Asatru Folk Assembly - December 04, 2025


Raising Ásatrú Children #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
If You Mean It, Do It #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts Loyalty is Worth the Struggle #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

150.22

Word count

345

Sentence count

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of not forcing your values on your children, and why you should let them decide when they're old enough to make their own decisions. I also talk about how important it is to actively raise your children to believe in their own values.

Transcript

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00:00:00.720 part of your trough to the iser
00:00:08.480 is actively raising your children to be also true
00:00:13.840 this has gotten so much better than it was at one point in time but there was a period of time where
00:00:20.320 i think there was a lot of families that were mixed religion they're you know the husband at
00:00:25.680 the time more often than not it was the husband who was also true and the wife was something else
00:00:33.280 be that some some kind of christian some kind of wiccan some kind of you know maybe an atheist but
00:00:44.400 one of the biggest jobs we have as parents is raising our children teaching them the things
00:00:50.800 that we believe to be true and right and you know it's become it's become politically incorrect or
00:01:01.360 inappropriate for us to try to instill our values into our children but that's
00:01:08.320 one of our most fundamental jobs as parents you should be trying to quote unquote force
00:01:14.560 your values on your children that's your job as a parent own that they shouldn't be your values if
00:01:22.720 you don't wholeheartedly believe them to be right and if you wholeheartedly believe them to be right
00:01:27.920 you should want your children to learn them and and make those a fundamental part of who they are
00:01:33.360 that's our job but that's part of that loyalty and it's also one of those things that
00:01:38.580 you know again in the mixed marriage situation that i mentioned before that generation so we
00:01:45.080 would have a generation of people announce the truth that would well you know glad no religion
00:01:49.320 was forced on me when i was a kid oh you know let my kids decide when they're old enough
00:01:53.680 well i hope your children make the right choice when they're old enough
00:01:58.580 but by doing that you've abdicated your fundamental responsibility as a parent
00:02:03.120 And I think that's damaging to our kids, and I'm glad that that's not the way that we see it nearly as much anymore in the AFA of the people I've spoken to.