Personally, I've tried to keep WBill Jr. *away* from politics - even away from pols that I might happen to support. That's not easy, sometimes. We had a member of our church run for an office, and come looking for "help" (stuffing envelopes, licking stamps, delivering signs, 5 million other things that go into a campaign). I said "No" as far as my kids were concerned - even though I personally liked her, voted for her, thought that she was honest and would do (actually, did) a good job.
IMO, kids should be kids and not political props. They've got the rest of their lives to deal with adult nonsense like politics. No need to roll them around in the slime at an early age.
YMMV. That's just my opinion.
“IMO, kids should be kids and not political props.”
I agree with that.
We homeschool, and I consider political engagement, at a rally, for example, to be a teachable moment for our kids’ civics curriculum. Never too early to instruct our kids about the blessings and responsibilities of citizenship.
Young men and women really can do amazing things, if given the opportunity. We tend to have terribly low expectations of them. But they can do great things. Consider young George Washington, for example:
“Talk of securing an appointment in the Royal Navy for him when he was 15 was dropped when his widowed mother objected. At the age of 17, in 1749, Washington would receive his surveyor’s license from the College of William & Mary. Thanks to Lawrence’s connection to the powerful Fairfax family, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.”
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington )
Or consider David Farragut, who became the first admiral of the US Navy:
When he was just 9 years old, “Farragut was commissioned a midshipman in the United States Navy.... A prize master by the age of 12, Farragut fought in the War of 1812, serving under Captain David Porter. While serving aboard USS Essex, Farragut participated in the capture of HMS Alert on August 13, 1812, then helped to establish America’s first naval base and colony in the Pacific.... Farragut was 12 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the Essex safely to port.”
Young men and women *can* do great things, if equipped and given the opportunity.