Posted on 11/25/2009 8:38:53 AM PST by markomalley
When President Obama announced plans to give a speech to the nation’s schoolchildren in September, it set off a frenzy among conservative commentators who deemed it, in the words of Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, an attempt to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.”
Now, with the release of Katharine DeBrecht’s latest children’s book, “Help! Mom! Radicals are Ruining My Country!” — which lampoons senior Democratic members of Congress, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank of Massachusetts — it is liberals’ turn to cry foul about the partisan poisoning of impressionable young minds.
The book is the fourth in DeBrecht’s series of “Help! Mom!” books. She first made a splash in 2005 with “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!” which generated press attention and still sells well. “Hollywood’s in My Hamper” and “The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity,” have not fared as well in the rankings.
DeBrecht’s books are at the forefront of a growing trend toward ideologically driven children’s fare and partisan publications in general in the past couple of years, book industry observers say.
“There’s always been children’s books about the political process, and in some cases even with a clear point of view,” said Kathleen T. Horning, director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But “the ones we saw starting about two years ago were really something different,” she said. They “demonstrated a mean-spiritedness that we don’t typically see in picture books for children.”
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Ka-ching!
Looking for a million dollar idea in a down economy!
Smart lady.
Yesterday in Canada, 700 people each paying $500.00, heard Al Gore lecture for one hour and the horrors of carbon.
What more can one say.
Pretty funny. However, I would keep it away from children until they are at least 11 or 12. Politics is very ugly stuff.
Haha serves them right.
Folks, I’m reading an EXCELLENT book.
The TRUTH just jumps out at you, like reading a Sowell book on economics.
It’s called “Truth and Transformation”. Written by an Indian with a perspective on Western freedoms and prosperity, and the requirement of Christian, bible based morality for both.
Makes a great stocking stuffer.
This idiot is equating the (alleged) POTUS abusing his office for personal aggrandizement with a private citizen selling a book?
*facepalm*
Not me.
My nine year old is reading Ann Coulter’s “How to talk to a liberal....”
My twelve year old just finished Beck’s book.
At one time I kept them away. Now they need to know.
Just like teaching children not to go off with strangers or look both ways before crossing the street.Children who are taught to be aware grow up safer.
Can't that's way too late. Kids get involved in politics early in Elem. school.
Prior to the 2008 election my granddaughter's school had a 'Vote for President' project (experiment?). She was in 2nd Grade and she voted for McCain. (Obama barely won)
I've always told my grandkids (her younger brother is now 5, the littlest just turned 1), that Democrats are evil, worse than the Bogeyman --- that they're all 'C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T-S'.
And they 'get it' when I explain it on their level, in a 'Toy Concept'.
IMHO, Kids and Politics never mix. Even if I happen to agree with the politics.
I guess we don’t really have much choice. It’s not really possible for kids to start their lives away from the world. Yet another reason why I will never have any. Ever.
That being said, I think that children should understand how our system works. Elections are an excellent teaching tool. However, the current thinking - which to me appears to be "ObamaObamaObama versus Mean Nasty Evil World-Destroying Republicans" - just ain't it.
I suppose, though, that it's too much for me to expect of today's teachers. Hell, if they can't teach basic math and reading, how could they be expected to teach critical thinking skills, present all sides of an argument, and leave it to the kids to decide for themselves?
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