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flac  ·  1255 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Veterans Day

Gotta say, it's really surreal working at a childcare center where we can't even talk directly about Halloween for fear that certain families might not celebrate it, but have no problem talking to kids (like, 3-year-old kids) about a day that celebrates "the people protecting our freedom" totally uncritically.





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flac  ·  1255 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I certainly wouldn't deny that there's good reason for Veteran's Day writ large, I just think it's a really strange thing to be celebrating with kids this young. It's hard to get into the concept of a just war with 3-year-olds, let alone give a decent, age-appropriate answer to 'what do soldiers do now' ("try and help people" was the best I could do).

But maybe my hackles are just raised from my last job, where I genuinely had a parent complain that "Paw Patrol" was fascist brainwashing. Also had a kid who watched footage of WWII bombings with his dad, and then unsurprisingly spent a lot of time air-raiding his classmates with pinecones. Somewhere in the middle is a reasonable stance, just not sure what it is myself.

tacocat  ·  1255 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's actually about fighting for no reason other than a bunch of treaties got invoked after a prince was shot