Timeline for How to deal with parent's (grandparent's) extreme political views?
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| Oct 13, 2014 at 2:34 | answer | added | Rose | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 7:53 | comment | added | jwg | @DVK should we be talking about their specific schoolteacher then? Or the examples you've lovingly saved in your Favourites extremely relevant to any child? | |
| Jun 1, 2014 at 3:07 | vote | accept | Noah | ||
| Jun 1, 2014 at 2:48 | answer | added | user7868 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 30, 2014 at 14:09 | comment | added | user3143 | @jwg - we are talking about this specific grandparent in this question. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 14:06 | comment | added | jwg | @DVK I'm sure there exist at least 4 grandparents in the United States with views more extreme than the 4 teachers you cited. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 13:55 | comment | added | Noah | I rather appreciated the other-side-of-the-aisle insights that DVK provided in his answer, particularly because one case was in Philly, which is very close to me. I had a few teachers throughout my public schooling experience that also made mild political comments (from both sides), but kept things light-hearted and unoffensive, and largely as a joke between teachers (sending students to the next teacher's room to mention a comment about Bush). | |
| May 30, 2014 at 13:51 | comment | added | user3143 | @jwg - it was extremely relevant. Public school teachers hold significantly MORE extreme views (I actually provided links. How does telling a schoolchild that "criticizing Obama is illegal" grab you for moderation?) and have more of an authority on your child than a grandparent, both by position and time spent with the child. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 13:42 | history | edited | Noah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | jwg | @DVK, yes I did. I think it is fair enough for the OP to post some details (so that we are able to judge how 'extreme' her mother's views are). Your comment about public school teachers was quite gratuitous and provocative I thought. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 11:35 | comment | added | user3143 | @jwg - you didn't read the original version before edits | |
| May 30, 2014 at 9:56 | comment | added | jwg | @DVK, it seems like you're the one who is making this political. | |
| May 30, 2014 at 3:03 | answer | added | MGOwen | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2014 at 2:50 | answer | added | Sylas Seabrook | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 30, 2014 at 1:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackParenting/status/472191336301355008 | ||
| May 29, 2014 at 23:49 | answer | added | Placidia | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 29, 2014 at 23:29 | answer | added | Gayle | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 29, 2014 at 19:56 | comment | added | Chad | Perhaps the question could even be generalized to say that your mother discusses topics and expresses prejudices that you would prefer your daughter not be exposed to. | |
| May 29, 2014 at 19:23 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Noah: I think maybe your optimal approach is different between inaccurate and biassed but ultimately "legitimate" opinions like "Obama created those 2000 cases" that you don't want your daughter to believe is true, vs. speech you're prepared on principle to censor, such as "blanket threats to all members of specific other religions", that you don't want your daughter to believe is permissible to say. In fact, eventually your daughter will need to form an opinion about the difference, and "stuff grandma says" might provide plenty of examples for analysis. | |
| May 29, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Noah | @SteveJessop I should clarify that the blaming is not specifically just targeting the "be all, end all". I've (intentionally) left out some more inflaming comments / sentiments that she's expressed, simply because I feel that it would be beyond inappropriate. | |
| S May 29, 2014 at 19:07 | history | suggested | Chad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2014 at 18:49 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | I know this is only one aspect of what you don't like, but bear in mind that everyone will encounter people who blame everything on the head of government, irrespective of nationality, governmental system, or personal political bias. "The buck stops there". The real test is whether the person suddenly stops doing it when the other party gets in, which presumably this grandmother will. If not though, unbiassed griping about the president should be fine ;-) | |
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| May 29, 2014 at 18:06 | answer | added | Valkyrie | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 29, 2014 at 17:59 | answer | added | user3143 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 29, 2014 at 17:36 | history | edited | Noah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2014 at 16:44 | history | edited | Noah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2014 at 16:42 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 29, 2014 at 16:15 | history | asked | Noah | CC BY-SA 3.0 |