Parent Alert: Netflix Kills Kids Entertainment

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What happened to kids' entertainment that wasn’t designed to break their brains? Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids examines developmentally-questionable YouTube Kids content now being streamed on Netflix… and what parents need to know. Plus, Illinois’ Department of Education is caught deceiving parents with tampered proficiency ratings and mental health mandates for kids that might violate the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment.
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Today is Wednesday, November 4th, 2026.
What a morning, right? Okay, big questions for this
episode. Is Netflix now officially accomplice
to breaking kids' brains by streaming
developmentally questionable YouTube content?
Was Illinois' Department of Education caught
tampering with proficiency ratings
and possible pupil rights violations?
We're asking questions, offering solutions,
and yes, the midterms did happen last night.
We'll do a brief convo about that, too. Parent Alert starts right now.
Yes, we're kicking off this morning with joy,
regardless of how any of us are feeling or how
our heads might be spinning this morning.
Welcome to Parent Alert. This is our first
episode following the midterm elections that most of us are...
Trying to reconcile and sort through all, you know, can I say that?
I think I can say it in
that way. I'd be remiss if I didn't offer anything
to you about the results. My takeaway,
personally, I offer this to you,
parents and teachers and grandparents and anyone watching.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid.
Do not be discouraged,
for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
That, of course, is Joshua 1.9.
In other words...
No matter what happens ever, raise your family to know God,
educate your kids to know history,
encourage and challenge them to defend and conserve American values,
the biblical values
that built this nation and carry us as Americans together.
After any kind of defeat, get up,
keep doing good, no matter what,
and most importantly, show and tell your children.
On with the day and on with this week's show.
All right, here we go. Into the first video. Disclaimer.
If you have motion sensitivity issues or get dizzy easily, buckle up.
Roll the clip.
First thing, each team has to select the spot for their sleepover.
You put an X with your tape,
and then the other team cannot go and use that spot.
Where do we go? What about one of the toy sections?
Guys, I'm 30 years old.
I have been wanting forever to do a sleepover in Target,
and tonight I actually get the opportunity to do it.
I just have to find the best spot for a sleepover.
I mean, like, what about over here?
Is it too little? Yeah.
All right. Yeah, too little.
If they get a better spot than me, I'm already at a disadvantage.
This could low-key be cool, like right here.
I kind of like this.
I feel like we're just in the middle of everything.
Oh my god, no, that's a really good spot.
No, that's a good spot right by Beauty.
Right next to the food, next to Beauty's stuff,
you know, for my nighttime skincare routine.
I feel like this is the best spot, yeah?
Remember, where I choose to put the sleepover is incredibly important
because there's a judge coming at the end of the night.
And picking the right spot could determine whether
or not I win this competition.
Okay, yeah, so that video was a little unexpected,
given my, you know, opening commentary and
offering you strength and hope
and conviction through any kind of defeat after the midterm
elections. But did I not warn you about the motion sickness, guys?
That clip is YouTube's
famous Jordan Matter
with his online sensation daughter influencer named Salish, the darling
Darling girl in the video, one of the darling girls.
Ask your tween who this family is,
because apparently they are it right now in the online
tween world.
And when we were planning this week's episode,
yes, of course, we knew that the midterm elections
were happening, but we planned this episode
to tackle some topics that have been at the
top of my mind as a parent, separate from...
the midterm elections happening.
So yeah, so I wanted to share this with you and I'm going to
get into why very soon.
Thank you for joining Parent Alert this morning. I'm Jill Simonian,
mom of teens and one of the co-creators
of PragerU Kids here at PragerU. Drop me a comment
where you're watching from.
As many of you already know, Parent Alert tackles today's most urgent
issues in raising and educating kids.
And we live stream every Wednesday at 10.30
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this episode is going to be over on our website
to rewatch as many times as you wish on PragerU.com slash Parent Alert.
So first and foremost,
drop me a comment what state you're watching from.
Drop me a comment. Tell me how you're
feeling this morning. Okay.
Okay.
Back now to the unstoppable YouTube creations
and the headline topic of this parent alert.
Jordan Matter and his daughter Salish.
These are household names for today's tween crowd.
