We're not sure how one will define a sheltered home, but after reading Nicholeen Peck's "A Home United" paraphrase from "The Fourth Turning" we surely hope we do have a sheltered home...for we know we are not raising just any ordinary kids, we are raising a hero generation...a generation we hope will stand tall, some of our kids have already, when faced with that which destroys life as it was meant to be...happy!!!
"..."hero generation" youth are often more sheltered than (other) youth. This sheltering gives them strong core beliefs. Because the heroes know the difference between "right and wrong-good and bad-true and false" they notice that when bad rears it's ugly head they feel a need to fight bad for the sake of goodness. The "hero generation" youth know happiness and safety feel like because they have felt right, good, and true in their more sheltered homes, and right, good and true feel safe and create happiness. These "heroes" are willing to risk their lives to preserve and protect right, good, and true. "The Hero archetype is made, not born, and the making begins in childhood at the hands of parents gripped with spiritual confidence and secular anxiety""
So be it what it may...here at the Aponte we believe that the rearing, caring and nurturing of our "heroes" is Jacky's and Jose's foremost priority and responsibility. We also believe that happiness in our home will most likely be achieved based on the principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities...our hope is we can do good enough in the short period we have to teach and experience these principles with our "heroes".
