My 4 year old spends most of her day with my conservative husband.
This may be obvious.
Last night I peeled a dozen apples to make Levee High Apple Pie.
My 4yo said, "Let's play a trick on Barack Obama. Let's bake the table scraps in a pie and send it to him." Then she laughed and rubbed her hands together like she was Dr. Evil.
Later, when we told her idea to the rest of the family, my 6yo objected and said, "NO! We can't do that or he will punish us and take all of our money!"
To which my 4yo replied, "He's already going to take all of our money, we should send him the table scraps!"
Kit, I recently started following your blog and I love it! Your kids sound like they must keep you on your toes. This post had me laughing, as my own father sounds very similar to your husband. Thanks for the smiles and the "tips." I'll keep reading for sure.
Posted by: Carlie | October 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM
LOL, omg that is something that would happen to us. Crap.
The other day our 8 year old said "I hate Democrats".
WHY?!?!?
Posted by: Her from @6degreeslove | October 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Quite an astute 4yo I would say!
Posted by: Ken | October 27, 2011 at 04:03 PM
Interesting view on politics;)
Posted by: MangoChutney | October 27, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Oh..that IS funny!!
Posted by: Chris | October 27, 2011 at 06:22 PM
Oh.... I just love your blog.... Even more now ;)
Posted by: shauna | October 27, 2011 at 11:08 PM
*lol*
Posted by: twitter.com/dudgeoh | October 27, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Gotta teach that hate early . . . .
Posted by: Miriam | October 28, 2011 at 08:01 AM
Soooooo funny! But so very perceptive of the 4yo.
Posted by: Joe G | October 28, 2011 at 08:36 AM
I love the way a kid's mind works - when is "sending apple scraps" mean?
Posted by: John | October 28, 2011 at 08:46 AM
wow, kinda not sad you think teaching your kids hate is funny.. unfollow :p
Posted by: C | October 28, 2011 at 04:13 PM
Sigh...this is not teaching hate. I think our president has thick enough skin to handle good-natured ribbing by a 4 year old child.
FOLLOW :D
Posted by: J | October 28, 2011 at 07:43 PM
Sounds to me kind of like you're teaching your kids emotional, reactionary ways of responding to politics. Pretty unreasonable and misleading too. I really love your posts about relationships with your kids and husbands, but I'm not a huge fan of when you inject your personal politics in to them. I hesitate to post things like this, because it's your blog and you can post whatever you'd like, but it seems ugly compared to the rest of your posts and it's beginning to give me second thoughts about visiting because they seem to be getting more frequent.
There, rant over! Sorry, I just had to say it!
Posted by: Samantha | October 28, 2011 at 07:46 PM
I'm a flaming tree-hugging crystal-sucking liberal. I'm sure my kids have picked up on my political opinions too. God alone knows what THEY will think when they grow up. Your blog is funny as hell. I'm still reading it and I give not even a microscopic shit about your politics. I also don't burn albums or books if they are done by someone who disagrees with my opinions.
Of course, if we were having coffee or whatnot I'd have to tell you why you were wrong ... :)
Posted by: Betty Fokker | October 28, 2011 at 08:46 PM
Do what you do...just the way you want to do it. I'm sure some people disagreed with Thoreau and refused to read him too. Their loss!
Posted by: Bill Sullivan | October 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Kit, do you have more than one husband? Just wondering if the poster above knows something I don't. ;-) Clearly, your politics will be the end of civilization. Polygamist. :-)
Posted by: Sasha | November 01, 2011 at 03:27 PM