My son advocated for stopping at Wendy’s the other day for dinner, and got his brother and friend to ‘vote’ to stop, as well. He told me he was “using democracy.” I mean, at least he’s on the right track… as for me, I’ll be teaching my class about Election Day tomorrow, in a non-partisan way!
Oh, and we did not stop at Wendy’s… guess I’m a sort of dictator some days. 😂
I have absolutely had very similar conversations with my kids! It's so funny when they take the lessons they have learned and apply them to the family situations - at least it shows they are listening, I suppose. My kids have also claimed our pet rabbit has a vote and obviously he is on their side. (I suppose he would be, considering my older son is his main human, but still.) We really try to practice power-with instead of power-over with our kids, but there are still limits! We tell them that we try to take their perspectives and opinions into account as much as possible but our family is still not a full democracy.
My son advocated for stopping at Wendy’s the other day for dinner, and got his brother and friend to ‘vote’ to stop, as well. He told me he was “using democracy.” I mean, at least he’s on the right track… as for me, I’ll be teaching my class about Election Day tomorrow, in a non-partisan way!
Oh, and we did not stop at Wendy’s… guess I’m a sort of dictator some days. 😂
I have absolutely had very similar conversations with my kids! It's so funny when they take the lessons they have learned and apply them to the family situations - at least it shows they are listening, I suppose. My kids have also claimed our pet rabbit has a vote and obviously he is on their side. (I suppose he would be, considering my older son is his main human, but still.) We really try to practice power-with instead of power-over with our kids, but there are still limits! We tell them that we try to take their perspectives and opinions into account as much as possible but our family is still not a full democracy.