Parent Alert! Traumatized Teen TV, School Screen Limits, ACLU Copies PragerU?

Today is April 29th, 2026. This week we ask big questions. Are TV shows for teens actually traumatizing them? We ask are Los Angeles Unified School District's forthcoming new screen restrictions during class time a good thing or a bad thing? And finally, but most importantly, we ask is the American Civil Liberties Union copying PragerU? We're going to talk about it. Let's talk about it right now on Parent Alert. If I had a photo of you in Mexico, would you say it wasn't you? I'd have to see the photo then. So it's a hypothetical. So you guys can lie to me, but I can't lie to you. I have a really cool opportunity. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. I believe everything happens for a reason. This is something about your look. Brandon has got 20 million followers. The goal is simple. Get him to post a video of you looking hot. You got that look in your eye like a rat trying to figure out where it's going to go next. Am I a perfect little guy? How you want to deal with this? Five. Has your friend lost their mind? One. Euphoria. HBO Max. That's right. If you don't yet know about the show Euphoria on HBO Max, drug addiction, sex, trauma, relationships, and identity in a digital world, parents, wake up. The new season just premiered. And yes, your teen, unfortunately, might be obsessed with it unbeknownst to you. Buckle up. We're going to talk about it today. But before that, we have formalities. Welcome to Parent Alert. I'm Jill Simonian from PragerU Kids. We are here every Wednesday, 10.30 a.m. Pacific time on PragerU's Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and X. And of course, I'm always beholden to mention that later this episode will be on our website over at PragerU.com. So if you're tuning in later, if you're not watching live, check it out on our website. Drop me a comment first and foremost. Tell me where you're watching from or listening from if you're live with us here today. And if you haven't already subscribed, PragerUKids.com. PragerUKids.com. Free, educational, and entertaining short videos and lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade. There's no paywall. There's no membership. There's no nothing. Everything is on PragerUKids.com. Full transparency to watch in full, to download our books and read in full, history, civics, good character, financial literacy, and much, much more. And we, ladies and gentlemen, are the polar opposite of our first discussion topic for today, euphoria on HBO. So some describe this series. If you haven't heard of this, I'm obligated to say you're probably living under a rock. Okay, so everybody knows something about this show. It's been around for, I think, gosh, technically six years now. Some describe this series as fictional stories of addiction and all-American depravity. Some describe it as toxic. Some describe it as luridly exploiting teen soap. Is it traumatizing teens? That's what we ask here today. That's what I ask. The stars are former Disney star Zendaya, who is supremely talented. She stars in Euphoria as a mentally ill teen with a severe drug problem, to say the least. And we also have one of the stars in here, current, I call her conservative sweetheart, Sydney Sweeney. And she plays a young woman who continues to subject herself to all kinds of sexual exploitation. This is an adult show, okay? Season one started. Just to give you a little bit of backup, drop a comment if you watch it. I'm not judging. Listen, I'm an adult. If we're watching, I'm assuming that we're all adults here, we can watch what we are curious to watch. But I want to talk about this, okay? So Euphoria debuted, season one debuted back in June of 2019. So it's been around for a while. They then had some special episodes in 2020 and 2021. Season two premiered in 2022. Season three is now making the rounds, April 2026. So it's been around for a long time, but kind of like stopped starting in terms of like the seasons and stuff. So I've been looking, I have not, full disclosure, my producer, who's an adult, watches this show. I have not watched this show. I've been learning a little bit about this show more and more through the trailers and various clips of episodes and things like that. But full disclosure, I have not watched the whole show. So talk to me and drop me comments. I did read an article from The Independent online and it cites this. Show creator Sam Levinson may have been running through a laundry list of old Jerry Springer topics, kids out of control, porn sick junkies, trans teens and trans fetishes collide. But he had created something undeniably alluring. Shameful but true. Euphoria was a phenomenon second only to Game of Thrones in HBO's most watched rankings by the launch of its second season in 2022. And inhaled by an army of, for the most part, young people, more than happy to give into its sleazy charm. Designed to infuriate and horrify and turn on, Euphoria got the job done. So let's take a quick look at a clip from a previous season. Again, the purpose of me including this on Parent Alert today is to make us aware, to alert all of us parents about