Bless my daughter's little liberal heart!

[Stuckinthebush]

So, we are at my in-laws for Thanksgiving yesterday and my 10 year old is playing happily with her 9 year old cousin. My wife's brother and his wife are big time Republicans and fundamentalist Christians. We have learned that it is best not to discuss politics or religion since we are big time liberals and agnostic. We always have a fine time together if we steer clear of those two items.

My daughters love their cousins and all family members get along well. Yesterday, my 10 year old had a revelation. My wife walked into a room where the 10 and 9 year old were playing, and my daughter looked at my wife with mouth hanging open, pointed to her cousin and said rather incredulously:

"Mom! She doesn't believe in global warming and thinks George Bush is actually a good president! Can you believe that?"

My wife quickly said something about different beliefs and respect, etc. etc.

While walking out she heard my daughter mumble, "Wow....that's just...wow..."

LOL!

Bless her liberal heart!

:D

[0007]

1. I know the feeling! n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. LOL Out of the mouths of babes

Aren't kids great?

[Stuckinthebush]

4. I love 'em!

They are wonderful. Of course, we teach them our beliefs and my brother in law teaches his daugher his beliefs but I have to think the differnce is that we teach ours to be critical thinkers. We say, "This is what we believe and this is why. Here is the evidence and here is the lack of evidence for the other side. What do you think?"

Whereas my BIL says, "This is the truth."

Big difference, huh?

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. The day I knew I had done something right was when my son was 8

We had a new neighbor who was African American. He was building a house right down the street from ours and had done quite a bit of the work himself so most of us in the neighborhood had met him before he moved in. A few days before he moved in, someone vandalized the house by spray painting the N word all over it. It was a HUGE deal. We got home that afternoon and I had never seen so many police cars in my life. And TV reporters from all the local stations were there too. The cops came knocking on every door wanting to know if we knew who had done this.

After all this excitement, my 8 year old son asked if he could ask me a question. "Mom, I don't get it. Why do people not want a Black family to be our neighbor?"

My husband looked over at me and smiled. We still say, over 20 years later, that this was the day we knew we were decent parents.

[Stuckinthebush]

8. That'll bring tears to your eyes

beautiful story!

[NJCher]

11. I echo that (not ditto)

Sweet, sweet story.



Cher

[peacebird]

9. you definitely did a good job raising your son! Congrats!

:hug:

[DFW]

3. Good for her!

I have two of those myself.

Now in their twenties and studying in the USA, the one in
Law school says there are "even a few Republicans around,"
as if they were from another planet (might not be too far off, there).

The other one is studying Fashion Design--those people don't even
know what Republicans are!

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Great news.

And just think, your daughter will be added to several prayer chains. :evilgrin:

[Stuckinthebush]

6. HAAA!

I didn't even think about that!

Oh god, now that is hilarious.

"Please pray for little Stuckinthebushette. She is deceived by wicked liberals. Amen."

[peacebird]

10. Good for her! and good on you too!

:hug:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

12. My kid was 7 last year...

and in the first grade. They were doing a class project called "If I Was President" and he wrote "I would stop the war in I Wack." Then I corrected his spelling for him and later we got the campaign button design that they displayed in the hallway: "Vote for me because 'I would end the war in Iraq.'"

The war in Iraq is wack.