Election Day

Today I will take my kids with me when I go to vote.  It is usually a chaotic process to coral children while trying to participate in the democratic process, but I want them to see how important it is to be involved and at the very least vote.

When I was a kid, we were a Navy family and therefore my parents voted absentee, a method does not make it easy to involve a child in the process.  In fact, I don't remember ever seeing my parents vote, although I know they did.

Politics wasn't really a hot topic when I was growing up.  When I was in high school, my friends and I plastered our cars in Perot bumper stickers and got involved in the political process for the first time.  Then I went to college, majored in theatre and didn't even watch the news.  When I started working in the real world is when my political renaissance occurred.

I want my children to know what is going on in the world and to know that they can make a difference.  So, today I will take them to vote.  Someday I hope that they will take their children to vote and we plant the seeds for generations of involved citizens.

Comments

[Christy]

I remember going with my mom to vote. I thought those old booths with the pull levers were so cool, lol.

The county I live in now will go 100% absentee/mail-in voting by the presidential election next year. It is sad that my children will not get to have memories of standing next to me at the booth, instead it will be of me filling out a mail in scantron.

[amy]

yeah, good stuff
I take mine too ")