what's on our, probably most of our television screens. Let's take a clip, let's take a look at a clip from one of the first seasons of Euphoria right now. Now, there's a few ways to beat drug tests. The first is simple, stop doing drugs. But if you're in a bind and totally... Option one, niacin. It's a B vitamin that like breaks down fat and chemicals or whatever, and if you take a lot of it, like 2,000 milligrams, and shed a few gallons of water, you can flush your system in two to three days. The only problem is it has a few side effects. Skin flushing, extreme dizziness, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, and sometimes death. I don't recommend it, nor does any legit drug site on the internet. Option two, synthetic urine. Yeah, right. Option three, get a non-drug addict friend who is for you. Okay, so this was allegedly Zendaya's character in high school. I believe, producer, correct me if I'm wrong, but this, her character was in high school. And this was ahead of season two, which was back in 2022. And back then, the Parents Television and Media Council issued a stark warning to parents, and even launched a petition asking HBO to halt the series, calling it dark, depraved, degenerate, and nihilistic, and noting that it poses an imminent threat to the health and well-being of children. And many, on the other side of the coin, defend this series, saying, hey, this is groundbreaking, the style in which it's shot, the topics in which it, you know, broaches. It's really made for mature audiences to watch. It's not made for teens, and it's actually based on the creator, Sam Levinson's experience as a teen addict himself. Here's my take. It's not okay for teens to watch this. Everyone needs to wake up. It is not okay for teens to watch this. And again, I say this as an adult, who, in my own viewing history, has watched some pretty salacious stuff, okay? It's also not okay for all of us adults and parents to be so nonchalant about watching it. Yeah, absolutely, adults, we can watch it if we want to. But if this kind of show, when watching it, doesn't kind of, doesn't disturb you, doesn't faze you, if you're not, like, put off and, like, kind of feel icky and gross in some way, I personally think you need to do some work. There was once a time when child care professionals, including licensed medical doctors and therapists and teachers and educators, there was once a time when those type of pillars in our society would warn parents that watching or reading sexually explicit materials would actually change the brain chemistry to clinically traumatize young minds. There was a time when medical professionals would say, kids should not be watching things about explicit drug use, about explicit sexual abuse, because it will change the brain chemistry of your child and it will clinically traumatize them. So what happened to that? Everything now is just inclusive, quote unquote, and it's, you know, shared for understanding so that we can all understand each other better and go through No! Be fooled. Do not be fooled. Today's twisted definitions about what's inclusive and understanding can now break your brain and traumatize your young adult teenager, if you're not careful. Not my kids. Not your kids either, I hope. We have to return to understanding the difference between putting something good in our minds and putting something destructive in our minds. And what we watch really does shape us and form who we are on the inside. And what our kids watch shape them and form who they are on the inside. I mean, my teens ask all kinds of questions. They asked about this show actually not too long ago, which was interesting when this new season premiered. And my producer and I were talking about it saying, hey, should we share it? And I go, yeah, actually, because my teens, just from chatter or, you know, whatever that my younger teen actually said, hey, mom, what is what's that show Euphoria? And I looked and I said, absolutely not. Absolutely not. I said, you will be traumatized. I guarantee it. Trust me on this one. And I say, no, my kids ask all kinds of questions about things that are popular right now. Well, it's on Netflix. It's on HBO. It's on Apple. It's on Hulu. No, it doesn't matter what it's on. I don't care if you find it on the Disney channel and it's something that, you know, I know is going to break your brain. No, no, no. I say no. And this goes for YouTube garbage. This goes for social media garbage. This goes for TikTok. Protect your mind. That is something that I think has been lost, particularly in the past decade, when it comes to all of us trying to raise our kids. Teach our children to protect the most important parts of themselves, which are your mind. Protect your mind. Protect your soul. Protect your body. Which leads me to something I never thought I'd say. Applause for the Los Angeles Unified School District. What? Has health frozen over? Stick with me. I haven't gone mad. Let me know what you what your thoughts are about euphoria. My humble, you know, you come here for parent alerts. Don't let your kids watch that junk. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it's popular. