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Sometimes I wonder what our world is coming to. Sometimes it seems there is so much violence, prejudice, hatred, and disregard for the world and its different beliefs, countries, customs, and peoples. I have thought so many times, that our world’s future rests on the shoulders of our children.

Our children need love and good parenting. They need to be taken seriously with love, compassion, understanding, admiration, and teaching for our little ones from childhood on to adulthood. They are, after all, truly the future of our world. They need chances to learn, enjoy, care, experience, help us and just be themselves with our guidance, love, and patience. Especially little children, who have a wonderful way of looking at the world with wonder and joy. We need to support that and give them experiences about life and the earth to learn from and enjoy

This song was one I heard in the 70’s as a teenager. I loved this song then for its words and the blending of the men’s voices and instruments. As an older woman with grown “children” I found it revealing and deeply touching in its words.

This is a wonderful thoughtful song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. You can find it on YouTube. https://youtu.be/ztVaqZajq-I?si=b2LE8AfpJrYZyq0N

Teach Your Children Well

… You, who are on the road
Must have a code you try to live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a goodbye

… Teach your children well
Their father’s hell did slowly go by
Feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s the one you’ll know by

… Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

… And you, of tender years
Can’t know the fears your elders grew by
Help them with your youth
They seek the truth before they can die

… Teach your parents well
Their children’s hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick’s the one you’ll know by

… Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

… Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you

… Ooh, and know they love you
And know they love you, yeah
And know they love you

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Graham William Nash

Teach Your Children lyrics © Nash Notes