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edwest211
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These three magazines have decided to show diverse families to very young kids up to 12 years old according to the LGBT publication, the Advocate. Just so parents know.
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Joe_5859
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Ed, do you have an article on this that gives more details? If so, please share.
Highlights was always the fun magazine I only ever saw at the dentist’s office. Have never heard of the other two.
Highlights was always the fun magazine I only ever saw at the dentist’s office. Have never heard of the other two.
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Maximilian75
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I know that High Five is essentially Highlights Junior… i’ve never heard of Hello, though
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edwest211
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I grew up with Highlights and loved it. The following is the best I can do. I got a warning the first time I posted a link to the Advocate.
https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/highlights-magazine-has-caved-to-the-left/
https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/highlights-magazine-has-caved-to-the-left/
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StephieNorthCo
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I vaguely remember hearing about this on Catholic Radio some time back… maybe last year, but could have been this year. The context at that time was Highlights.
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edwest211
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Highlights Hello is for ages 0 to 2 (that’s straight from the description). Kinda hard to read at age 0.
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petra22
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OH CARP! (YES, I said carp…) I just ordered HIghlights for my 9 yr old grandson. I hate that… I loved Highlights as a child and thought it would be good for him, but now I’ll have to get his mom to check it out before… CARP! YOU know what I mean…!
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Joe_5859
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In retrospect, I remembered that Ed actually posted a thread about this earlier this year:
Highlights children’s magazine to publish image of same-sex couple for first time after controversy World News
So, while it is unfortunate to see these things creeping in to all facets of life, in this case, it appears that it won’t be so overt that a child couldn’t use the magazine without it bringing up questions you don’t want to have to answer yet.
So, yeah, your daughter may just need to look it over beforehand to be sure (because one never knows when something more overt may be thrown in). But it’s possible that it would still be useable.
From what I recall, it isn’t as though the magazine is being super explicit about it. The magazine is largely pictures and activities. So they might have a picture that shows a young boy riding his bike with two adult men. Those who are clamoring for this type of thing can claim “victory” over having a same sex couple represented. But most children will likely be oblivious to it. And if a child notices or asks where the Mommy is, you could always say, “The Mommy must be inside. I bet that’s the Daddy and an uncle.”
So, while it is unfortunate to see these things creeping in to all facets of life, in this case, it appears that it won’t be so overt that a child couldn’t use the magazine without it bringing up questions you don’t want to have to answer yet.
So, yeah, your daughter may just need to look it over beforehand to be sure (because one never knows when something more overt may be thrown in). But it’s possible that it would still be useable.
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petra22
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Thanks for that information. I sent them a letter last night and asked for them to respond. Haven’t heard anything yet…
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FiveLinden
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And how is this any worse than showing a mother and father who are divorced and remarried?
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edwest211
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Regarding Highlights and the related magazines, I don’t know how such families will be depicted. However, I suggest people review the article in the Advocate since it mentions a few other magazines for young people. So, if you want, google LGBT Advocate Highlights and it will take you to the article which is 2 days old.
Looking at it in a broader context, there are storybooks being given to kids in schools that depict gay parents and their children. The organization GLAAD does an annual study of the number of LGBT characters appearing on TV, and 2017 has been the best year yet.
Looking at it in a broader context, there are storybooks being given to kids in schools that depict gay parents and their children. The organization GLAAD does an annual study of the number of LGBT characters appearing on TV, and 2017 has been the best year yet.
Tis_Bearself
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Young readers are going to get “exposed” to it anyway when they go out in the world and meet other kids who have 2 dads or 2 moms at home, maybe even married to each other.
If you can’t or don’t want to explain the content as “that’s dad and uncle, and Mom is at the grocery store” as the other guy said, it might be better to just have a frank talk with your kids about what you value and how maybe it’s different from other people’s values, because they are likely going to see this in real life. Just as they now see kids with divorced and remarried parents, or single parents who may be moving themself and their child in with a new boyfriend or girlfriend every few years.
