Teach Your Children Well

[AngryOldDem]

My two older kids (13 and 11) were sitting around the dinner table last night talking politics. The 11-year-old was saying how "bad" Bush is.

After listening to the discussion for awhile, my youngest son (3) piped up, extremely authoritatively: "Bush needs spanks." Haven't heard such cogent commentary in a long while.

[Jo March]

1. I love it!!! LOL, that is too funny!

You're raising two very smart kids there.

[Mizmoon]

2. I don't indoctrinate my children

I try to teach them to think for themselves. That means at times they disagree with me.

I told my son that I was afraid if Bush got re-elected that he might end up drafted. He said he's not so sure he would want my help in escaping the country - he might want to go and fight. We talked a long time about it, but no resolution. Yes, I'm horrifed at the thought, but it's not my decision to make. It's his.

As always, it's simply MHO.

[LWolf]

3. I'm in the same place with my sons.

I can fully support the choices they make, because I taught them well.

Teaching isn't indoctrination. If all parents would engage their children in conversation, teach them to listen and to think, teach them that there is more than one "right" way to think about or do anything, and teach them empathy for others and care for the world around them, our world would be a better place.

[AngryOldDem]

5. Exactly

I don't think my children are "indoctrinated" at all, and I really don't know how I should take that comment in the other post. A great deal of the problem in this nation stems from people being totally disconnected with what's going on around them -- being content to have someone else tell them how to vote, how to think, etc. It is neat to have our oldest daughter sit down with us, watch the network news, and then ask us intelligent and thought-provoking questions that all of us -- her, my husband and myself -- learn from.

Another plus to getting my kids up to speed on current events is that it also gives us the chance to provide the history instruction that they should be getting in school but unfortunately aren't. If we don't know where we've been in this country, we don't know where we are now and we certainly cannot know where we are going.

JMHO.

[LWolf]

6. You are right!

Discussion of current events and more recent history is so vital. Of course, each state sets its own frameworks for what is taught when; but in my state, we never even get to the 20th Century. Of course ancient civilizations, colonization, the Revolution and Civil War are important; but how can we put what is happening today into context if we don't know what happened the last hundred years?

[billybob537]

4. Thats very interesting

coming soon from TRUEMAJORITY.COM a new parade float featuring Uncle Sam spanking GWB*, It's interesting that a 3 yr. old understands this.