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close to 70 per cent of young people ………said they felt aligned to the party of their parents.
Husband has warned me countless times not to thrust my political views onto my innocent children but sometimes I just can’t help myself. I had no idea how much attention they pay my spontaneous mutterings until today:
4 year old (listening to radio in car): Who is this man who keeps talking all the time?
Me: It’s Kevin Rudd.
4 year old: Why is he talking?
Me: Because he wants to be the Prime Minister. You know how John Howard is our Prime Minister? Well Kevin Rudd wants to be Prime Minister.
4 year old: Oh no!
Me: Well, it wouldn’t be that bad a thing to have a different Prime Minister.
4 year old: Because John Howard lies?
Me: Well…yes, John Howard sometimes doesn’t say the whole truth but so do other…
4 year old: and he doesn’t care about the people?
Me (secretly beaming with pride): Um…. Let’s just change the radio station, shall we?
Sorry husband, we have another potential Greenie in the family.
Actually no – not very sorry at all.
Haha, there’s our next political columnist
We don’t talk politics at all, in fact if I asked who the Prime Minister was, I’d probably get a response that contained the word Transformers (after Optimus Prime of course)
maybe go and nail THIS to the door (ala martin luther) of the mosque if they need any more good reasons as to why endorsing the libs is an offensive against muslims and…uhh…humanity in general:
“Liberal race hate scam exposed on poll eve”
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/21/1195321871812.html
haha, teaching your children honesty and fairness is enough to enable them to make the right political choices later in life. I think you are doing great
Ya Haqq!