If you can’t or don’t want to explain the content as “that’s dad and uncle, and Mom is at the grocery store” as the other guy said, it might be better to just have a frank talk with your kids about what you value and how maybe it’s different from other people’s values, because they are likely going to see this in real life. Just as they now see kids with divorced and remarried parents, or single parents who may be moving themself and their child in with a new boyfriend or girlfriend every few years.
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edwest211
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In this case. it is age inappropriate. Kids 12 years old and younger, are not emotionally or mentally mature enough to understand this. By taking the conversation away from parents, and as replies show here, just exposing them to such subject matter in a magazine known to have never presented this in the past is not the right approach. Parents and grandparents remember the same fun, kid-friendly magazine I loved as a kid. This is an unannounced and unexpected change.
People living in irregular situations reflect the moral relativism that started to be marketed in the late 1960s. And it’s appropriate on a Catholic forum to mention this, including people who are not married but who have sex, have kids and don’t care. Or who model bad and dysfunctional behavior to their kids as somehow good or normal. Stable families are good. Not, “Leave me alone! We’ll live how we want!!!” I heard that decades ago. Kids need stability at school and later, at work. But if they come home and find a different guy every so often, how are they supposed to react? Not good.
People living in irregular situations reflect the moral relativism that started to be marketed in the late 1960s. And it’s appropriate on a Catholic forum to mention this, including people who are not married but who have sex, have kids and don’t care. Or who model bad and dysfunctional behavior to their kids as somehow good or normal. Stable families are good. Not, “Leave me alone! We’ll live how we want!!!” I heard that decades ago. Kids need stability at school and later, at work. But if they come home and find a different guy every so often, how are they supposed to react? Not good.
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lilypadrees
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Well said, petra22. I’m sorry that these magazines have caved in. We need positive family publications. Alas, the Highlights of our youth will be no more if they do this.
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JimG
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I think it’s sad for current and future children that society has so readily caved in to a leftist agenda of sexual revolution, gay marriage, sexual fluidity, and transgenderism. It is a rejection of human nature, even of nature itself, as Rod Dreher noted in a recent article. Kids are defenseless and it seems no one is protecting them.
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edwest211
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I understand how easy it is, depending on the subject, to go from one extreme to another. By anyone making parents aware of what is happening with Highlights, and other magazines, and what their kids are being exposed to in school without their knowledge and consent - that helps. Homeschooling helps. Networking with other parents helps. Posting here helps. I was there in the late 1960s during the Sexual Revolution. New evangelists calling themselves Hippies, Anarchists and Dissidents began to appear in our neighborhoods to promote their false gospel. It took 40 years for the media to slowly, gradually poison the Body of Christ in the West. I saw it happen as it happened. It was no accident. On TV in 1970, they started with a little bad, and as the years passed, added a little more then a little more, and a little more until today.
Do the right thing. It takes effort but just do what you know is right. Reject the falsehoods. Recognize them for what they are.
Do the right thing. It takes effort but just do what you know is right. Reject the falsehoods. Recognize them for what they are.
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edwest211
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What all this boils down to is the individual becomes god (“I wish life could be anything!” Iggy Pop, from the song Five Foot One, on the album “New Values,” released in 1979. But let’s look at this correctly. God is with us.
"Pope Benedict XVI on Society and Truth
“Today at the Practical Catholic, we’ll be looking with Pope Benedict at the erosion happening in societies across the world and what Christians can do in response. So here we have a few Pope Benedict XVI quotes from various sources to help us along the way.”
"The Holy Father says:
Commentary by the Practical Catholic:
"How true this is. Where there is no communication, no culture, no shared experience, there is no society; because there is no people. There remains only a vast and foreboding, unforgiving sea of individuals ready to crash upon each other and the world with the slightest wind. Without a common basis, we have not the vaulted pluralism we’re taught to embrace, but Babel, in all the confusion and madness of a society with no binding forces. Already we are seeing the tensions of this fragmentation breaking out across cultures.
