I like to do thought experiments with my kids.
One of my favorites goes something like this:
They get a gift from someone.
I ask them where it came from.
They tell me the name of the person who gave them the gift.
Yes… but where did it come from?
Answers range from, “she made it” to “he bought it from x store”.
The point is to get them to think about where things actually come from.
The idea, of course, is that nothing can just come from nowhere. Things don’t just appear, and even young kids understand that something can’t come from nothing. Somebody had to make it, or at least buy it. Nothing just magically appears out of thin air.
Simple, right?
You’d think so, but somewhere along the way, too many grown-ups have forgotten that basic reality when it comes to government.
We’ve all seen the messaging: “free” college, “free” health care, stimulus checks, subsidies, handouts. Politicians love to play Santa Claus with programs that supposedly lift some people up—but they never mention the part where they have to pull others down in the process.
That’s the great civic lesson that nobody teaches anymore: The government has no resources of its own. It can only give to one person what it has first taken from another.
And that’s not just an economic issue—it’s a moral one.
When our kids don’t learn this principle, they grow up thinking that government is some kind of benevolent force, conjuring up money and goodies for everyone. They’re taught to believe that redistribution is compassion (rather than legalized plunder).
No wonder we end up with a culture that’s more interested in entitlement than effort.
That’s why I believe teaching this lesson early matters so much. Not in a cynical way, but in a clear-eyed, truthful one. See, when kids understand where things come from—and how value is created—they grow up to be producers, not dependents.
They grow up to be builders, not beggars.
That’s the entire mission behind the Tuttle Twins books. To give kids (and their parents) the tools to understand how the world really works—so they’re not taken in by political gimmicks or economic fairy tales.
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The world is going to keep selling our kids lies. It’s our job to teach them the truth.
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— Connor