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Return to standards. Return to basics. Start filtering and vetting what goes into our children's Okay, back to me applauding the Los Angeles Unified School District. Recent headline in educationweek.com. Nation's second largest school district moves to limit student screen use. LAUSD screen limits are the first now in the nation for a major school district. They will be implementing these screen limits soon. The article from Education Week reads, I'm going to share it with you. The second largest school district in the country will scale back classroom screen use under a resolution the Los Angeles Board of Education has approved unanimously. The resolution requires the district to develop a screen time policy for implementation in the 26-27 school year. It should include maximum in-school screen time limits by grade level, eliminating student use of digital devices for early education through the first grade, and prohibiting student-led use, good, of YouTube or other video streaming platforms. And the move comes more than a year after a group of Los Angeles school district parents, teachers, and students began pushing for more intentional, less passive technology use in classrooms. The coalition raised concerns about how excessive amounts of screen time can harm students' academic performance as well as their physical, social, emotional, and mental health. And in fact, I, you know, as a side note, I, if you're on Instagram, I am a personal fan of an account called Scrolling to Death. So scrolling, let me spell for you, S-C-R-O-L-L-I-N-G, the number two death, D-E-A-T-H. Did I spell it right? Yes, I spelled it right. Scrolling to Death. Check out this account. It is led by a mom who used to be an executive, I believe, at one of the social media companies many, many years ago. She has now dedicated this platform, which has just exploded in the past few years, about educating parents how these, how screen time in classroom, I mean, she educates parents and teachers about social media use, obviously, and the harms and dangerous effects on that. And she's involved in a lot of lawsuits, but she's also involved in the lawsuit right now that is aiming to hold schools accountable for the data breaches and the, you know, breach of privacy when it comes to students using screens in the classrooms, the type of apps that are used for ed tech, educational purposes, and how all of these things are very much compromised, and how it's damaging to kids, and how it doesn't add to education. Anyway, look up the account. It's fantastic. Going back to Los Angeles Unified School District, a parent coalition called Schools Beyond Screens advocated for this resolution to limit the screen use inside the classrooms, and they applauded the April 21st passage of this measure that will go into effect in the fall of 2026. And let's bring up the quote right now. Parents, excuse me, Schools Beyond Screens says, the board, Los Angeles Unified School District board, has clearly signaled at the beginning of a new era. Now is the time for safe and science-backed approach to classroom and technology, one that is not guided by big tech talking points. The group said this in a press release. So science-backed approach, yes, yay, applause. This is a good thing, but I'm going to go on my little rant later. Right now, let's bring up the graph. We're going to bring up the graph from the article. We're going to rant later. Give you the goods first, rant later. Okay, so this is one of the survey graphs in the Ed Week article, and it's titled, in your view, what kind of impact does your students' use of technology for school-related purposes have on the following? And it lists, if you're watching right now, it lists all these about social skills and mental health and learning engagement and mastering and attendance and all this stuff. The source of the data from this survey that you're looking at is the Ed Week Research Center, nationally representative from February through March 2026. It was a survey that was taken during that time, and the survey was taken with 79 district leaders, which consisted, excuse me, the survey was taken from 79 district leaders, 122 principals, and 395 teachers, so roughly a little bit over 500 people. Okay, not that large of a sampling. The majority, according to the graph, think that screens affect social skills and mental health more negatively. Are we surprised? No. The majority think that learning engagement and mastering content, they perceive learning engagement and mastering content as being positively affected by screens. I would have voted I'd taken this survey. Bottom line, anyone in LAUSD, drop a comment, tell me what you think. The bottom line, my personal take, I think this is great news. My frustration is that, my frustration is why did it take this long for parents and teachers to admit that the root cause, one of the root causes for so many of these, you know, issues that have been degrading education, like, you know, behavior problems in the classroom, lacking academic proficiency levels, student-to-student interactions, why did it take so long for everyone to just