Moodle

I know the election just ended, and if you’re like me you’re probably tired of hearing about it no matter who you wanted to win. But I just had to take a minute and write about how appalled I am at what some parents are telling their children as young as 1st grade!

While I am a big fan about introducing young children to how our government and elections work, I also very strongly believe that you treat politics like you would the birds and the bees. You adjust what you teach your children according to what they are mature enough to understand. Apparently there are a LOT of parents out there who do not believe this way, as my own daughter came home not that long ago wanting me to vote for McCain because “he lowers taxes” and “wants us to have money”. She’s in third grade. I asked her what taxes were, to which she honestly replied she didn’t know. Ugh.

Today while volunteering at the school I heard there was a child in 1st grade who had a horrible time last night as he had been told by another child that “Obama wanted to kill babies in Mommy’s tummies” and the child was scared because if Obama won all these babies would die! Apparently this was going around the classroom, the poor teacher had to deal with the fallout of this.

Tonight at Bible study I heard another Mother talking about how her daughter wanted to know who she voted for, (another 3rd grader) and the Mother gave her Biblical reasons as to why not to vote for Obama. It was her interpretation of the Bible - because as we all know the Bible has many.  I know the Mother meant well (she really did), but it just seemed a bit over her daughters head.

Children idolize their parents. There’s nothing wrong with that! However, it is our job as parents to control our need to push our opinions on our children when they are not yet old enough to understand what it all means. I don’t care who you voted for, what you think of Obama winning, or what you will do in 4 years from now.  You are entitled to your opinion, but you are an adult. We need to stop using our children for our own gain - all it is going to do is ruin the innocence and purity they have such a limited time to experience.

So please, before you go complaining to or around your young children about politics, think twice about how much you say. Keep it age appropriate, and focus on the process as an educational experience instead of using it as a way to spread hate and bitterness. After all, these children are America’s future!

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