Home Security: 5 Ways to Protect Your Family in 2024
The desire for home security goes back a long, long way.
Before hi-tech 2024, fences, door locks, and walls provided the needed boundaries, hindering thieves and intruders, but let’s go back even further.
Think medieval castles encircled by moats. It brings to mind deeply dug trenches and ferocious crocodiles sliding through murky waters. That’s a hardcore security system. Take that, conquering hordes!
In writing this, however, my mental image was shattered when I learned that these water and croc-filled moats never happened! It’s a myth, possibly started by a writer whose fictitious depictions caught on. So disappointing.
There was, however, and still is a moat at the Český Krumlov Castle in the Czech Republic that has bears.1 So, that’s something, I suppose.
Now we have technically advanced security systems in our homes, and cameras mounted around our property are no longer only for the wealthy. Many 2nd Amendment-loving Americans keep a shotgun or other firearms on hand to make their point to any who dare to break in.
Then, there are our friends in Texas, who boast over a million registered firearms. We would imagine that gives thieves in the Lone Star State pause. (At least it should!)
Protecting ourselves, our families, and our property is an American right.
But what about protection from a deteriorating culture that aims at our children, prosperity, and liberties? That’s another level of needed safety we must take seriously. We are taking an expanded look at home security with five ways to protect your family in 2024.
1. Arm Yourself
Whether you own a firearm or not – we’re talking about much more than firepower. When confronted with the present cultural chaos, we must all be armed with knowledge, grit, and fearlessness.
What happens when a teacher decides to “transition” your eight-year-old daughter to “be” a boy and keeps it secret from you? Who do you call when your 6th-grade son arrives home dejected because he’s been told he’s a victim and hated in America because of the color of his skin? Conversely, your child is evil because of their ancestors, and there’s no hope to ever wipe away the stain.
How about when a school or sports team demands proof that your child was vaccinated or that your adolescent daughter must share a locker room with a teen boy who pretends to be a girl while visible biological evidence does not concur?
We may have been blindsided when the crazy came to our attention – but no more.
Moms will not sacrifice their children for woke ideologies present in our school systems. Enthusiasts for government education bemoan lost funding from an exodus of students due to vouchers, choice, or homeschooling. But they should’ve thought that through before they began to usurp parental authority to claim power and ownership of the next generation!
Their own ideological power trip may be partially to blame for the trend of homeschooling’s explosion in America, which will lead to a strong generation of patriots raised by parents who are becoming wise and brave!
Be ready to protect your family by building your arsenal. Here’s what you need to arm yourself:
Know Your Constitution so you won’t be unaware of the one-of-a-kind rights and liberties our founders built into the solid foundation of our nation. We can help. Moms for America has Celebrate the Constitution among its growing library of engaging Webinars on Demand, available for you to experience and share!
Know Your Choices when it comes to education. You can stand your ground in public school, sticking close to your kids to protect them from the many concerning problems coming to light, or consider school choice available in some states. Or, like many – you could begin a homeschooling journey for your family, giving your kids the most customized, high-quality education available anywhere – with you at the helm.
Know Your Rights as a Parent, as certain teachers and administrators now blatantly claim that parents shouldn’t have rights regarding their kids’ educational experience. They wave their teaching certificates as evidence and count on intimidated American parents to allow them to run roughshod over the sanctity of families and their God-given rights.
Once you become aware of your place as a parent, you never have to be bulldozed by any school, district, teacher, or activist. We have our free downloadable A Mom’s Guide to Parental Rights to help.
You’ll want to hear this week’s podcast with Kate Anderson, Senior Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, as she shares some of the parental rights cases she’s been involved with lately and how that organization’s important work is fighting for our liberties.
2. Find Your People
When a lion attacks in the wild, she selects the weak, small, or separated prey.
While we don’t necessarily want to use the predator/prey analogy to imply that we are being targeted as conservatives, we do want to emphasize that there is strength in unity and numbers.
Be friends with folks on all sides of the political spectrum, and also be sure to lock arms with other like-minded moms and families who share your values and a similar desire to protect kids and preserve American freedoms. Find your people by getting involved with political campaigns, election integrity efforts, pro-life organizations, homeschool co-ops, and Moms for America.
Do we have to say it? You will always have a standing invitation from us to get involved in any way that appeals. Join a group or lead a group. We’d love to see your strength encourage and uplift others in your community.
There are so many ways to dive in, starting with Moms for America Groups, our Cottage Meeting Project, Grammy Grizzlies, Future Moms for America, and Cottage Meetings for Kids – to name a few.
Whether you join a Moms for America group or find yourself involved in a homeschool co-op or your church, whatever you do – don’t go it alone.
3. Engage Your Citizenship
This is a pivotal year. You can feel it in the air, can’t you?