have a common sense knowledge of, yes, part of the many problems and the reasons why education has degraded so much is because we opened the door and allowed screens to take over educational instruction. There is a place for screens. Hello, we create educational content that gives teachers turnkey videos in five to ten minute, you know, length durations about history and civics to use in the classroom. There is a place for technology in the classroom. There is a place to play the video and then discuss it and use a worksheet and a lesson plan. There is a place for screens, but you have to use screens strategically in the classroom. You cannot forfeit all educational instruction to screens. It doesn't work. Use the screen time, the videos, as a reinforcer from subject to subject. Use it to, you know, bring, use it as a refresher to reinforce knowledge, to check for understanding. For young learners, in my personal opinion and based on experience and evidence, no screens should be available in classrooms sixth grade and below. Zero. Zero, zero, zero. Get back to books. High school, some screens. Strategically, few and far between. Absolutely no phones in the classroom. Absolutely no phones in the classroom. You know what, most public high schools, I'm going to digress for a bit. Drop a comment. At most public high schools, I've seen it with my own eyes and I have parents who are friends inform me that this goes on and I have teachers who are friends inform me that this goes on. Kids will wear earbuds, have their phone on their desk, and also have their work on their desk. What sense does that make? I am not a credential teacher, but I'm a parent and I know that that does not add up to educational value when you've got earbuds in your ear and a cell phone on your desk and you can ping your friends back and forth and text. It's distracting and it's literally ruining a child's ability to focus. We have to admit and I am, no one is more surprised to be happy with the Los Angeles Unified School District on this particular topic than me. We have to admit how screens damage the brain for young people, particularly under the age of 25 before the frontal cortex is developed. I won't get into the science. If anyone remembers back in 2017, 60 Minutes did a whole special, this is almost 10 years ago now, I was shouting about the perils of screens and social media and the damage it does to teenage minds back then. No one was listening, so we're 10 years later down the line, but back then 60 Minutes did an interview with scientists that had run MRI tests and all sorts of brain scans on teenagers and they said that the screen time gamification for teens on social media and screens and phones and the screen time, that type of screen time gamification showed an equivalent to a teenage brain high on cocaine and it took 10 years for everyone to admit that. I wonder what's happening in our education system. Why are kids not learning? Why are kids not proficient? Probably because we offloaded most of the education instruction to screens. The only downside I see with this is, and drop a comment if you agree, if phones are not allowed in the classroom anymore, which is a good thing overall, I'm gonna stick by it, but if they're not allowed in the classroom anymore, how will students and teachers be able to report compromised or age-inappropriate education to be held accountable? And I think you all know what I'm talking about. So there's something there. Tell me what you think and I'll share with you something now that I do think should be in every single classroom. Who can guess what it is? Our PragerU Kids Book Fair. Book Fair. Yes. Okay, let's bring up my little video. I was a videographer the other day, guys, here in the office. Take a look at my brilliant video that I took on my cell phone of our PragerU Kids Book Fair. We test piloted this thing back in December. We did a soft launch a few years ago with some selected schools that submitted an application to get these onto their campus. We are very excited about this book fair. And you know what the funny thing, side note in this video, so this display is in our office. It stands about, oh, almost as tall as me. I'm 5'4". It's about four and a half feet tall. It has, and there's actually three parts of the book fair because we have, in our total book fair, 16 book titles. And it's our, you know, it's our Otto's Tales books that are included, the hard copies, you know. But in this book fair, I realized when I shot the video that I did not put the actual books into the slots. So when you're looking at it, just know this kit can be sent to you. You can order this kit outright on PragerUKids.com. You can, you can purchase it. You can order it outright. It's delivered to you in a box. You put the, all the cardboard pieces, everything is sent to you. You put everything together. It's pretty easy. It has hard copies of books included so that kids can look at the titles and then flip through and parents can see in full transparency what the whole book is about, what everything is about. And then it has a QR code for you to order the book directly from Amazon. It is very, very similar. It's a