“The saying, you are what you eat, is especially true when the food being consumed is food for thought.”
On this episode of Connecting the Dots with Dan Happel, we tackle the cultural war over children’s literature. For centuries, stories have been the foundation of moral teaching—shaping courage, honesty, responsibility, and faith.
Dan and his guest expose how modern education, publishing, and entertainment have replaced timeless stories that taught courage, honesty, and faith with politically correct, agenda-...
“The saying, you are what you eat, is especially true when the food being consumed is food for thought.”
On this episode of Connecting the Dots with Dan Happel, we tackle the cultural war over children’s literature. For centuries, stories have been the foundation of moral teaching—shaping courage, honesty, responsibility, and faith.
Dan and his guest expose how modern education, publishing, and entertainment have replaced timeless stories that taught courage, honesty, and faith with politically correct, agenda-driven narratives.
Dan is joined by Dr. James A. S. Patrick, author and cultural historian and Robert Morris, U.S. Army veteran and former constitutional history teacher to discuss the urgent need to revive moral storytelling for the next generation. Together they explore how fables, biblical parables, and classic literature once built strong character and how parents, educators, and independent creators can reclaim that role in today’s environment.
The question is: will our children grow up with moral clarity and faith, or confusion and indoctrination?
If the future belongs to those who tell the best stories, then restoring moral children’s literature is nothing less than an act of cultural survival.
Guests
C.R. Stewart — international award-winning, bestselling author of the 7-book Britfield series; founder of The Britfield Institute; former investment banker turned creativity educator and media entrepreneur.
His series is designed to re-ignite literacy, creativity, and character through real-world, present-day adventures—rolling out globally with films in development.
The Britfield blueprint: family, friendship, loyalty, courage, hope and “stealth education” that naturally teaches geography, history, art, and culture.
From page to screen: updates on Britfield film development and why values-driven blockbusters can beat Hollywood’s “content treadmill.”
Robert Morris — U.S. Army veteran and former constitutional history teacher. In this conversation he shares why rebuilding a culture of virtue, truth, and courage in youth storytelling is essential—and how filmmakers and authors can “assemble and anoint” the next generation.
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Public schooling and pop culture are shaping worldviews 24/7. If we don’t feed young minds what is true, good, and beautiful, someone else will. This episode connects the dots and shows practical steps to revive moral children’s literature in your home, school, and community.
The Power of Storytelling: How fables, myths, and biblical stories historically shaped moral behavior.
Moral Decay in Modern Publishing: Children’s books now often promote ideology over values.
Restoring Tradition: The importance of reintroducing classics and creating new stories rooted in eternal truths.
Faith & Family: Reclaiming parents’ role as the first storytellers and protectors of moral imagination.
Education’s Role: How schools shifted from teaching virtue to enforcing compliance with collectivist ideology.
Core Lessons
Stories shape destiny, nations rise or fall depending on the values taught to their children.
Modern children’s literature often undermines morality by replacing universal truths with transient political narratives.
Parents and communities must reassert their role in curating what children read, hear, and watch.
Cultural battles begin early, control of children’s literature is a strategic tool for shaping future citizens.
Reject passive consumption, families should intentionally select or create stories aligned with their values.
Entertainment is never neutral, every story plants seeds of either virtue or vice.
The attack on children’s literature is part of a larger globalist agenda to undermine Western faith and family structures.
Reviving moral literature is not nostalgia, it’s a counter-revolutionary act of cultural survival.
Independent creators and small publishers may become the new guardians of truth as corporate media grows more hostile.
