to have to pick up her grades. She told me that she was the smartest Black person in the seventh grade. This statement says a lot about her hopes, background, and her parents.

The West Mifflin School District at the time was only 8% Black and 91% White. Her parents grew up in a society where people applied by jobs based on race. In the 1950s, that was the way the jobs were placed in the newspaper. So being the best Black in the school was all you had to be. She was a girl and girls grew up, had babies, and stayed home. She came from a poor family. To them, finding a place to stay and eating was good times.

Besides, even for Whites of that time, graduating from school and working in the Steel Mill is all they had to look forward too. An employee could make a good living, buy cars, and a house with very little or no education.

But things change. Black as well as Whites had no idea that after graduation, their time in the Steel Mill was already numbered. The Steel Mills went oversees and their standard of living declined.

Because of massive Federal Debt, public school education will have to change. If you want your children to keep a good standard of living, they will have to have an education that can compete with anyone in the world, just not their school or their town. You the parents (mother and father) will have to play a key role in this education development that is a “Work and Progress” for 25 years. You the parents will have to train them before they go into public education as well as while they are in Public Schools. You the parents will also have to start making financial plans for college as early as one month out of child birth. Grandparents and other family member will have to do their part as well.

Sports in Public School

I am sorry to tell you this but in the near future; most public schools around the country are going to disband school athletic programs. With no Federal money, schools cannot afford this expense any longer. Parents will have to take advantage of other youth athletic programs such as USA Athletics.

http://www.usatf.org/events/2005/USAYouthOutdoorTFChampionships/

The people who take the time to help train their children and grandchildren in sports will have the advantage when it comes to giving out sports scholarships. Training should start at age 5 or 6 so that they will have the advantage against others as teenagers. This will get the attention of colleges. The best of the best in college will go on to the professional and worldwide sports programs.