Again, tweens, for anyone who might be confused, it's roughly ages 8
to 12-year-olds in between that childhood and teenage years.
Now, I myself...
Was not aware of who the Matters are I did not know
who Jordan Matter was I did not know who Salish Matter was
My kids are full-blown high schoolers teenagers now
and when my teens were tweens and younger even I
Did not allow YouTube content like that in our home.
They weren't allowed to watch it
My kids never had their own iPad.
We had a family iPad that they had to get permission
to borrow from, check out like a library.
I was very, very strict. Some people might
even say unreasonably strict
when it came to monitoring my kids' YouTube content.
The only thing that they were, one of the only things
that they were really allowed to watch
was our PragerU Kids videos, and that's the truth.
And aside from, you know,
some other things that were Disneyland-oriented
or Disney or very wholesome things, educational things.
But here's who the Matters are,
if you're a parent who is like me, who didn't know who they were.
So, Jordan Matter.
Who started his YouTube career in 2017,
he was a photography vlogger, he then pivoted
to family content after, Jordan Matters the dad,
he pivoted to family content after his
very energetic pre-teen daughter, Salish,
who was, I guess, a competitive gymnast at
the time.
She, he put her on his YouTube here and there,
and apparently she brought all this viral
traction and started growing his channel.
In around like 2020, 2021.
If you go to Jordan's YouTube channel, you will see right at the top
in the header, the channel reads subscribe
or my daughter will punch you.
So.
As an adult, I laugh at that, but as a parent,
I ask, when a kid goes to the YouTube channel
and they see that header,
is that the type of value and messaging that we want our kids to
absorb into their value system? I only ask.
Okay, so now, cut to now. Jordan Matter has,
last time I looked, 38.5 million subscribers. The channel is
Filled with videos that have very,
very fast cuts that drive and crash dopamine in growing brains.
Um, I am not a scientist,
but I am citing the data from scientific studies and medical research
that has proven that very, very fast edited cuts,
uh, drive dopamine crashes after children are
done watching those types of videos.
Um, the types of the videos also have an editing style
that leans right into favoring YouTube's algorithm.
Everything is a colorful pop-up graphic within the video,
outside of the video.
All of the episodes are, most of the episodes rely
on gamified interactions, gamified challenges.
Dangerous.
Not many of them all that virtuous, I don't think.
Salish and her dad also recently launched
a makeup line for teens called Sincerely Yours
at Sephora. So they are, I never begrudge family businesses.
Listen, we live in a capitalistic
society. I honor the mission and the drive
and the ability to make money from your individual
hard work. I am not disputing that.
But I am going to ask, you know, post some questions
regarding the inherent value about...
You know regarding some of these videos.
So as of February, The Matters signed a deal with Netflix, which
Netflix now is
remixing their YouTube content,
pretty much syndicating and rerunning it on Netflix.
And
Netflix is also reportedly soon going to have
an original series starring Salish and her dad.
So it's part of this whole big trend
and and this is what I want parents to be aware of.
The Matters YouTube channel going to Netflix for Netflix to syndicate
and rerun and remix their content
so that it can be streamed on Netflix in your home, on your television.
This is part of this growing trend that Netflix is now leaning
into to take the most popular YouTubers, viral sensations,
and give them shows to scoop young audience members.
Drive their numbers up, make more money, et cetera, et cetera.
I want to look at now, and this is just for your information.
The show is called Parent Alert,
so I am alerting you so that you are informed.
So let's look at some of these other YouTube shows,
just to get a broad smattering, making
their way to Netflix.
Also, we have the Stokes Twins, and well,
let's start with the Stokes Twins, which is
YouTube content that is popular for ages around 9 or 10 up to 13.
Let's roll the clip
Okay, so everyone has to build a secret room in their color
and mine is blue. Wait, this couch is perfect
I can remove the cushions use the space underneath it
to build my secret room. Check it out
This is way too small. Maybe I could have fit in here five years ago.
Let's just look for another spot
Meanwhile, Tanner and Alan were starting their search outside
Oh, perfect, run!
Okay, so I can build my secret room
in one of these red TNT barrels.
There's no way she wants to be near all of these explosives.
