You ARE The Change We Need In The World
January 2024 Update: LKBK Steering Group, Pride events alert, Navigating the Journey resources, how one woman brought swift positive action
Belated Happy New Year from the team at Let Kids Be Kids! We have been quiet on purpose. Like everyone else needed a rest. We went from zero to intense in a couple of short months. We also hope families went offline and reconnected over the summer break. Being present is the best gift you could ever give your kids.
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LKBK Steering Group
LKBK looks like it’ll be around for a while, as we are focussed all areas that impact on the family unit and our kids, not only the gender ideology agenda. In early December the LKBK Steering Group spent two days together working through a very full agenda of plans we want to achieve over the next 6 months. If you want contact us, we’d love to hear from you. We’re all in this together, and as we get organised for 2024 we’ll send out invitations for assistance!
Our focus
Let Kids Be Kids focuses on:
Informing families (in an appealing and helpful way) on the most important topics related to our kids and our families.
Supporting those who are compelled to DO SOMETHING to protect their children. LKBK is all about empowerment.
Pride and alphabet genders 2024 calendar
At the time of publishing, the alphabet community are promoting 14 Events and 28 Days of significance (yes, almost a whole month’s worth) for their community in NZ. One might argue that this is for adults, not targetted at children and not of concern for parents. WRONG. Be very concerned. The first event on this calendar is a Melbourne Midsumma Festival and it’s promoting a Children’s Party.
TIP: Asking questions is one of the best ways to bring awareness and start conversations. Help raise awareness by following us on social media and sharing our posts. Twitter (X). Facebook. Rumble. Telegram. Tiktok.
Missing In Action: Navigating the Journey Resources And Courses!
We recently discovered that Navigating The Journey, the teaching resources promoted by the Minstry of Education for school teachers to use, to teach Relationship and Sexuality Education to children ages 5 - 15 seem to have been removed from the Family Planning website, along with the courses they run to teach the teachers.
This appears to be a positive move, however until we know for certain, we won’t be celebrating. More questions need to be asked. If anyone knows more, please contact us.
We have the power to bring positive change
Don’t ever think ‘what can I do, I’m just one person?’. On Jan 18 2024 an Australian woman, Melinda TankardReist, took to X (Twitter) (she has 10,000 followers) in response to an ad by fashion retailer H&M who were promoting girls school uniforms, in what might widely be consider to be extremely inappropriate. This is the ad:
Read her reply and the comments in full here, it’s a good lesson in how one’s approach matters. Melinda:
Responded with a considered message, rather than reacting angrily.
Asked a question.
Made a reasonable, balanced suggestion.
Why do we think this matters?
Consideration. Consider why you are posting. Are you having a rant? Are you bringing awareness to those who may not be aware? Are you invoking a reaction from someone? Are you trying to reach as many people as possible?
Consider your tone. It’s so easy to get fired up over these issues being thrown at our kids and family. But, comments that have an angry or aggressive tone are less likely to achieve helpful outcomes, and may even backfire. If you notice that your tone is sharp, go back to ponder why you are posting.
You are being monitored. (You may not care). Be truthful at all times, and do not be in fear… but if you name-call, provoke, antagonise or get into a combative conversation - it may damage trust in those who follow you. If you forward and post content that you haven’t source/fact checked, and it is later debunked, this reduces trust too.
Invite people to think, rather than tell people what to think
At Let Kids Be Kids we aim to post factual (with evidence) or ask questions - or both together. This way we invite the viewer to think, rather than telling them what to think, or our opinion/assumption/worst case scenario. It’s easy to jump to conclusions and react in the current state of things. I encourage you to notice your energy when you feel compelled to post, and be honest with yourself. Are you merely reacting in the moment? If the reason to post is to vent… perhaps step away from your device and do something that calms and centres you.
The outcome of Melinda’s action
