These people purporting to having their children make “their own” statements need to better consider the long term impact of having their children make public fools of themselves. Remember how awkward we all felt when that kid stood up at the council meeting and stammered and fumbled his way through his parents speech for him as he told the adults on the dais that they were on the take? Where were his parents?? That will require years of deep therapy to overcome for sure.
Agree. Leave the children out of it.
Even more horrifying, having a taste of expressing their opinion, the children might grown up to be bloggers…or the morons (like me) who post replies on blogs…
stop… your comments are much appreciated
Why is anyone even bringing this up?? Like 6 months too late to comment.
What don’t they deserve?
2:16, to try to prevent the next one.
You say “…the long term impact of having their children make public fools of themselves.” I prefer to call it “the long term impact of children learning civics, firsthand.”
Encouraging your child to go to the microphone and impugn the integrity of public officials simply because they happen to disagree with you isn’t teaching them civics it’s teaching them to be rude. Then again apples don’t fall far from the tree.