similar model to how the scholastic book fairs are operated these days, except there's no age-inappropriate books here. There's nothing that has to do with gender ideology. There's no stupid dumb toys to dilute and water down the love of literacy and the importance of reading. Most of our books in this book fair are for younger learners. We do have our chapter book, our novel, The Tip-Off, included in this. We do have our Trailblazers of America series, which is for middle schoolers about westward expansion included in this. We do have our financial literacy workbook included in this book fair, which is ultimately for tweens and teens, high schoolers. And you can order this book fair from PragerUKids.com slash book hyphen fair. 16 titles plus the kit with the QR codes sent to you. You put it up at your school, you put it up at your library, your church, your organization, your homeschool co-op, anything. And it's there for you because as much as we love video digital content, we have a severe literacy crisis in this country. Across the board, I don't care what school you go to. And if you follow Jonathan Haidt on Instagram, I'm a big fan of his, by the way. If you follow him, he has more and more been talking about how kids' brains are being broken more and more because they're not reading books. And this is not new knowledge. This is all common sense. This is wisdom that has endured for decades and centuries. And we already know this. And then it's like everyone's surprised. What? Oh, yes. We need to return to books. It was a mistake to put screens in the classroom. Wake up. Yes, we know. Told you so. Okay. So let's get to our final headline for today. Well, this is from another article. This is our favorite article. This is our favorite article this week. And it's also from Education Week. I guess we're featuring Education Week in this week's Parent Alert. So the headline from Education Week is, it's a good one. Buckle up. The ACLU is making videos for the classroom telling students know your rights. They could be a counterweight to popular conservative leaning videos. Dun, dun, dun. I will give you one guess what the popular conservative leaning videos are according to the title in Ed Week. It's all of us here at Pregnant Kids, right? So we saw this article. We were overjoyed and we just smiled and laughed. Here's a bit of the article to bring you up to speed what the ACLU is now doing. Introducing American Civil Liberties Union's Know Your Rights University. It's literally called Know Your Rights University. Civil rights and freedoms lessons taught early for kids. And the article reads, a new series of educational videos invites kids to push back against ongoing attempts to ban or remove books in classrooms and libraries across the country. Go back to a previous Parent Alert episode when I talk about who's really trying to ban books because guess what? Our books are frowned upon when we want to include them in a variety of public schools. So let's talk about who's banning books. But anyways, back to the Ed Week article. Continuing on, the videos from the American Civil Liberties Union teach kids about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, which decided that students maintain some First Amendment rights in free speech in schools. They argue that book bans represent censorship that limits speech and they introduce students to the concept of advocacy groups and non-governmental organizations. Let's take a quick look right now at a very quick clip of this episode from the ACLU. You see, back in the late 1960s, a group of students in Des Moines, Iowa. Wait, I know this. What case was that again? Winkler. Blinker. Thinker? Tinker. Tinker v. Des Moines. That's the one. We talked about this last year. That was the case where students wore black armbands with peace signs to protest the Vietnam War. They were suspended, right? Good memory, Erin. Mary Beth Tinker, her brother, and three other students were suspended for wearing armbands as protest. They filed a lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The court decided that students don't lose their rights to free speech or expression at school. Precisely. And students can't be disciplined more harshly just because of the message of what they're expressing. Okay, so that was a little quick clip of the Know Your Rights University. We'll talk about it in a second, but I want to share more of the Education Week article about this new ACLU venture with you. And it says, quote, Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said, to my reading, it's clearly a response to what Prager U is doing. And then it goes on to describe us as perhaps the buzziest name in edutainment right now. The conservative media company Prager U has spent the last few years trying to break into the school market. Its videos on social studies topics, free to access online, promote what it says are pro-American and Judeo-Christian values. As of this year, according to the company, its content is an approved resource in at least 11 states. Side note from me to you, 11 states and counting. We've got more announcements about expanding into new states soon, but I can't tell you