You can't fit in that, Tanner.
I literally have the hardest color, so I'm going to have
to be really creative in where I build my secret room.
Wait, a coffin!
What if I put this against that wall, cut out the back of the coffin,
and use that as a hidden entrance to a secret room?
Did anybody else get dizzy watching that?
I don't know, maybe I middle-aged, I got, it was dizzy.
Okay, so we have, I'm just going to sum it up.
You got prank culture, deception, making people uncomfortable.
The Stokes twins episodes also reportedly have inappropriate profanity,
sexual lewd quips.
They have fake blood, crude banter that can sometimes cross the line,
in my opinion, for kids under the age of 10.
Or over the age of 10, too.
I mean, who am I kidding?
Kidding.
This series
also showcases a certain kind of behavioral modeling.
A lot of parents saying that it models lying to parents,
deceiving parents, risky behavior,
You're, you know,
you know, doing pranks that aren't appropriate.
I'm
A lot of stuff that really goes against what we
most reasonable people want their children to
sorry.
value and act in a certain way. So let's go to another.
So that's for the tweens. Let's go to
another series that Netflix is also acquiring.
Cocomelon for toddlers. You might know this one.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it, and roll it, and mark it with a B,
and put it in the oven for baby and me.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it, and roll it, and mark it with a B,
and put it in the oven for baby and me.
Okay, so that was admittedly a bit more tame than the Stokes twins.
I didn't get quite as dizzy
watching that one.
But again, I want you to look at these videos through this lens.
Rapid scene
cuts, lack of narrative depth.
The scenes change every one to three seconds with continuous panning,
zooming in and out, bright, high contrast colors, hooks.
Melodic hooks, scene hooks, quick clips to get young eyes,
for lack of a better word, hypnotized and glued to the screen.
Okay, that type of editing content presentation.
It makes the dopamine go really high,
and then the meltdown and the crash is hard.
So repetitive fast sound effects trigger
a really strong dopamine release in kids,
especially toddlers, developing brains.
And when the show is turned off, what often happens,
and listen, this is not me talking.
This is medical advice, and I know that,
you know, I certainly have a lot of conflicting
opinions about the American Academy of Pediatrics.
However, this is something that pediatricians will often,
and neuroscientists, will often
talk very frankly about,
because when shows like this are turned off, children then
can suddenly experience a drop in stimulation
and it leads to severe tantrums or zoning out
behaviors. And shows like this also can sometimes have
an impact on executive function because
research on fast-paced media suggests that even
a little bit of exposure can temporarily impair
executive function. Again,
we're talking about the brains of toddlers here. And the cognitive
skills required for impulsive control planning and self-regulation are
compromised.
You also have toddlers, if they're locked into content like this,
think about that. Not only toddlers, but kids and tweens and teens.
Real life suddenly becomes
very, very boring. The activities
that build values, knowledge, social skills.
Those activities used to be books,
trips to the grocery store, interaction with teachers,
with neighbors, with friends, school.
All of those things suddenly become very boring compared to the
colors and the pop-ups and the gamified content
that they're seeing on screen. So you have these
shows that have amassed eyeballs and audiences on YouTube.
Now being
Syndicated.
And distributed on Netflix, which we parents who grew up
in a certain age sometimes have a false sense of perception that,
oh, if it's on Netflix, that means it has gone through some type of.
Uh, the regulation, there have been guardrails in some way,
there has been a production team
to monitor the type of content that is good enough
to put on a massive streaming service.
No. So for the parent, the long and short of it is this,
for the parents like me,
who made the decision early on years ago to say no.
To YouTube kids content to avoid the brain damaging,
brain rot, quick cuts, and all the
vapid content that does nothing
but degrade the development of the young mind.
This kind of content is no longer just on YouTube.
And we wonder why kids now have zero ability to pay attention
and our classrooms are in chaos
because most American kids are clinically addicted
to programming that degrades the
biochemistry of their brains. These are the facts.
This is the data. I didn't make it up.
I am just the messenger reminding all of us. So these kids
For the most part, American kids now,
they're pretty much constantly going through withdrawals
because of all of the ongoing
and unfettered access to this type of gamified prank culture,
no narrative, and no values entertainment.
