"I don't think were in Kansas any more Dorothy"

David Allen Brown


Christian Writer

"Lovenotes from Above: WWSD"

“I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more Dorothy”

I Peter 5:8—“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (NIV)


You're in your house one day enjoying the peace and quiet when suddenly it’s interrupted by angry voices. “Hey punk” you hear your son scream. “Who the **** do you think you’re calling, punk, you punk” your neighbor fires back? You go to the window just in time to see your son yell back at your neighbor, “Keep your dog out of our yard or I’ll call the pound to come and get him”.


Where does this kind of language and attitude come from? Did your son learn that from his friends or maybe even from listening to you? Maybe he learned it from watching his favorite channel on television or from some rap song that we don’t want him listening too?


These days you can hear that kind of talk just about anywhere you go. I just know that we didn’t curse like that when I was a kid or talk to our neighbors that way either.

The world is a different place nowadays. So, what are the kids doing differently now that we didn’t do when we were kids? It’s not what “they” are doing differently. It’s what the world is doing differently that is to blame.


Satan has got a great footing on the morality of America and he won’t let go without a fight. Bad attitudes spread hatred and a number of other negatives throughout our society. The only thing that can counter bad is good and unfortunately, we must seek out good while bad just sort of fall into our laps. In other words we have to make an effort to be good while being bad is easy to do.


Talk about feeding a young impressionable mind with the wrong kind of nourishment. Television and movies are just two sources of bad influence these days. Satan knows how lazy parents give violent video games to their kids just to get them to leave Mom and Dad alone . That makes three.


“Why did they even have kids in the first place,”? That’s what I always think about when I see a 7-year old playing some violent and bloody video game. If we don’t have the time or won’t make the time to spend with our children then what was the point in having them in the first place. We are suppose to be raising them. Not Nintendo


The list goes on and on and if we don’t at least counter the negative with some positive,then what do we expect from them? They are just mimicking what they observe every day of their lives. I had four kids, all begging for one of those game player thingies, and I gave in one Christmas. I told them that if it caused even one fight that it would be gone forever. They owned it for approximately 10 minutes, and then it was gone forever.