yet or else I'll get in trouble. Lips are zipped until summertime. Okay, moving on with the article. Prager U has stirred controversy with many historians saying the videos mischaracterize important people and events to argue political points or inculcate conservative values. Side note from me to you, except we can get all the accusations in the world, except people fail to understand or acknowledge, no matter how many times I've said it and how many times our team has said it, we at Prager U have credentialed teachers, credentialed teachers, licensed credentialed teachers and historians with master's degrees in history who also, one of them also happened to be a high school history teacher in public schools in a few different states, writing our content. So when we're accused of mischaracterizing things, our response is facts. We have credentialed teachers and educators with master's degree in history who also taught high school history classes in a variety of states across the nation writing our content. Moving on with the article, Ed Weeks says, Prager U videos take right-wing positions on hot-button political issues, for instance, advocating traditional gender roles and looking skeptically on climate change. My response from me to you, encouraging boys to be happy and content with themselves if they want to run around, if they want to be, you know, masculine and strong and allowing girls to feel feminine or dress girly or want to become a mom when they grow up, affirming girls who might feel, you know, who might feel, get bullied for wanting to become a mom, that's actually inclusive. And in addition, questioning narratives and directives from elites, whether it's about climate change or government or any a variety of topics, is actually very patriotic. Here I go with the America 250 reminder. Our founders questioned their overlords, so to speak, in Great Britain in the name of free and independent thought. So yes, encouraging kids to ask questions and discuss topics that are very complicated, like the climate, is actually very patriotic and all-American, and it's a walking the walk of teaching kids how to think critically. Back to Ed Weeks' article, the ACLU's head of marketing channels, Emily Patterson, denied that the ACLU's new series was a response to PragerU's content. Though, of course, quote she added, we are aware of their programming. You just ripped off our catchy university you name, and you're saying, oh, it's really not, the ACLU's new series in schools is literally called Know Your Rights University. So I wonder if the media now will shout how the ACLU is not accredited and not a real university. I'm getting way too happy about this, you guys, because it's just, indeed, Patterson said, the head of ACLU's marketing channels, she said the goal of the videos is to emphasize students to acknowledge the power of their own voice. Kids might watch the videos and then ask questions that would prompt parents to look more closely at a sample ballot or speak out at a school board meeting, she said. So then, ACLU, the goal is to politicize students and families, because our goal here at PragerU is to learn history, to gain knowledge, to understand context of information as it applies to the founding of our nation and the current state of our nation. Let's meet one of the people behind ACLU's Know Your Rights University. First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects our right to speak and write freely, but did you know it also protects your right to express yourself without using words at all? That's called symbolic speech or when we express ideas through symbols or actions. We also talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, a famous First Amendment lawsuit that dealt with the idea of symbolic speech and freedom of expression in school. In the 1960s, a group of students were sent home for wearing black armbands in school in protest of the Vietnam War. These students were expressing their feelings against the war without using any words, an act of symbolic speech you could say, but the school district didn't agree and those students were suspended. Tinker v. Des Moines brought up an interesting question. Do students have a right to express themselves at school or does the school get to set certain limits during a school day? In the end, the argument was settled by the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. They ruled that no one loses their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression even at the schoolhouse gates, as long as that speech doesn't interrupt school or interfere with the rights of others. In a democracy like ours, we the people have power and rights, like the right to freely express ourselves, and the more we know about our rights, the more we could use them. So be sure to watch me, Aaron, and Lisa on our next KYRU Adventures, and never forget, you gotta know, you gotta know, you gotta know your rights, you gotta know, you gotta know, you gotta know. You gotta know your rights regarding freedom of expression. Yes, we actually agree, ACLU. We agree with freedom of expression. We believe that free speech is what sets America apart from every