I was raised in the part of the country where we say “Yes Maam” and “No Sir”, “Please” and “Thank You”. Children speak respectfully to their elders. As long as your son is abandoning manners and decorum for breakfast cereal, I gusee its ok.
If you are rising your son to be disrespectful to adults because of their political persuasion, I believe you are taking a page from the liberal play book.
My son has decorum. He does, in fact, use “Yes, Ma’am” and “Yes, Sir.” He also knows how to spell “guess” and knows the difference between “raising” and “rising.” You have the right to say what you think, albeit badly, and I have the right to raise my child to respectfully question when those in authority ask him to do something that they themselves are unwilling to do.
Tip O’Neill once said that “all politics is local.” You can’t get much more local than the breakfast table. David reacted on his scale the same way that I was reacting when I first attended a Tea Party. This was his outlet. My contribution to the project was to point out the hypocrisy of an administration that asks my son to stop eating a breakfast food for health reasons when those making the demands are unwilling to stop smoking or eating short ribs.
Big difference between disrespect and discernment, Little N00bie.