EDtalk LIVE with Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids

Hi Cam. Cam is on audio only today. He is here. How are you all? Jill Simonian here with PragerU Kids. I gotta admit it's been a while since I've gone live. I usually love to bring you all of the recent headlines and travesties and tragedies that are happening inside our public school and private school classrooms and how it's affecting our kids. Today's really hard to go live though. I'm not gonna lie Cam. Cam knows this full disclosure. I had a big struggle about whether or not I was gonna go live today because of the tragedy in Nashville. It's a tragedy at a Christian school and you know I usually on a personal level I really don't like to react to these things right away because I prefer to process it without jumping to the gun. No pun intended there. Don't pounce on me for that okay. I really don't like to react to these things right away because they're tragic and there were innocent souls that were killed and it's just I cannot as a parent I don't want to get emotional Cam but it is very very hard to process the more that these tragedies senseless tragedies happen. Thank God for the heroes. God bless the police officers that were there and as a mom I know we are going to be talking about PragerU kids and what PragerU kids is doing to try and make this crazy crazy world a little bit better despite these tragedies that happen like this in Nashville but as a mom I'm gonna I'm gonna go so far as to say something that a lot of you might pounce on me for. This is not a gun issue. This is a child raising issue. The tragedy that happened. This is a parenting problem across the country. This is a child raising problem across our country. Our children are being poisoned against morality against faith against virtue. Too many of them are growing up to be confused. This was a Christian school by many reports. This was a targeted attack. This is the awful tragedy and I'm not getting emotional but this is what happens when a society continues to abandon morality and if you are in the comments if you are in the Tennessee area I pray for you. My heart goes out to you and you know I this shouldn't even be solely for people in the Tennessee area. I am praying for all of us. All of our hearts are broken whenever reasonable parents see news like this especially happening at our schools with innocent children but here's the fact of the matter. This is what happens when a society completely abandons morality and this has been happening for decades upon decades upon decades and schools this is hard to say but schools most schools across this country are no longer a moral place and most schools across this country do not recognize right from wrong. They do not recognize good from evil. It's an anything goes mentality. Instead our schools many of our schools because I don't want to vilify all schools I know that there are countless good teachers in many of our public and private schools who are trying to hold the line and trying to maintain a sense of right and wrong in in raising children with virtue in raising children with morality alongside parents but but what happens when decade after decade you continue to tell children that they are victims if they are of a certain oppressed class if they happen to not fit in if they happen to be a little bit confused about themselves and their bodies as as preteens and adolescents if you continue to tell children to confuse children without boundaries of what is right or wrong what is truthful and what is lies and what is what is good and what is evil this is the society that we get and this is the society that we're living in and I say this as a mother of of two young kids and and I'm constantly terrified constantly terrified like many of you parents that are watching let me know where you're where you're watching from or where you're listening from in the comments this mentality this victim mentality this confused mentality that it bleeds out of our schools and into our communities and into our workplaces and into the fabric of our country and then we find ourselves in places like this where we are dealing with tragedies over and over and over again in our schools and I really don't know how else to absorb this anymore cam what are people in the comments saying if you're if you're able to have sound yes uh so one person says no one should be surprised this is what happens when you leave god out of your lives um i want to i i know that's only one comment but i do want to right there right there who was that person god bless you this is what happens when a society abandons god and pushes god as far away from our young people by prohibiting the mention of god in many schools this is what happens this is what happens continue sorry cam i completely interrupted you i just want to hear a comment because i know that there's a lot of debate right now everyone's hopping on the gun issue gun issue gun issue and and i'm here as a mom to say this is not a gun issue personally i am saying that this is not a gun issue this is a parenting issue this is a child raising issue this is a a a where is the morality of right and wrong in our society and in our schools issue manifesting yet again any more comments uh most of them seem like it's just people saying uh where they're watching from yes where people are watching from one person says wichita kansas another person says waterford california across the country welcome welcome welcome well um we are here in california in the belly of the beast as we as you most of you know um i am jill simonian if you're just tuning in i am one of the personalities and creators of our prager