Anonymous wrote:I don’t talk about politics to them, I just listen to my kids clowning Trump and every kid at school who supports him

Not a mature or helpful response

Hey...there was a post on here about Melungeons. Where did it go?

Anonymous wrote:Our children are adults and they live in another state. When they call we talk about what’s happening in their lives. We never talk about politics. It would be a waste of precious time.

Too bad

Our children are adults and they live in another state. When they call we talk about what’s happening in their lives. We never talk about politics. It would be a waste of precious time.

I don’t talk about politics to them, I just listen to my kids clowning Trump and every kid at school who supports him

Anonymous wrote:They know how much I love America. I am super jingoistic with a big flag up and I sing all the patriotic songs and love Fourth of July and am a total American history buff. J love all the things that make America great — freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, public education, the national park system, civil rights, the melting pot of immigrants who have come here, labor unions, voting riots, due process, the incredible history of scientific discovery and our federal government support for that. Yay America! We talk about all that regularly and they are very clear on all the wonderful things about America, and the fact that some people ate trying to undermine all that.
This land is your land, this land is my land…this land was made for you and me!

So you're a Woodie Guthrie jingoist? Not a Lee Greenwood one?

Ask kids what they want. Is it a toy, an experience, or to pick up on a new activity long term? Then get that for them (while they are still kids). If you don't, they could go through life feeling deprived and well...turn into that type of person occupying the people's home on 16th street who invaded a country to get a hand on the Nobel prize and is mad at Greenland because he thinks they are the ones who award the coveted prize. Oh yeah, and read to them and with them. Maybe they will be less dumb and won't think Norway and Greenland are the same country, or something.

As people reflect on Dr MLK Jr day:

"The same people who will inevitably praise and misquote Dr. King about being colorblind are in fact funding a regime that is actively racially profiling individuals on the street to ask for their papers. They are the very same people canceling critical health research grants for the mere mention of the word “diversity” in a grant proposal. Brace yourself – hypocrisy will be on high display in America come Monday."

"Though Dr. King was committed to non-violence, that did not make him a so-called moderate in his demands for change. Dr. King was fiercely opposed to systemic racism. He was anti-war and critiqued the United States for placing “insatiable military demands” above the critical needs of our own underprivileged citizens. Dr. King called out Democrats and Republicans alike for not doing enough to advance civil rights. He believed in racial alliances and labor solidarity to break economic inequality. It is crazy the number of speeches and writings of King in the 1960s that apply to our current times. But as it turns out, racism was not just “a passing phase” in the cycles of our nation’s life."

"Given the way school curriculums are set today, I hope that people have read King’s work beyond “I Have a Dream.”"

Speech: The Three Evils of Society, keynote address delivered at the National Conference on New Politics, Chicago, IL, August 31, 1967

Speech: Beyond Vietnam, speech at Riverside Church in New York City, February 4, 1967

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

Sermon: The Drum Major Instinct, sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA February 4, 1968."

We talk about power. We talk about lot about human behavior and psychology. Specifically, we talk about educated, intelligent people we know with incongruent thinking.

We talk about the 1/3 who wanted something horrific in history, the 1/3 you resisted and the 1/3 who just watched indifferent.

I remind my kids that men have not historically fought for women’s rights globally when oppressive regimes suppress women and their future freedom is at risk.

And then we order pizza and hope.

Boom and Bust.

How to be prepared for the future by getting an education, not resting on your laurels and seeking out new opportunities.

They know how much I love America. I am super jingoistic with a big flag up and I sing all the patriotic songs and love Fourth of July and am a total American history buff. J love all the things that make America great — freedom of speech, the separation of church and state, public education, the national park system, civil rights, the melting pot of immigrants who have come here, labor unions, voting riots, due process, the incredible history of scientific discovery and our federal government support for that. Yay America! We talk about all that regularly and they are very clear on all the wonderful things about America, and the fact that some people ate trying to undermine all that.
This land is your land, this land is my land…this land was made for you and me!

The mania for naming things...I would talk about the Shelley poem Ozymandias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

Mine are high school and we absolutely talk about current events. It’s a good way to get clues to the type of media they consume and make sure the boys don’t get red pilled.

How empires decline from the ancient times to today.

What are you and your kids discussing re news coming out from left and right in the US? Or do you not discuss with them?