Voting Should Feel Good

Look at this month's newsletter and see that Molly encourages you to bring your kids to vote with you and I encourage the opposite. Why? My experience with my own kids taught me that I feel better about voting when I'm not trying to keep my kids from taking down the voting booth or offending the older folks tired from working the tables. I think it's hard to concentrate when the kids are asking questions about the bake sale and getting bored with my distracted answers.

So I've learned to teach my children about voting in the comfort of my home. I vote from home with an absentee ballot sent to me by the county. It gives me time to think, read and look over the ballot and discuss the issues with my whole family. I can explain how it works to them in a very low pressure situation and I can even let them fill in the bubbles for me now that they are older. So I think it is great to teach your kids about voting - just not under the supervision of people with enough time on their hands to volunteer all day at the thankless polling places.