I tried to keep my 4-year-old out of it, but other relatives intervened, and then he’s saying that he’s worried that Trump is going to put Hillary in jail. I told him, “hey, you do the crime, you have to do the time!”
Sadly, I know of someone that has done this with their child.
OK, I think I have now named a new syndrome.
Munchausen Syndrome is when you poison yourself for sympathy, and get well, over and over.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is even sicker—it’s when parents (usually women) make their children ill so they can play “rescuer”and get them treatment, needless surgery, etc. Sometimes the child dies.
We now have “Political Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”, where leftist parents create emotional trauma by demonizing Trump and scaring the dickens out of the kid, and then promising to “protect” their traumatized children from this imaginary bogeyman.
Mental illness in each case.
My oldest is already quite adept at divining the true motivations behind each liberal push she encounters.
I was quite proud when my gradeschoolers came home laughing at all the "triggered" "snowflakes" trembling in the halls.
"Dad, what causes that?"
"A poor home life in an overly emotionalist household devoid of logic and generally bad parenting."
I don’t know, my kids are still celebrating. The ones old enough to vote and the ones not :) This was my 18 y/o’s first election to vote. Best. Election. Ever.
Time to find a different school. My wife and I learned quickly that "daycare" means you have delegated the teaching of principles to a "for pay" provider who may not share your values. We stopped the daycare thing and my wife ceased working. The daycare cost everything she earned and more. It was a complete waste for her to work.
My children are in middle school. I’m more political than my husband, and took our 11 year old son to Tea Party meetings the past few months. He enjoyed feeling like an adult.
When there was an argument at school on Trump vs Hillary, someone said Trump hates women, which is why all women will vote for Clinton. My son said no they won’t, no he doesn’t. “Who told you that?” he was challenged.
“My mom.”
There was this dumb shocked, what, a mother said she supports Trump? They couldn’t fathom the idea and called him a liar before telling him to shut up his hate or keep it at home.
I hate the liberal viewpoint of “conservatives take your Christian views and get thee to the ghetto”, and then deliberately infiltrating said cultural ghetto to either force it to change or shut it down. And if you have to keep your faith and politics at home for fear of hate mobs at best screaming profanities and at worst lynching, you don’t have a free society.
My middle schooler is naturally conservative - I don't know that it will last - but he just seems to be made that way.
The weird thing is he gets mail from the RNC and Donald Trump and my husband and I who are registered Republicans have never received anything.
He also told me that his school voted 49% to 29% Trump over Hillary on election day (the rest were 3rd party votes). When he got off the bus and told me that Tuesday afternoon is when I knew we were going to win! (This is in upstate NY btw).
But it is just fine when conservative Christians are made to fear when a Marxist Muslim takes control of the Oval Office, and rules by fiat.
Leftists and double standards are inseparable.