you kids content which we continue to uh which we continue to create with the goal of raising children with virtue and giving parents the tools they need the tools that you all need to give your children wholesome shows and education to watch and absorb to learn about truth and freedom and responsibility and right and wrong and and living according to the standards that god put us on this earth for to be able to be free right um you know as a mom i always whenever a tragedy happens like this in nashville i always go to the place of how am i going to talk to my kids about this and for all of you parents that are listening there's always that question how do i talk to my kids about this oh my goodness how do i how do i teach my children you know how do how do i um comfort my children through this and here's an answer for you and i'm gonna go you know before i started working at prager you i actually worked for mainstream media doing parenting segments giving parenting advice um through a pop culture lens and one of the things that i would always always always talk about during my parenting segments when a tragedy like this happened how can we talk to your kids about it and here's the answer if your child is small you don't you don't talk to your children about a tragedy like this if your children are small you protect your children's innocence this if this did not happen in your community your child does not need to know about this event if they are small protect our children there is such a thing as too young too young to talk about things like this and and one of the problems you know i've i've really noticed as a as a parent and as a mom with kids that we that were formerly in the public school system i've since pulled them out um public schools always jump on this bandwagon of we need to talk to the children we need to talk to the children and you have teachers talking to very very young children in sometimes age inappropriate ways for the sake of reacting to something that immediately just happened a tragedy in the news that quite frankly young children should not know about um as far as kids that are tweens my kids are tweens and i as a parent here's what i tell my kids when tragedies like this happen i tell my kids first of all you are safe you are safe you are my child we are here we are safe we pray for the victims we pray for their families we thank god and continue to pray for the law enforcement officers who continue to deal with these situations we pray for the protection and safety but here's the next thing i tell my kids there are a lot of confused people in this world and i'm not going to get into the details of who this shooter was and how they identified and what their tragedy was because there there there was evidently by all evidence a severe mental health tragedy that was going on with this individual who chose to take the lives of innocent people but i tell my children there are a lot of confused people in this world and you stay away from confusion and that is the unfiltered truth you stay away from confusion you are safe i am your parent i will protect you i am here for you with whatever you need i will answer any and all questions you have in a truthful and age-appropriate way and i do when my when my kids ask me questions but i continue to remind them stay away from confusion whether that confusion is delivered by a woke educator in a school whether that confusion is delivered by a coach or an instructor or a tutor and i'm talking about all these things happening in our schools now from dei to transgender ideology that were designed to divide and confuse our children i tell my children stay away from confusion as a parent i will protect you and this includes our parenting duties this includes teaching our kids what is truthful what is right and what is wrong and not being ashamed about it this is our responsibility as parents at the very top of this live i did say that this is a parenting problem the continued tragedies that are happening in our schools shootings included like nashville is a parenting problem it is rooted in too many parents not paying attention to what is going on with their kids not paying attention to to to addressing what needs to be fulfilled in their children in a truthful way and this is this is it is awful and it is tragic and we are going to continue to find ourselves in this situation if we do not course correct this parenting problem and this child raising problem that is happening with our children and yes too many educators are propelling it and that's my opinion as a mom take it or leave it cam do we have any more comments that we can share this was a parenting pep talk my heart is broken and i think you know any parent who's watching i just i i can't say that enough because this is tragic i'm not going to get emotional becky watward from uh or well becky watward says that she's with you you're so right um we have a lot of people saying um like where they're from still okay uh deborah man says amen she's from upstate new york and she's tuning into the live um marie taylor says that she's praying with you um it seems like a lot of uh a lot of prayers a lot of people saying where they're from yeah a lot of people agreeing okay well thank you for all of you who are just tuning in across the country you know i usually uh do these facebook parent lives um we're starting to call them ed talk short for education talk um i you know periodically i will come on facebook and youtube and i will do these little um uh chats with you so to speak to just really reveal what's happening inside of our schools and many times i have people email me things that are happening at