Young American protesters celebrate terrorists, historic statues are desecrated and toppled, and precious children are mutilated by nefarious clinicians. Meanwhile, a political power struggle boils with the President in hiding, poking out his head once in awhile to hurl a false accusation about President Trump. Harris plots her rise to the White House, tapping a hardcore socialist as her running mate – and we’re expected to think of him as “folksy.” (I just threw up a little in my mouth.)
Life in America seems perched on a powder keg. This year is big.
As we barrel toward our Presidential Election in November, we know our next leader may determine whether America prospers – or survives.
Donate to support the candidates of your choice. At Moms for America, we have given President Donald J. Trump our full-throated endorsement.
Volunteer to work on election day. Use your digital reach to make your voice heard on social media whenever you can. Don’t be silenced by name-callers or those who make up false narratives to disparage President Trump and other conservatives.
Don’t fall for fake news. Ever.
As citizens and moms, it’s time to stand.
Visit MomVote with other American moms nationwide to make our collective voice heard at the ballot box. There, you’ll find a wealth of information about candidates, platforms, how to register, and more. Sign our Pledge to Vote as your way of committing to exercising your sacred American citizenship right this fall.
Share the link with others and help those numbers grow! Encourage young moms who may not be registered to check out MomVote for themselves, and we’ll guide them through the process.
4. Strengthen Your Spiritual House
In the heat of a stressful and overloaded life, letting faith slide to the back burner in your family can be tempting. Regardless of who sits in the White House, your spiritual strength is vital to surviving and living purposefully.
As your home’s foundation, faith protects you from the craziness that comes from every side. The truths of God are true. The Bible doesn’t change. Our hope in Christ is solid – our only real rock in a raging cultural storm.
Pray together as a family for our nation, each other, and every concern that arises in the hearts of your little ones. God cares about all of it.
Read the Bible, not as a ritual but as a feast that will go deep into your soul. Model a love for God’s word to your kiddos, and tell the amazing stories in its pages. If you struggle with understanding it, ask God for wisdom and take in some of the many videos and podcasts online that are true to biblical standards.
Find a Church Home to build community with others digging into the faith our nation was built on. This will be where your kids can experience time with others their age to have fun, pray, worship, and develop a faith community foundation.
Consider Proverbs 21:1, which tells how the king’s heart is in the Lord’s hand, and He can turn it “wherever He wishes.” That’s a solid reason to pray for our leaders, asking God to influence them. There is also a passage in Daniel that explains that God raises up kings – and removes them.
Though we don’t have a king, this seems especially pertinent as we approach November 5th.
5. Show Your Courage and Resolve
Did you hear the story of the Little Rock, Arkansas, high school where the teens arrived to find their classrooms cleared of all the desks?
As they shuffled around the empty room, with books, notebooks, and other school gear clutched in their arms and nowhere to lay them, they complained to their history teacher, Ms. Martha Cothern, asking where the desks had gone.
She challenged them, saying, “You can’t have a desk until you tell me how you earned the right to sit at a desk in this school.”
The students began guessing. Was it their grades that earned their rights? Their hard work studying? Or maybe good behavior?
The hours wore on, and no one found the correct answer. Ms. Cothern held her ground.
Near the end of the school day, all was finally revealed as a line of 27 uniformed US veterans, each carrying a desk into the classroom. The soldiers stood before the students once the desks were placed in rows. They represented different branches of service, having served in various posts worldwide, during wartime and peace, and all in service to the USA.
Ms. Cothern finally explained, “You didn’t earn the right to sit at those desks. These heroes did it for you… They went halfway around the world giving up their education, interrupting their careers, and leaving their families so you could have the freedom you have now.” The memorable object lesson went viral on social media, speeches, and articles.2
Our great nation has thrived for 248 years thanks to the deep and abiding courage and resolve of our founders and heroic Americans through the years.
As the narrative circulates that America is somehow not a standard of virtue and good – instead is irredeemable, it’s more important than ever that our children learn of the great and sacrificial gifts given to them as citizens.
The signers of our great Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Their signatures were treasonous to the king, and they knew very well they could hang for it.
Thankfully, after hard-fought victories in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, our young nation began to thrive on the solid ground of men and women who fought and died to protect us. For centuries, they have carried us on their shoulders and loved our nation and people with all they had.
Home security includes the security of our homeland.
May we raise our kids to understand the ease and freedom they enjoy cost others greatly. We must live courageously and resolutely. Our kids must learn patriotic resilience as our families protect what has been given to us as our birthright.
You hold the future of our great nation in your hands. Our families’ security, safety, and future are up to us, mamas. Thank God for the liberty and legacy we can protect and preserve for future Americans.
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