What price are your children paying (and will continue to pay)...

for the policies implemented by the *bushco administration?

1. Education

2. Health care

3. Dismantling of the middle class

4. No enforcement of corporate responsibility and regulation (food, toys etc)

5. Global warming and/or future resource wars


How are you coping and preparing your children for a rocky road ahead?

1. I vote for people who think NCLB has serious issues.
2. Health care - hmm, just telling him to be aware, not eat a lot of fats and he also read "Supersize this" Also he worked on the last campaign with me.
3. Middle class - vote for Dems, I think. He thinks we are poor since we don't live in a McMansion. We try to emphasize global awareness and awareness of the homeless and poverty in a sense that he can comprehend. SInce he's 11 he "gets" a lot more than he used to. I tell him a lot that if you work hard and get an education that you have more choices than if you don't.
4. Corp. resp? - discussing commercials and what they mean. De-emphasizing consumerism to some extent - always a battle. He knows why there are regulatory laws.
5. Env. Resp - well, his school is pretty green- oriented, does community service type stuff and kids now are taught more about green and the environment. He has a kid version of Al Gore's book on his reading list. When he had the finite resources chapter in science, we talked some about water pollution and other forms of pollution.


I don't know that the road ahead is going to be that much more rocky - I tend to be someone who sees political cycles change over time. I think an awareness of history and global inter-relatiionships are the best tools to keep perspective. That being said, he knows we don't like Bush and listens to a lot of NPR! ;)