Agreed Zeld; however, you're doing your kids a disservice to not instill your values and beliefs in them. To sit back and think that the world will teach your children all they need to know, is nothing more than a lazy parent. There's a million and one learning experiences they'll encounter that you have no control over. Seems to me, you have the obligation to explain to your children why you believe what you do, the opportunity to do it, and hope it influences how they process these outside experiences you have no control over.
it's not like this book is on the New York Times bestseller list. I wouldn't feel the need to resort to a book like this to teach my children values. In fact, if a parent feels the need to utilize whatever benefits they think this book has to offer - well that kids got a lot more obstacles to overcome than whatever venom this book might inject them with. If i were a betting man, i'd put money on the fact that not one conservative will read this book as a bedtime story for their little ones. Here's where i'm going to show my true colors though: If it were "Help Mom, there are conservatives under my bed", you'd see this one in every kindergarten class in the country (remember the teacher that wore the "not my president" t-shirt to her kindergarten class).
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