Explaining election to the kids

[RandomHouseRules]

Have you talked to your kids about the election? We are quite politically interested so are talking about it a bit and my older one is taking a bit of an interest and starting to understand the concepts, but i'd like to explain more to the younger one (4yo). Any advice on how best to do this? We have been talking about blue teams and red teams but not sure we make any sense!!

[NeverEverAnythingEver]

And Isabella .

[NeverEverAnythingEver]

My DC are older (late primary). I tell them what I think. And I tell them that perhaps other people think differently and they are free to find out about them. They know what other people say. It's not like everyone else did not vote Tory.

[BroomstickOfLove]

NeverEver - that's why I'm the Returning Officer. I don't get a vote, which keeps the numbers uneven. The first year, I made it too complicated and it didn't work.

[redshoeblueshoe]

broomstick I like your plan

[Wecks]

Mine are old enough to vote this time but have been with me to polling booth many times. I must say though when they were younger I always tried to be scrupulous about explaining the policies of both sides and not my own views.
Once they were younger teenagers I would pay devil's advocate in political discussion. Only now do I debate fully expressing my own opinions.

[NeverEverAnythingEver]

Broomstick In our house I give the "people" the illusion of having any power at all to decide what we have for meals and then I cook whatever is good for them. I feel there's a political analogy somewhere... (Only joking. I am quite nice to the DC, really.)