Welcome to deliver sheet podcast. My name is Jeff Dow and this is the ninth episode of our bonus episodes on the 1776 report. As a recap, just to remind you that the 1776 commission was initiated by president Trump and the declared purpose of the presidents. Advisory 1776 commission was to enable the rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776. And to strive to form a more perfect union. This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles. That is accurate, honest. Unifying inspiring. And ennobling. I think this reports. They're important. So we've been working through it. A few episodes each week. And going through. So that we can, if you don't want to sit down and read all of it, You can spend a few minutes each. Each week and going through. Each bit of it. So we are now talking. Part five, the task of national renewal, and we will discuss the role of the family. All the good things we see around us from the physical infrastructure to our high standards of living to our exceptional freedoms are direct results of America's unity, stability, and justice, all of which in turn rests on the bedrock of our founding principles. Yet today, our country is in danger of throwing this inheritance away. The choice before now is clear. We will choose the truth of the declaration, or will we fail fall prey to the false theories that have led to many nations to tyranny. Is our mission. All of us to restore our national unity, rekindling, a brave and honest love for our country and by raising new generations of citizens. You've not only know the self evident truth of our founding, but act worthy of them. This great project of national renewal. Depends upon true education. Not merely training in particular skills, but the formation that citizens to remain a free people, we must have the knowledge, strength, and virtue of a free people from families and schools to popular culture and public policy. We must teach our founding principles and the character necessary to live out those principles. This includes restoring the patriotic education that teaches the truth about America. That doesn't mean ignoring the thoughts in our past the rather reviewing our history clearly and wholly with reverence. And love. We must also prioritize personal responsibility and fulfilling the duties we have towards one another. As citizens above all, we must stand up to the petty tyrants in every sphere who demand that we speak only on America sins. On denying her greatness at home in school and only. At the workplace and in the world is the place. And the only the people who have the power to stand up for America and defend her our way of life. The role of the family. By their very nature. Families are the first educators teaching children, how to treat others with respect, make wise decisions. And exercise patients. Thank for themselves. Instead, passively card, their God given liberties. It has good mothers and fathers above all others who form good people and go to citizens. This is why America's founding fathers often echoed the great Roman statement. Cicero. In referring to the family as a seminary of the Republic. They understood that the habits and morals shaped in the home determine the character of our communities and the ultimate fate of our country. When children see their mother and father hard at work, they learn the dignity of labor and the reward of self-discipline. When adults speak out against the dangerous doctrines that threatened our freedoms and values, children's learn the time tested concept of free expression and the courageous spirit of American independence. When parents serve a neighborhood in need, they modeled charity improve that every human being. As inherent growth and when families pray together and that knowledge together, the Providence of almighty God who gave them all their secret Liberty. For the American Republic to endure families must remain strong and reclaim their identity to raise up morally responsible citizens who love America and embraced the gifts and responsibilities of freedom. And self-government. Our next episode, we will cover teaching America.