One of the means to equip a child to reject the fads of every age is to give them access to literacy and old books. Teaching a child to read outside their time will give them a perspective they cannot have otherwise. Chesterton is one of those our children ought to read.

“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place, and sometimes contradicted and overcome by other and better ideas. The great writers did not neglect a fad because they had not thought of it, but because they had thought of it and of all the answers to it as well.” –G.K. Chesterton