It's sad. Scientifically, it is brain damaging.
And this is a wake-up call, and dare I say a reckoning also,
for the parenting crisis in this
This country where.
Parents and educators, by the way,
now are replacing themselves with the screen because
it's a babysitting tool and the kids love it
and they scream if I take it away.
There's a reason why they're screaming
if you take it away, because their brains are
chemically addicted.
Wake up, parents!
There are options for kids shows that don't offer quick cuts,
that are slower paced, that don't rely on pop-up gamification,
that offer narrative storytelling,
are wholesome and good character building.
Oh, what's that? Did you hear? Did someone shout?
What kind of digital kids content might offer all
of those good things for the bits and pieces of time
when we want our children to enjoy
wholesome programming? Yes, we have Otto's Tales here at PragerU Kids.
We have Craftery here at
PragerU Kids. We have Leo and Lele here at PragerU Kids.
We have America's Favorite Music Show here
We're here at PragerUKids.
Have discernment, understand.
What your children are watching
and understand that there are no guardrails left.
Do not depend.
There's no more broadcast television left.
We already know that.
I say that as someone from a television media background.
There are no broadcast guardrails left
and there are no guardrails on Netflix, as we
can now see.
So we do have solutions.
And our solution for countering
and lessening the damage of all of this trendy content,
you guessed it, PragerU Kids.
Now, specifically, I just mentioned some of our shows,
but I am going to mention our book fair.
You can read books.
Let's go back to reading books with our kids.
Wholesome stories for our kids that reinforce our values,
gratitude for America in history, and good character.
And speaking of good, speaking of good.
I want to show you our book fair
that we have had for several months now.
Let's just roll some of the,
I think we have clips or pictures of our book fair in the wild.
That's right. This is the PragerU Kids book fair.
You can get one of these PragerU Kids book fairs that has stories
and books for children pre-kindergarten.
Through eighth grade, I believe there are some books in there
that also cater to the high school crowd.
I'm
Trailblazers of America, wonderful.
trying
You have stories about the expansion,
Western expansion of our frontier.
You have our Otto's Tales,
to
Otto's Tales book series about American history, landmarks,
figure
holidays, told through the eyes of Otto the puppy dog
and a little boy, Dennis Prager,
going on adventures around America.
it
Get your kids reading books.
out.
If you want them to watch all of the YouTube content
with the quick cuts and the dopamine
rises and crashes, that's your business.
Everyone can raise their kids as they see fit,
but if you are concerned about it, the best way,
in my opinion as a mom, is to read books.
Read books. Okay. Put the good back in kids' entertainment.
That's what we're trying to do.
And speaking of good,
I do have some good news about the U.S. Department of Education
trying to correct Illinois schools near the end of the show.
We're doing a little spotlight on
Illinois. I know a lot of times I spotlight
California because we're here in California,
but I'm going to spotlight Illinois
because there are a lot of things happening there.
But first, I have some disappointing news about Illinois schools.
Drop me a comment if you're from Illinois.
So in today's report of public schools lowering
the standards to feign success and growth,
we've talked about this before,
we've learned through an article that was recently published
on Chalkbeat.org that the state of Illinois' Department
of Education changed its school
rating system.
to deceive parents.
I don't know why I just whispered that, but I just did. So what does
this mean? What does this mean?
They changed their school rating system. Illinois is manipulating
their school rankings to make families
and taxpayers believe that they are improving in
some way. So what does this mean?
It means that the share of schools that received the highest rating
in Illinois jumped from 10% to 27% even though
only 39.2% of students met math proficiency
standards. We have some charts to help tell the full story.
So let's go ahead and bring up the
very first chart here. Here we go. Let's see.
Let's see. We got it. We got it. There we go.
Here we go, we got it.
Okay, so chart one.
It's showing.
Which Illinois schools, or how many Illinois schools,
are rated as exemplary?
So, more Illinois schools now earn the top rating.
And you can see in this chart that the percentage
of Illinois public schools that are classified as exemplary,
under the previous ranking system,
Only 10% of schools would have been classified as exemplary,
but they revamped their ranking system.
