I have kids in elementary school and kindergarten. How do I keep them from becoming libtard? Any advice would be welcome.
Home school.
Don’t send them away to college. Keep them off Facebook as long as possible. Take them to church. Pray.
1. Discuss politics and the Constitution in a dinner setting a few evenings per month - nothing heavy or excessive, but enough to show them you feel it is important.
2. During election years, ask them how they would vote if they were old enough to do so.
3. Finally, never force your beliefs upon them. Rather, question them about their beliefs and ask them questions to support or refute their beliefs.
I homeschool my kid. So far he’s not a libtard. There’s nobody around him to indoctrinate him as a libtard.
Start now. I taught mine during Halloween - suggested that they go walk the neighborhood, even if it were cold and/or raining. And then, hand over half their goodies to the kids who were too lazy to go walk with them but wanted the candy!
I’m being silly but I truly did do the above, more than once.
There are countless ways, trust yourself, you got this!
Two things that help prevent liberal mental disorder in my experience :
1. Don’t force political beliefs down your kids throats. Let them experience life. When they hit their teen years, they’re going to rebel ... It simply ‘happens’ as part of the human experience. Sometimes the rebelling is tempered, other times kids go full retard. Schools used to take advantage of this “hostility” and use that to each writing/expressing oneself. These days they use it to get them pissed a out the USA, but I digress ... What will happen is that kids know you cherish your conservative beliefs ... When they’re rebelling teens, that will be used against you when they fight back. The wrong kinds of teachers will pick up on this and make things worse.
2. Don’t coddle your kids. Do your best to make their childhood as pain free as you can ... That’s the point of being a parent to a young kid ... Support. However, once they start to get older, cut off some of that support. As soon as they start to see how the real world works, they’ll have developed some fundamental skills to solve problems versus whining about them and looking for BigGov to take care of them.
I say this as a parent today and former “rebel” in my youth :-). I have three kids in my life ... Two are doing well in their early 20s (my daughter and a stepson) ... Both are Trump supporters and see the big picture. I also have a toddler (yeah, big age gap :-) ) ... Too soon to tell of course, but the kid has an uncanny knack of getting things done on his own when he wants to :-).
Teach them business sense. How to build/create/invent/etc. Teach them financial responsibility. But most of all, teach them that if there is something about their life that they don’t like, then they are the ones responsible for changing it.
Point out that if they want to help the less fortunate, then they should do it themselves, instead of expecting Daddy government to do it for them.
I don't know if this is the advice you need or not. Frankly I am stunned reading this post and the comments with it. We have 3 millenial grandchildren who are excited to be voting and they are voting Trump. At my family table political discussions and historical events and consequences are standard daily conversation. Other people's children who are now adults have frequently told me they like our company because we didn't treat them like children. They say we listened, replied to them and explained consequences as though they were adults. I took friend's kids on camping trips with my kids and I. I talked politics to them. They were open to hearing my "stories" around, table, campfire, sitting at the lake, whereever. Needless to say, my kids are political junkies like me. I didn't try to preach and lots of other things discussed too. But just start telling them truth when they are young. Kids love stories. Bible stories have political applications as well as spiritual. History is one HUGE story of mankind. Make it funny. Listen to what they say. If they go left in their replies, tell them why you go right without condemnation. But always give examples using consequences of left leaning choices. Help any? Remember kids are sponges.