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Looking for anti-woke books on parenting, preferably secular. How does raise children to not be woke? How does one teach them the gospel of success through hard work and mastery through practice? How does one handle the hypergamy question? How to balance tolerance with an appropriate level of caution around "inner-city youth"?
Is your goal primarily to
A) maximize the odds of raising a little Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney-Barrett
or
B) minimize the odds of your kid going off the woke deep end and turning into a little Robin DiAngelo or Viv Musk
Those goals are somewhat in tension. A lot of the most straightforward religious conservative figures I know were raised in very restrictive and ideologically indoctrinating households by domineering patriarchs, but so were a lot of the most off-the-deep-end wokies.
The bisexual onlyfans type girls I've dated, the absolute nightmare of the manosphere, were all universally the product of religious upbringings, often bundled off to Liberty or Oral Roberts after high school, and broke bad as soon as they were out from under daddy's thumb if not sooner. I know of precisely one trans kid from my high school circle, her parents stopped talking to my parents during the Bush administration because my parents were too liberal.
If you want to prevent your kids from being crazy wokescolds, don't take politics too seriously. Horseshoe theory: the opposite of the wokescold isn't the religious conservative, that's just a switch in valence. The opposite of the wokescold is the normie who shrugs and just kind of gets on with their life and ignores everything else going on around them.
If you seek to indoctrinate your kids via weekly Dread Jim readings, you're as likely to end up not talking to your gay son or blue haired thot daughter as you are to buy them a lot on your compound to raise your seven grandkids in the Truth. Don't overcommit, don't overpromise your ideology. So many religious conservatives tell their kids that everyone in the faith is good and everyone outside the faith is bad, this is so manifestly untrue that it is obliterated by contact with reality the moment the child steps outside the bubble.
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