So now, as the chart shows, the new scale has 27%
of Illinois schools now being classified as exemplary.
Let's go to the next chart.
How many Illinois students meet academic standards?
Most Illinois students are not proficient in math.
This is not surprising, especially given the record of Chicago's union,
heavily unionized public school system.
So this chart that we're looking
at now shows statewide proficiency for 2026.
So fewer than four in 10 students met math proficiency standards.
39.2% of Illinois students are proficient in math.
39.2%, less than 40%.
55.4% of students are proficient
in English language arts, so about half.
48.7% are proficient in science, so less than half.
Not great numbers.
Not great numbers.
Let's go to the next chart.
If you're in Illinois, I want you to drop me a comment.
Tell me how things are on the ground.
Chart three, academic proficiency improved, but still remains low.
So Illinois proficiency
in 2025 versus 2026. So the blue is 2025, the green is 2026.
English, math, science all improved
a little bit. They improved by a smidge.
Math proficiency rose by only 0.8 percentage points.
So to recap all these things that I showed you,
the first chart showed that 27% of schools
now receive the highest rating,
but that's only because of a reconfiguration in how the
ratings were calculated.
And the second chart shows that only 39.2%
of students meet math proficiency standards.
So again, why am I sharing this with you?
It's all very technical and tedious, right?
But I'm sharing this with you as a reminder to unveil
and remind you how capable districts
and education departments have become about manipulating data
to trick parents into thinking
that the taxpayer-funded schools is working.
Lowering the standards we know now,
particularly in American schools, is common practice.
And parents don't even question it anymore.
And I don't think that parents, much less school boards,
even understand why it's happening
or understand that it is happening at all.
Pay attention.
Pay attention to the lowering of standards.
Don't just accept, oh, we've improved.
Don't accept the DEI talking points of, well,
we changed our curriculum to include everyone.
And I'm using a real school district as an example
that has done this the past few years.
The number one school district recently ranked in California.
I'll let you look it up.
But this particular school district removed
the classic literature like Shakespeare and Homer
and ancient authors that students used to be required to read
to gain a breadth of wisdom and knowledge outside of themselves.
Those types of books
and instructional materials have now been removed and replaced
with lowered standards of books from trendy authors
that happen to check a box of whether
they are Latino or Asian or Black
or some marginalized group that the DEI overlords
have identified. Do not be fooled. Back to Illinois. I digress.
Yes.
Back to Illinois. With Illinois,
they redesigned their rating system because a school's designation
includes more than test proficiency.
They wanted to increase, they wanted to make it look like
their exemplary ratings increased so that they can pass off that,
oh, these same schools
improved academically when in fact they didn't.
Have discernment.
Dig deeper than the surface facts of what you are fed.
Deception and lies at the cost of Americans' kids.
Deception and lies at the cost of American kids' education.
Okay, I do want to bring some good news from Illinois,
thanks to a grassroots organization called Awake Illinois.
I am not affiliated with them.
I'm just giving credit where credit is due here.
So let's go ahead and give you the background.
I'm going to give you the background on some of this good news
that will hopefully happen in Illinois soon.
The U.S. Department of Education is telling Illinois
Written parental consent is required, particularly for your surveys.
Here we go.
The background info on August 26th of this year,
2024, the U.S. Department of Education
Student Privacy Policy Office issued
a dear colleague letter reminding federally funded
schools that the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment requires.
Written parental consent before students are given surveys
or screenings that cover their mental or psychological problems
and other privacy-protected topics, and that the SPPO will treat
those instruments as required when school officials administer them,
even if the district labels them optional.
So in other words, an opt-out policy is not sufficient anymore.
to secure parental consent.
Let me repeat that to every single school district across the nation.
An opt-out policy is not sufficient
to secure parental consent when it comes to offering
minors surveys about mental health
or other private topics.
An opt-out, the department stated,
Is not written consent.
Okay, so the grassroots parent-led organization
Awake Illinois has known this for quite some time
and has drafted a model policy for school boards to adopt.
Now, true, they adopted the policy for Illinois school
because this is a parent organization, parent-founded,
parent-led in Illinois, so they drafted it for Illinois school,
but for the rest of the states around the country.
