Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Where?-- by Lindsay


With the 2012 Presidential election just around the corner, candidate commercials take over families' television screens, surveys are sent in the mail, and pestering phone calls drive households up the wall. And while families discuss politics at the dinner table, the occasional debate arising between adult voters explaining their opinions, it's not unusual for children, family or not, to wonder what is going on, what all of this mumbo-jumbo means. Cutting taxes? Who cares. Healthcare? Whatever. But what they don't know is that this will affect their futures, that the country they live in now may be changed, different forever in the future. Little do parents know, the conversations that happen at home concerning politics and beliefs are absorbed by the other members of the home-- in this case, kids. It isn't unlikely that what kids hear spreads beyond where these exchanges of views were intended to go. Although children have their own minds, their own ideas, they absorb their parent's decisive views and make them their own, because it seems so right; Parents know what's best, and if they know what's best, then politics are no exception. When seriously thinking about it, there is hardly a single place that children can go that gives off unbiased notions based on which political party someone is. So the question is, where can America's children go to learn the facts? The unbiased facts. The real facts.

 

3 comments:

  1. I really like this because you do a great job of highlighting the main things that go through a child or teen's head during this time. I like your points and I really like your voice that you have throughout the whole piece. ~Liz

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  2. Lindsay-
    This is so, totally true. Kids these days (at least most) have little to no understanding of what is happening in the world of politics because their parents are too busy arguing their point over one another that they don't even begin to notice the confused look on the kid's face, and I think you make this really clear, like Liz said. I think that you could (if you wanted) make this sort of a persuasive/informative essay that higlights the problems kids are having, then propose a solution.
    Liesl

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  3. I agree with the comments above. There's not much else I can really say! Keep up the good work :p

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