their schools that they want to expose um such as different curriculum different teacher directives we have a lot of teachers that are our friends at prager u kids and we love the teachers who are really trying to maintain um an education of truth for our children and so these lives are usually instructionals and um uh i don't want to say exposés but revelate revelations about what what is happening inside of our schools this live today is a little different because you know you can't really you can't neglect that this tragedy is happening and um you can't neglect the root cause of it and um you know i just i i just mentioned how you know what we can do as parents how we can talk to our kids you're just joining us rewind it back and see what i said about talking to our kids about things like this but i'm gonna keep moving forward and go one step further and to say the thing that we can do in our households uh who is it that jordan peterson often says to change the world you take care of what is happening in your household first and i'm a firm believer in that to change the world it's our responsibility as parents to take care of our children and to educate them in truth and that is our mission at prager u kids that's why we started building and creating shows for kindergarten through 12th graders literally one year ago um no sorry literally two years ago last year was our one year uh birthday for prager u kids and we are two years in we have almost almost 250 episodes for kindergartners through high school free free free i'll say that as many times as i need to on our website pragerukids.com free for you to subscribe to get them delivered to your email inbox it's education in an entertaining way to give our children nutritious content for their brains so that they can be raised with an understanding of what responsibility is of what morality is about freedom about equality under god about respecting each other as human beings but also not being afraid to recognize what is truthful and what is not because that's the battle that we continue to fight and the battle between truthful and lies good and evil is what continues to drive with tragedies senseless tragedies that are happening in our communities and in our schools right now i'm just going to take you to on our website here we go pragerukids.com there we go nourish your child's character nourish your child's mind nourish your child's values and the values include respecting each other kids shows you can trust oh look there's me otto's tales craftery street smarts guess or mess these are all of our shows that we've created based in history and american values i'm going to take you to our oops there we go can't scroll back can't scroll back i'm going to take you to our latest episode this happens to be for kindergartners our otto's tales story time our latest episode is all about the liberty bell and these are the types of shows that our youngest children should be watching these are the types of stories that our youngest children should be learning not stories about if grandpa is non-binary or not that's a real book honest to goodness somebody sent it to me and i have yet to verify it that it is uh that is it is a book that was in fact read in a classroom recently here in southern california which is why i didn't share it for you but there are books that are divisive and confusing to children and it's driving it's it's those are the foundational building blocks for the types of tragedies that we see happening in our schools um let's take a look let's take a listen here we go oh there otto's tales there i am this is the innocent stuff that our kids need to be watching i'm jill there's otto there's smidge they're playing tricks on me i have a feeling that's you we're gonna leap into the story in just a moment i'm jill and today uh you lots of funny stuff these two are unbelievable that's right let me skip ahead let me skip ahead and show you some of our animation golden bell she smoothed down her poofy fur my friend fluffy just got one and it's so pretty everyone tells her how sophisticated she looks i know there's a young dennis prager really big bell dennis and they get the idea to go visit the liberty bell and i'll just pause it right there i'm not going to make you watch a kids show but it's something to share with your kindergarteners first second graders maybe third graders truth be told my fifth grader actually likes these a lot still uh but these are the types of shows that we're creating at prager you kids to nourish our kids brains to build them a foundation for values for living by values and living by morality and um that's going to wrap up our live today i just um i wanted to say hello to all the parents i wanted to extend my i hate saying thoughts and prayers because it's become so cliche and it's that phrase thoughts and prayers has a bad rap but i wanted to extend my heart i'll say that i wanted to extend my heart today to all of the parents out there who are wondering what the heck is happening and why does this continue to happen because it's not i'm not going to blame it on the thing that the media blames it on i'm blaming it as a mother on the root cause and that is that we have abandoned morality too much in our country and that's where we're at um any final comments cam not for me okay you hit everything pretty well okay thank you thank you thank you join us at pragerukids.com to take care of your own household to raise your children in a way where they will not be confused where they will know right from wrong where they will know good from evil join us at pragerukids.com and our hearts are with everyone right now bye guys until next time