Name your state. California, New York, Arizona.
Name your state. Any state. Kansas, Wyoming,
Michigan. Take a look at Awake Illinois' opt-out model policy.
And I just have a one sheet for you
and you can find this on awakeillinois.org.
But let's go ahead and bring up the model policy.
So just take a look at how they have laid out what every parent
And school board can revise in their own district.
Flip to the next slide.
It was a one sheet that I wanted to share with you,
but we split it into two.
The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, I repeat,
requires parental consent for minors to be given student surveys
in classrooms regarding mental, psychological health.
Let's go to the comments.
Let's go to the comments.
Let's go to the comments for this episode.
All right, here we go.
Starting with the comments from the top of the show,
if you've been watching since the top of the show.
From YouTube, Netflix is trash.
I've been thinking about canceling it.
It's always the last streaming service I check out
for something to watch.
Another comment.
From YouTube, how different are some
of these YouTubers than reality trash TV stuff?
Good question.
Another comment from YouTube,
what age do you think is acceptable to allow kids on adult
YouTube without having to monitor every video?
Oh, this is so tough.
And I am grappling with this now because I do have teenagers.
I'm going to say this as a mom for several years now.
And this is not something you can do overnight.
For several years, I have been, metaphorically,
building my own home on the rock, right?
For everyone who's biblically literate,
build your house on the rock, right?
For several years, I have been instilling,
ingraining in my own kids the values
The morals, the moral obligation we have
to feed our minds with positivity and goodness
and wholesome materials, I have been really driving
that home with my family and with
my own kids.
And now that my kids are teens, of course they want Instagram.
Nobody has Instagram yet.
Of course they want Instagram.
Of course they would sit and watch YouTube endlessly if I
allowed them. But here's the approach I'm taking.
I will watch things with them. I will have fun
and comment between ourselves.
In a social setting, not online, I will discuss things with them.
We will laugh.
We will look up content.
We will laugh.
I will show them content that is funny, that is silly.
But I will also bring to them content that is questionable,
that is potentially harmful
to their minds or their spirit.
And I will watch it with them
and discuss with them what was good about it, what is
harmful about it, what the Bible commands us.
to do or how to think about things that are,
you know, infused into our lives that are,
you know, against what we know to be right and truthful and good.
And I talk about it with my
kids. And I think it is a slow drip, drip,
drip over time, over many, many years. And as teens
You know, we, I don't send my 14 or 16 year old.
Out into the world.
And not equipped to handle it.
And for me, the appropriate age to answer the YouTube question,
the appropriate age to allow kids
to watch content without monitoring it in some kind of way,
be it little or a big way, is when they move out and live on their own.
That's what I think right now as of today.
Don't know if that's the answer you wanted,
but that's what I think right now as of today.
And you can't protect your kids from anything, everything.
Of course, they see things.
They're going to see things without your consent,
without your knowledge, without your permission.
But as long as you really hunker down
and are intentional about talking with them, I think
that you're setting them up to walk the straight and narrow path.
Even if they veer off every so often, they'll always come back.
Raise up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22, 6.
My favorite Bible verse.
Okay, on to the comments, more comments.
From YouTube, again, books are the best.
Thank you, that was from Instagram.
Check out our PragerU Kids Book Fair to get at your school district
or elementary school or church or organization for wholesome books.
Books are the best.
Another comment from Instagram.
I'm from Illinois.
Thank you for the information.
You're so welcome.
I try to just do a quick overview.
I wish, and I say this not only
for the information I brought about Illinois, but whenever I
bring information about anywhere in the country, I really do.
only scrape the surface here on Parent Alert.
It's an alert. It's a, hey, FYI, did you know,
but I really am imploring you to dive deeper
and get the details yourself, wherever you are,
boots on the ground. It takes time.
It's exhausting. Nobody has time. I certainly
don't have time, but it is important.
And we really do need to pay much, much more attention
than what we've been doing the past several years.
I mean, my goodness,
look at how the country voted in the midterm elections this week.
That type of turning away from God does not happen
in two years or three years or six years.
It happens over a generation or more.
So we've collectively dropped the ball
in turning this nation towards God.
