RefAnCap @RefAnCap
Reformed Christian Anarcho-Capitalist, Father, Husband & Brother in the Fraternity of Excellence https://t.co/erHFBXxi7B Commiefornia, United States Joined November 2012-
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The pattern is always the same. "If you don't let the government educate your kids, they'll be ignorant." "If you don't spank your kids, they'll be spoiled." "If you don't control people, society will collapse." Notice the assumption underneath all of it. Human beings cannot be trusted. Freedom cannot be trusted. Choice cannot be trusted. The solution is always more authority. More control. More force. Mind control runs deep because fear runs deep. Many people would rather surrender responsibility to authority than learn how to lead themselves. And children suffer the most from parents who blindly obey authority.
People often assume strength is domination. The ability to control. To intimidate. To punish. To overpower. I see it differently. Strength is keeping your composure when you're angry. Strength is protecting those who depend on you. Strength is questioning traditions that harmed you instead of blindly repeating them. Strength is looking honestly at your own flaws rather than projecting them onto your children. Strength is carrying pain without passing it on. Any man can continue a cycle. It takes a stronger man to end one. The future belongs to fathers willing to leave their children better than they found them.
If Massie loses tonight, he should run for President. If Massie wins tonight, he should run for President.
Coming Soon! A Deep Dive Bible Study in the Book of Romans Lord willing, Season Five of the Blessed Hope Podcast will kick off on May 25, 2026. I’ve been hard at work and am excited to get going. Tell a Friend! kimriddlebarger.com/the-riddleblog…
On top of all this, the papists are unwilling for the righteousness of Christ to be imputed to them, while at the same time they have no shame in proclaiming that the righteousness of dead men and monks is imputed to them. — J Wollebius, Reformed Dogmatics, 167
A lot of men obsess over a collapsing civilization because it distracts them from their own internal collapse. It is easier to complain about modern culture than to repair your marriage. It is easier to argue politics than connect with your children. It is easier to romanticize warriors than to become emotionally present at home. So they stare backward all day while their real life disappears in front of them. Their wife grows lonely. Their kids grow distant. Their time is wasted. Their spirit hardens. Their home is emotionally cold. But bro read 14 threads about the fall of Rome this week, so he thinks he’s enlightened. Most men screaming about “the collapse of civilization” cannot even create peace in their own living room. A man who cannot love, lead, connect, protect, and create emotional safety in his own home has no business pretending to save the world. He is already psychologically conquered. The system loves him because angry, disconnected men are easy to manipulate.
We celebrate the Lord’s Supper weekly at Santa Clarita URC. Not as a memorial, but as a means of grace. Learn what we believe: santaclaritaurc.org/the-lords-supp…
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Don’t be afraid of your child’s anger. Anger is often the most honest thing a child knows how to express. Before children have the language for disappointment, fear, confusion, shame, loneliness, or emotional overwhelm, it all comes out through frustration and intensity. Most parents react to the anger itself rather than becoming curious about what lies beneath it. But children are not giving you a hard time nearly as often as they are having a hard time. And when a child learns that their strongest emotions don’t destroy the relationship, they slowly learn that feelings can be faced instead of feared.
A lot of parents demand “respect” from children while speaking to them in ways they would never tolerate from another adult. Yelling. Threats. Humiliation. Intimidation. Then they call the child disrespectful for reacting emotionally to it. That contradiction teaches that power changes the rules. Children learn that bigger people are allowed to cross emotional and physical boundaries simply because they hold power. Once that lesson is normalized in childhood, it quietly shapes how power is interpreted for the rest of life.
When a child throws a tantrum, responding with empathy and a calm presence does not reward “bad behavior.” It’s meeting a nervous system that is overwhelmed and doesn’t yet have the tools to regulate itself. In that moment, the child is not manipulating or calculating, they are flooded. Emotion is taking over cognition. What they need most is not escalation, shame, or withdrawal. They need co-regulation. A steady adult presence that communicates to them that they are safe, even while you feel out of control. Over time, that experience becomes internalized. They learn that stress doesn’t mean disconnection. That big emotions don’t end relationships, and that they can return to calm without fear. That’s where real resilience and regulation are built, not through suppression, but through guidance and stability.
People are discovering (again) that John Piper teaches "final salvation through works." His language. He's been teaching this for decades. Yes, he makes our good works the instrument of our alleged final salvation. He always has. He has repeated this in sermons, in articles, in the Bethlehem elders doctrinal statement, and DGM has tweeted it. Seeing this for the first time can be a shock. You're not alone. Others have been through the same cycle (shock, denial, acceptance). Start with the sources section and go from there. heidelblog.net/2017/10/resour… @ParamountChurch @Heidelblog01 @heidelcast @HeidelbergRefo1
We often praise the child who is quiet, compliant, and easy to manage. But we rarely ask what that behavior costs. Sometimes “good behavior” is not maturity, it’s suppression. A child who never pushes back, never expresses strong emotions, and never challenges boundaries may not be well-adjusted, they may be highly adapted to emotional tension at home. Is your child well-behaved, or are they just carefully avoiding being themselves?
Your job will forget you ever worked there, your children will never forget you weren’t there.
@trad_west_ @ZacSmall_ Start pushing the practice of life isn't about hustling and making money? That the only people who will remember or care that you were working overtime is your family?
When people say, "I was spanked, and I turned out fine," the conversation usually stops too early. Because "fine" is rarely defined. Does it mean emotionally secure? Calm under stress? Healthy relationships? Strong self-awareness? Or does it simply mean functional? Survival is mistaken for health when there's no point of comparison. And what gets labeled "fine" always shows up in society's dysfunction and brokenness.
Many parents think they are teaching emotional regulation. But what many are actually teaching is emotional suppression. A child who learns to go quiet under pressure isn’t necessarily regulated; they are afraid of the consequences of expressing themselves. Regulation is not shutting down emotion. It’s learning how to understand and move through it without losing control or connection. Those are very different skills.
When obedience is trained through power, through “because I said so,” through threat, through punishment framed as “for your own good,” the child doesn’t just learn behavior. They learn a model of authority. That model becomes internalized. The child learns that those with power define what is good, and those without power comply. The danger is not obedience. The danger is conditioned trust in authority that overrides personal perception. It produces adults who hesitate to question harm when it is presented as protection, necessity, or care. The home is not just about upbringing. It is psychological imprinting. Fathers shape how their children interpret power, whether it dominates them or whether it can be understood, questioned, and held accountable.
A father’s job is to protect his children, but protection is often misunderstood as control, force, or correction through fear. It is similar to a helicopter mom, but with more testosterone. But protection is not about overpowering a child; it’s about shaping an environment where development doesn’t require harm to function. Yelling, spanking, punishment, and manipulation may produce short-term compliance, but they also communicate something deeper to the child. That power justifies force, and that being smaller means you shut up and take it. Children don’t just remember what happened to them. They internalize what it means. And what it often means is that authority is something you fear and endure, not something you can question or understand. That becomes the invisible framework they carry into adulthood, how they interpret leaders, systems, relationships, and even their own self-worth. This is why fatherhood is not just behavioral management. It is a psychological inheritance. Children don’t become what they are instructed or forced to be. They become what they repeatedly experience as “normal” under pressure and constant stress. The responsibility of a father is not to dominate moments of misbehavior, but to model a form of strength that does not require domination to resolve problems. Because children will imitate what they trust, not what they fear, and the kind of man a child becomes is often shaped less by what he was told and more by what he had to survive.
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