Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!
Author Feels Her Children’s Book is the Right Reading for Conservative Kids
By Mary Rettig
September 1, 2005
(AgapePress) – Concerned conservative parent Catherine DeBrecht says she got tired of seeing children’s books — as well as TV and movies — barraging youngsters with liberal ideology, so she decided to write a book that would reflect her values.
DeBrecht claims she saw that her own children were being bombarded from the Left by television, books and movies. But when she went looking for something presented from the conservative side, she had a difficult time finding material. That, she says, is why she wrote her book Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! (Xulon Press).
The book tells the story of brothers Tommy and Lou, who decide to earn money for a swing set by opening a lemonade stand. But unfortunately, the author notes, the boys’ dream gets stuck in “Liberaland” as press-hungry liberals keep “appearing from behind their lemon tree” to raise outrageous obstacles and institute one ridiculous law after another.
In the story, a liberal mayor taxes Tommy and Lou’s profits, a liberal lawmaker outlaws sugary drinks, and an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer objects to the brothers’ display of their Christian faith. The Left-leaning villains of DeBrecht’s fanciful tale all but ruin the boys’ enterprise “by taking half of their money in taxes, making them give broccoli with each glass sold, and making them take down the picture of Jesus atop their stand,” she says. Ultimately, the liberals end up taking over the children’s lemonade stand and offering the public sour lemonade at astronomical prices.
Liberals is just the first story in DeBrecht’s four-book “Help! Mom!” series. Although there is a political message behind the book, she insists that it is still a fun story that will not go over kids’ heads. “I know that there are liberals who raise their children with liberal values; I’m going to raise my children with conservative values,” she says. “This book is not required reading in the public schools — it’s a book for conservatives who are going to pass on their conservative values. It’s a good tool for them to use.”
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Good for you and how you raise your kids! As conservative parent PapaCool attended Parents Night at his kid’s school this week, he was appalled by the way people and institutions have been forced to scamper to please any group’s political correctness agenda. It seemed every holiday on the school calendar had been altered because of offense to one group or another. The Halloween Party is now called the Fall Costume Parade – to avoid Satanic reference. Thanksgiving was renamed Nutrition Feast – not to promote the Pilgrim’s religious beliefs. We all know about avoidance of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in December – no mention on the calendar – just a Winter Party being held in January where the kids will sing about snow. Valentine’s Day became the Heart Exchange – we can’t promote St. Valentine. Easter and the never mentioned Good Friday holiday remain Spring Break. Argh! PapaCool resisted the temptation to ask if Intelligent Design would be taught this year along with Darwin’s evolution theory.