Sergetalks Blog ~ The Official Blog of Serge LeClerc

But he puts even more responsibility on churches. “Go find a Christian church that will be Christian,” he said. He talked about a community that had asked him to speak. LeClerc “We, our generation, give our kids and grandkids more than we ever had. They don’t pay rent. They don’t buy their stuff. They have the highest disposable income of any group. And they have become a target market for advertisers, starting at 11. We don’t do anything about it. We raise our kids and our grandkids on TV. Kids have televisions and computers in their rooms. We took our kids’ minds and gave them away. Something is wrong when we let technology abscond with the the role of parents. Take a stand. Do something,” Serge LeClerc, MLA, author, motivational speaker and former drug lord told Foam Lake’s adults following a potluck supper on January 8.

The end result, LeClerc said, is that our kids are making some seriously wrong, life-threatening choices. (more…)

We ended the last blog with speaking about the societal changes begun in the mid-1960, the moral and ethical left-hand turn, the movement into ‘MEism’, which has set up the change of consequences for the choices that young people make today – and the foundation of comparative values to judge those choices against. They are faced with the exact same choices every young person has always faced; sex, alcohol, drugs, how to dress and how to view one’s identity. We reviewed the reality of today’s consequences in the arena of sex by looking at the startling increase in the number of teenagers having sexual transmitted diseases and more alarming, the increase and diversity of the STDs themselves. Then we looked at the numbers of crisis pregnancy rates, the proliferation of abortions and the proportion below the age of 17 yrs, and the interrelationship of those factors to the spike of teenage female rates which is the 2nd leading cause of death amongst our teens. (more…)

As I discussed in the last blog; our kids live in a different world today then our day of yesteryear. There are two major differences, amongst a number of more minor ones, that has set the stage for the world that our children must make their way in today. They will be the first generation that will fully exist within the social fabric that the ‘MEism’ generation created. The second unique factor for the current generation is that they will be the first generation totally brought up within the ‘media parenthood’, from cradle to grave, never knowing a day when TV and advertising didn’t dominate their lives.

Let us start with the first factor – the moral and ethically reality that my generation put into motion beginning in the mid-60s. It was a time of teenagers and very young men fighting a war in a before unknown and strange country called Vietnam, dying in the thousands in its jungles – of a time when bomb shelters were being built in fear of the ‘atomic bomb’ being dropped on us by the evil ‘red empire’, the Soviet Union, of college students being shot on the campus of Kent State University for protesting the war, of Martin Luther King leading peaceful protest about ingrained racism, the Black Panthers declaring war over racism through violence, and a President and his Executive Cabinet resigning and going to prison over getting caught breaking into the Watergate office of National Democratic Party’s Headquarters – the British invasion of the Beatles giving way to the celebration of ‘a magic carpet ride’ and the indulgence of Dr. Timothy Leary’s promotion of ‘LSD’ – the ‘acid rock’ movement of Woodstock and Monterey Pop Festivals. (more…)