There is definitely hope for Millennials.

Not all of them have been coddled. Not all of them are seeking safe spaces to shield them from the discomfort of hearing views different from their own. Not all are unable to understand and navigate the world in which they live. Some are actually confidently going about their daily lives, working hard, long hours, welcoming new challenges. Some are actually learning how to win, not to give in to the Left's political correctness. Some actually have learned how to think independently; they have refused to be brainwashed by either their parents or their educators.

Want a couple of examples? Exhibit one is my 23-year-old son Erik. When Erik hit the teenage years, he knew he wanted to try a vo-tech school, rather than the standard high school curriculum. He worked hard and got certified as a diesel mechanic. This week he posted on Facebook his first experience in ice-trucking.

You see, he is the guy who gets called when a trucker breaks down on the interstate highways. He brings his box of tools and his brains to figure out what caused the truck to break down, fixes the problem, and gets the trucker back on the road. He is based out of Denver, but this week he drove in the season's first blizzard all the way up to windswept Wyoming to help a stranded trucker.

After our son Thomas made the 8th grade honor roll, he asked us if he could home-school. He got his GED, then his commercial driver's license, and set off criss-crossing this country as a trucker for several years. Recently, at age 26, he bought his first home, a wonderful place in the Sandia mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He is General Manager of a company there that specializes in bringing local agriculture products to markets in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, but also brings locally grown foods to nearby Indian reservations. He has also figured out a way to bring fresh-caught salmon from Alaska to New Mexico.

In their spare time, Thomas and Erik are teaming up to expand Thomas's business into Colorado. Where do they get their courage to try new things? Well, surely at least partly from their mother, who was trained and licensed as a school psychologist, finished that career, and then went on to do what she had always wanted, become a farmer and rancher, where innovation and hard work are required every single day.