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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I discuss my political views with my children, just as I discuss my religious beliefs with my children. 
I teach them we are Christian and what that means, I teach them Jesus wants us to love one another, to care for the least in society and to think of others before ourselves and respect others. 
I also each them that my political views parellel this, and that I don't think Donald Trump represents our values. We discuss racism and sexism and why they are bad. 
We also discuss democracy and why we were disappointed and saddened by the election and yet accept it peacefully. 
I think that discussing these topics are an important part of parenting and to not discuss them would be strange. 
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I've been teaching my kids that they need to identify the good and bad in each candidate.  That who I vote for is not their business as I want them to make informed decisions on their own.  That it is ok to disagree with someone, but that everyone deserves respect.  They need to stand up for what they believe in.  My family came from countries where they did not have those freedoms.  They came from places where teaching their native language in their own country was deserving of capital punishment, and yet they worked organically to change that.  I don't want to create mini-me's.  I want to make them to make them the best possible versions of themselves.  [/quote]

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