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How to explain these things to our kids

Posted on 08/03/2009 7:27:40 PM PDT by Rethgryn

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1 posted on 08/03/2009 7:27:40 PM PDT by Rethgryn
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There are many adults who need an explanation.


2 posted on 08/03/2009 7:30:21 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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I don’t see things getting better.


3 posted on 08/03/2009 7:34:44 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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So a comic book would be a great idea.


4 posted on 08/03/2009 7:35:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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Make sure it starts out positive both for family and Hussain. Show how he plans to change things and how the deceits snowball, with possible scenerios for the future.


5 posted on 08/03/2009 7:37:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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Also include a basic explanation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Could be a big seller.


6 posted on 08/03/2009 7:38:08 PM PDT by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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So a comic book would be a great idea.

Good idea. The title can be "Congress".
7 posted on 08/03/2009 7:38:52 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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There are many adults who need an explanation

Well, that ended this thread in a hurry :)

8 posted on 08/03/2009 7:42:27 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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As long as kids are in public school … no coloring book is going to help them. One hour with a coloring book as apposed to six hours with a school system that promotes socialism and untold hours of TV that does the same. Good luck.


9 posted on 08/03/2009 7:42:47 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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Remember Classics Illustrated?

That might be the best format for adults and kids.

Back when I was in college there were some leftist comic style treatises which did a fairly credible job explaining stuff like Marxism, and in about 80 pages or so, with carton illustrations of Carl and Engels and Rosa Luxembourg and Lenin.

I’ll tell you, it explained that stuff to me and saved me a lot of trouble having to read that crap.

I’d do cartoon books on historical topics: take Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the French Revolution” and show the actual history of the Revolution and how Burke predicted the Terror three years before it happened.

Kids need to be made historically literate, then they’ll get wise.


10 posted on 08/03/2009 7:42:57 PM PDT by tsomer
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I have seen exactly (I think) what you’ve described and will attempt to dredge it up forthwith.


11 posted on 08/03/2009 7:45:49 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
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Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6p5QPVhPI


12 posted on 08/03/2009 7:48:23 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
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Good idea...I like the coloring book idea.
Use PA dutch artwork, allows for alot of colors to be used.
Leave a blank page next to each picture so that they
can insert there thoughts, like a little diary they can do
everyday. Make like a monthly book with at least 31 pages to
color. Good luck


13 posted on 08/03/2009 7:49:10 PM PDT by savage woman
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I hate to think of our kids being recruited by the liberal media and liberal infiltrators in our schools to support socialism.

That reminds me of my first encounter with forced collectivism from the public schools system.

It was my second or third day of kindergarten, and our teacher was introducing us to our daily routine, which started off with the pledge of allegiance. I didn't like to say it, so I would stand there with my hand over my heart and wait for the rest to finish. Well, my teacher noticed and decided to nip my non-conformity in the bud. She told me that if I continued to refuse to say the pledge, that the police would come and take me away. Naturally, that got the intended result out of my five-year-old self.
14 posted on 08/03/2009 7:56:53 PM PDT by Rodebrecht (</government>)
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Somebody please explain it to me. I took my US flag down after the election. I can't bring myself to put it back up. I'm thinking of flying the Gadsden instead...
15 posted on 08/03/2009 8:02:58 PM PDT by Rio (Don't make me come over there....)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

That was great..


16 posted on 08/03/2009 8:06:13 PM PDT by savage woman
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Incredible, isn’t it? 50+ years old and very timely. The bad news is its use of the auto industry, I suppose.


17 posted on 08/03/2009 8:09:00 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
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...It's a start, maybe FR folks with chillins around will think about after school. I'm writing, drawing, got my grand daughters crayons out to express my self. Good on yer...
18 posted on 08/03/2009 8:16:39 PM PDT by gargoyle (...My thoughts are not seditious, or treasonous, they're revolutionary...)
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Already done.The movie is called Animal Farm.


19 posted on 08/03/2009 8:26:25 PM PDT by krizzy
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It’s already been written. It’s called “Animal Farm” by Orson Wells.


20 posted on 08/03/2009 8:29:57 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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