Towards truth, towards goodness,
towards appreciating America through our faults and stains.
And we have a lot of work to do to regain that.
And it's going to take another generation, which is difficult.
But we hopefully give you the tools here
at PragerU Kids to learn how to teach our children
to appreciate America and how to turn towards God
and towards the values that built this country.
So if only more students were educated about how
our system of government works so they grow up to
understand what small versus big government really means in real time,
that would be wonderful.
Okay, we do have a solution for that.
It's our last clip that I want to show you that I hope
will stay with you that is a teaser for something very,
very, very, very, very fun
that we're doing now that's happening now
at PragerU. Let's roll the clip.
My medical knowledge and my invention inspired Lord Ashley
to employ me as his personal physician.
Ashley was a powerful leader of the Whig political party,
which fought to limit the power of the king
so that the people could be free.
We became much more than doctor and patient. We became
trusted friends. Our friendship allowed me to learn
and observe Ashley's revolutionary
political philosophies, which largely became my own.
That was when I began to write. I put our ideals into the written word.
So, he was an influencer to you?
Oh, very much so. Ashley influenced me
with his beliefs on civil liberties,
Tolerance of religion and the rule of parliament.
Uh, could I get that in English, sir?
Uh, pardon?
Oh, sorry. Kid English, I mean.
Ah, well, in basic terms, a government that recognizes
and protects personal freedom for its citizens,
including their ability to practice their faith without threat.
This happens through a limited monarchy, which is the king and queen,
and a small elected government, which is parliament.
That sounds a lot like how our government started.
I guess it's gotten bigger since then, though.
Oh, tsk, tsk.
That is not good for a free people.
All right, so did you know who that figure was
in that episode of Leo and Layla's History Adventures?
If you guessed that that episode was about John Locke...
You were right. Congratulations. You know your history.
This episode playfully identifies
John Locke as one of the original influencers of America's founding.
And it teaches about
natural rights, social contract,
the consent of the people in an understandable way for
eight to 10 year olds.
And Leo and Layla is, of course, a series on PragerUKids.com that
You can watch for free in all episodes entirety on...
for free. You can watch it for free on PragerUKids.com.
It's for third through fifth
graders. And it is one of the episodes,
that episode that you watched is actually one of the
episodes that we have included in, drum roll please,
this is the big fun thing that we're
doing here at PragerUKids,
our Civics 101 challenge that is happening now. So here's
what we're doing. Civics 101 challenge.
You can sign up for free at PragerUKids.com. What it is,
is you get one email every day for 10 days
and in each email there are three episodes that are
dedicated to learning a single concept in civics
and those episodes are included in every email
and there's you know three different videos
for three different grade bands
three different ages of kids
so everyone in your family will learn the same civics concept
Every day, but through each age-appropriate video.
So that Leo and Layla episode that I showed you about John Locke
is one of the samples of the shows
that you will get delivered to your inbox
to learn about big versus small government,
consent of the people, the social contract,
and that was about John Locke.
So, again.
When we're talking about teaching
our kids how our system of government works,
what it means to have a big government,
what it means to have a small government,
what were the foundational values that America was founded on,
the Judeo-Christian values,
These are all very, very, very, very, very important.
This generation.
of young people growing now to learn so that we may protect,
defend, and conserve our American
values so that our nation can hopefully turn
more towards God. Civics 101. Sign up at
PragerUKids.com for free now for the next 10 days.
We are out of time.
We are out of time.
Thank you for being here with Parent Alert today.
Again, you can subscribe for free,
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to get lesson plans,
parent resources for teaching knowledge,
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People don't even know what cultural literacy is anymore,
which is disheartening.
Good morning.
And of course, resources and videos for appreciating America,
U.S. and world history, patriotism,
good character, civics, financial literacy.
We thank you for your support of PragerU Kids. We are a nonprofit.
We can't do any of this or make anything without you.
We've got a lot of work to do for this generation
in educating our kids, a lot of work to do.
And the links to all of our resources that I shared with you
in this episode are in the description wherever you're watching from.
I say this from the bottom of my heart today,
God bless you, Godspeed to all of us, and
thank you for watching Parent Alert.
See you next time.
