Do you enjoy talking to (your) kids about politics?

[tigereye]

my son is almost 12 and it's really fun to hear him analyze all the new knowledge about the world/politics, that he is learning at school.

They were studying South Africa and India and it was really great to be able to discuss well-known progressives such as Gandhi and Mandela as well as Desmond Tutu with him.

He has no opinion about which Presidential candidate is the best, but he now says," you just don't like Republicans, mom." :rofl:

[otherlander]

1. My dad tried to explain the Cuban Revolution

to me when I was about 4 years old. I didn't really get it. :crazy:

[tigereye]

2. yeah, I could see how that might go

it's just really fun when kids get old enough to have serious opinions.

My son was lecturing me about John D. Rockefeller the other day. And then they went to see Clayton, Henry Frick's mansion here.


It was an interesting couple of days..

[Arugula Latte]

3. I do. My son is really into it. My daughter is getting there.

Good liberals, both of them.

I started arguing with my dad when I was 14 and he voted for that idiot Reagan. I lost a lot of respect for his intelligence then. Luckily, later he and my mom both turned away from the Republicans and my mom is now super liberal.

[tigereye]

12. what we have tried to do with our son is to tell him how we see things

but let him know that he isn't required to think the way we do. Just so he doesn't become a rabid Rep, that would be trouble!



I have even tried to explain in a nice way why I think ex-Sen. Santorum is a scumbag, without using that term.

[PeaceNikki]

4. Love it!

My son is almost 17 and I love discussing civil rights and the like with him. He's a passionate kid and a critical thinker.

Now if we could just get through the moments of teenage brain-farts, life would be grand...

[tigereye]

13. I like your sig pic!

:hi:


my son went with me to work at the Dem office in 2006, but I'm not sure he wants to glue more labels on mailers this time! ;)

[Fleshdancer]

5. I love talking about politics to my 7 yr old

She likes both Clinton and Obama and she thinks it's cool that we could be making history with this election. She leans more toward Clinton for the girl power which is what I expect from young girls. I remember the first time she found out we have never had a female president. It pissed her off for days. ;)

[tigereye]

14. when Mondale and ferraro ran back in the 80s

a friend's daughter - she was about 4-5 then, I think, said ," I want to vote for the guy with a woman on his team!"


I think we will see a woman president before too long.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. My kid is 29

and was once a total Bush-supportin', Limbaugh-Believer.

He is registered Independent (for now), and plans on voting the Democratic ticket no matter who the nom may be.

We have had many interesting discussions over tha last eight years....expect to have many more in the years to come ;)

[Karenina]

7. Mine are 20-somethings and they're a hoot!

But then again they've ALWAYS been. Calling the White House. E-mailing Scott McClellan. Telling me AFTERWARDS! :rofl:

[tigereye]

15. that's great!

I love how passionate kids and teens can be about these things...

[Breeze54]

8. Yes I do and apparently they like talking to me about politics too!

My two oldest sons called me from work (on lunch break) yesterday and they had me on speaker phone
and we had an hour long 4 way discussion about Super Tuesday and who we voted for and why and who
we will support in the GE and my youngest son was on the extension; so it was quite thrilling to me!!

:loveya: It was just awesome!!

[tigereye]

16. I can remember very few family dinner get-togethers in my family

when we became adults, where there wasn't some political discussion.

I love political families!

[Shine]

9. Yes, definitely...especially as they get older.

my 14 yr old son seems more interested than my 11 yr old dtr...but they both definitely know which was we swing....the the LEFT! :D

:hi: yesterday they took great pleasure in pointing out that somehow my "I have voted" sticker got onto my ass! Gee, I wonder how that happened....:eyes:

[tigereye]

17. that's a straight line if there ever was one, Shine!

I can't think of an immediate nice rejoinder for that one. :rofl:



:pals:


how have you been?

[Shine]

10. addendum: on the otther hand, I DON'T like talking politics with my mother

she's voting for McCain b/c he's "pro-life" and she's a staunch Catholic and that's her biggo wedge issue. :(

The hypocrisy of voting for a war-mongering candidate who says he's "pro-life" is mind-boggling. :crazy: Let's just say it's made for awkward conversation. We clearly DON'T see eye to eye, politically or otherwise, and probably never will.

[tigereye]

18. the interesting thing about some Catholic clergy is that they follow

the "seamless garment" philosophy - the idea that all forms of what they perceive as lack of respect for life should be paid attention to. I think that covers war-mongering, lack of care for the indigent, respect for children's welfare, and political machinations as well. Ironically that inconsistency doesn't always seem to be pointed out to those who have "one" issue such as abortion, and can't see the rest of the continuum.


The idea of Bush as anything approaching compassionate is patently ludicrous.

[Maine-ah]

11. she loves politics!

a flippin' genius too!

[tigereye]

19. aw, very cute!

[triguy46]

20. In 1992 when Bill won, I sat my kids, ages 12 and 8 and told them...

that it was an historic moment. They are now solid dems, and we update each other all the time with political news/trivia/opinions.

[tigereye]

22. it's really cool to think about what interesting adults kids become...

[triguy46]

27. The yin and yang of life...

My son is like my wife, and he is grad school in landscape architecture. Daughter is like me (but smarter) and will graduate Summa in May in accounting and has a job with a fortune 100 company and will get a top 10 senior in the business college. This from raising them on a farm in rural oklahoma, with basic simple values and the great outdoors for entertainment. I'm humbled by their successes. We still enjoy each other and have fun together, we are really close, yet allow their individuality (now that I've controlled and directed their higher ed successes!!!!)

[Xipe Totec]

21. No, but I enjoy listening to them

I find it works better.

Besides, they pay more attention to what I do than what I say.

[tigereye]

23. that's very interesting - food for thought...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. I do!

It's especially nice to hear them say things that they've obviously thought carefully about...even when their opinions differ from my own. I'm glad to know the gears are turning. :hi:

[murielm99]

25. We always talked about politics and current events

at dinner when my kids were growing up. I tried to make sure they had a sense of history, too, that they understood that things were not happening in a vacuum. My oldest daughter told me how much she appreciated that.

I tried to get them to understand that many of the news publications they read had a point of view. They understand how to read critically now.

They are all good Democrats. My son is the moderate one. He and I argue about politics, but we listen to each other, too.

[Heidi]

26. Our boy has absolutely no interest in politics.

He's more of the quiet, outdoorsy type. :P