“Without common values and truths, such as in the socieites we find ourselves in, we find the fabric of society torn like Joseph’s cloak, by a great many tribes which would like to lay claim to the title of favored. Leftists, conservatives, anarchists, nihilists, secularists, objectivists, the shallow, the entertainers, the entertained, all vying for control against each other. Tribalism can indeed spawn differentiation, but without some common ground, and in the face of increasing jargon not only in the academies but in the cultures; we shall be left with madness. In the end this tribalism can only result in the decline of all their claims, and the alienation of one from the other. Babel is the happenstance when society tries to become God.”
"Pope Benedict XVI on Society and Truth
“Today at the Practical Catholic, we’ll be looking with Pope Benedict at the erosion happening in societies across the world and what Christians can do in response. So here we have a few Pope Benedict XVI quotes from various sources to help us along the way.”
"The Holy Father says:
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"If we cannot have common values, common truths, sufficient communication on the essentials of human life–how to live how to respond to the great challenges of human life–then true society becomes impossible.""How true this is. Where there is no communication, no culture, no shared experience, there is no society; because there is no people. There remains only a vast and foreboding, unforgiving sea of individuals ready to crash upon each other and the world with the slightest wind. Without a common basis, we have not the vaulted pluralism we’re taught to embrace, but Babel, in all the confusion and madness of a society with no binding forces. Already we are seeing the tensions of this fragmentation breaking out across cultures.
“Without common values and truths, such as in the socieites we find ourselves in, we find the fabric of society torn like Joseph’s cloak, by a great many tribes which would like to lay claim to the title of favored. Leftists, conservatives, anarchists, nihilists, secularists, objectivists, the shallow, the entertainers, the entertained, all vying for control against each other. Tribalism can indeed spawn differentiation, but without some common ground, and in the face of increasing jargon not only in the academies but in the cultures; we shall be left with madness. In the end this tribalism can only result in the decline of all their claims, and the alienation of one from the other. Babel is the happenstance when society tries to become God.”
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edwest211
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This took planning and constant, year in and year out effort. More from the Practical Catholic:
"Pope Benedict XVI goes on to say:
Commentary by the Practical Catholic.
“Pope Benedict does not play language games, he is unconcerned with the postmodernist’s corner on untruth. Neither should we be. Notice how he calls relativism a “dictatorship” instead of agreeing that no values and no Truth are the way forward for society. What many fail to recognize is that imposing nihilism and arbitrary tribalism is a form of dictatorship. Where untruth or half truth is the common order, there can only be oppression. Political correctness has asked us to abandon our value-laden language and to pick up a new language proper to the secular forum. However, this secular newspeak is value-laden against the traditional claims of the Western world and as such, is a poison rather than a new order. We can and should bring our own conviction laden language to the table, if we’re going to have any sort of real dialogue at all. Misinformation and restrained convictions are not the proper building blocks for a democracy.”
"Pope Benedict XVI goes on to say:
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"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. The church must defend itself against threats such as “radical individualism” and “vague religious mysticism”. [emphasis added]“Pope Benedict does not play language games, he is unconcerned with the postmodernist’s corner on untruth. Neither should we be. Notice how he calls relativism a “dictatorship” instead of agreeing that no values and no Truth are the way forward for society. What many fail to recognize is that imposing nihilism and arbitrary tribalism is a form of dictatorship. Where untruth or half truth is the common order, there can only be oppression. Political correctness has asked us to abandon our value-laden language and to pick up a new language proper to the secular forum. However, this secular newspeak is value-laden against the traditional claims of the Western world and as such, is a poison rather than a new order. We can and should bring our own conviction laden language to the table, if we’re going to have any sort of real dialogue at all. Misinformation and restrained convictions are not the proper building blocks for a democracy.”
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petra22
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This is exactly how it looks and feels in our country today!!! I want to just cry, "Come, Lord Jesus, come!!!
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Viki63
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I wrote them a few months ago that we would be cancelling our subscriptions after they ran out, and explained why. They replied that they would let the staff know. Perhaps if many people did so, they might sit up and take notice. But people are afraid of not being politically correct, or they’ve bought into the lies that it doesn’t affect us.
My response to that is, Cue the thought police.
My response to that is, Cue the thought police.
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