other nation, and our CEO had a valid question responding to that philosophy for the ACLU on her social media. Check this out. You gotta love Marissa Streit's Facebook post. Marissa Streit, of course, is our CEO at PragerU. She, you know, she created the concept. She created PragerU Kids. She brought me on. We created it together. Marissa Streit's Facebook and Instagram asks, the ACLU's new kid series uses expressive hats to explain that students' free speech rights are protected in school. Fair question. Does that apply to all viewpoints, including students who wear MAGA hats? If so, where was the ACLU when students were being kicked out of schools for exercising that right? If they see themselves as competing in student content, we welcome the competition, and we do. But we also hope that they're honest. So, yes, is it one-sided, ACLU? Do we have rights to express our views in schools if they include Christian values, if they include the tenets that America was, you know, founded with equality under God? I mean, do we, are we allowed to express ourselves in schools, or is it just one-sided? It's a fair question. And speaking of teaching kids to know their rights, they should know the Bill of Rights. Absolutely. Our kids should know the Bill of Rights as they were written, as they exist for everyone. Let's take a peek right now at PragerU Kids' History in Five series. And I brought a clip of Constitution Explained, why we need a Bill of Rights. Let's roll it. It seems obvious, but that's only because we've grown up in a world where the Bill of Rights exists. Kind of like toasters and Pop-Tarts seem obvious, but if you asked a kid a hundred years ago to toast up a Pop-Tart, he'd probably be like, what? And then eat a biscuit. The Second Amendment is the right to bear arms. And no, this has nothing to do with bears, or arms, or bear arms. The right to bear arms simply means the right to own guns. This has become pretty controversial, but think of it this way. The most sacred of all rights is your right to be alive. The founders believed that people not only had a right to defend themselves and their loved ones, but a moral obligation. And not just from bad guys, but also from bad governments, whether they be foreign or even our own. The Third and Fourth Amendment protect your right to feel safe in your own home. The government, including police and soldiers, can't just barge into your house and search your stuff without good reason. The Fifth Amendment is the one you hear in movies where the guy says, I plead the Fifth. That just means you don't have to say anything that might get you in trouble, even if you are in trouble. But what does that actually mean? When you've been accused of a crime, you don't have to actually say anything until your lawyer shows up. Or like the cool cop always says, you have the right to remain silent. This ties directly into the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments. The right to a lawyer, a speedy trial, and to be judged by a jury. In other words, a group of regular people, not just a guy in a robe. The Eighth Amendment makes sure that if you are convicted of a crime, the punishment won't be excessive or cruel. Like if you jaywalk, you probably shouldn't be tarred and feathered in the streets. You know. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are basically insurance policies against big government. The Ninth Amendment says that just because a right isn't written in the Constitution, doesn't mean the people don't have it. You have the right to swim and breathe air. And the Tenth makes sure that any power not specifically given to the national government automatically belongs to the states. Which, as we've seen in other episodes, is another way to keep power distributed and close to the people. So I wonder if the ACLU will include the original source documents, such as the Bill of Rights, in their series. You'll notice how I let that video roll all the way through all 10 rights. I didn't do that on accident. This is a reminder to always teach the source material something that we believe very strongly in, especially in this America 250 year. Foundational documents and the context in which they were created in a moral and educated society that relied and often required biblical knowledge and belief to serve in office. Teach our source documents. Teach the foundational rights as they are written, such as in the Bill of Rights. Absolutely, we should teach about Supreme Court cases too. But if the ACLU wants children to know their rights, well then that also includes teaching the rights as they were written in their truest and pure form. Anyways, leave me a comment. Tell me what you think. That's it for us today on Parent Alert. I think it was a long episode. I think we went over, so I might be in a little bit of trouble. Subscribe for free to PragerUKids.com. New releases delivered to your inbox every single week for your kids. Don't miss an episode. U.S. and world history, American values, good character, civics, financial literacy. Thank you for your support always at PragerUKids. Can't do it without you. 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