Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Life lessons from Mr. President

The kids watched President Obama's speech today in class with their teacher. This, after the inane hubbub about whether the President was overstepping his bounds by orating to our children about the importance of responsibility in education. (PSHAW! Shame on him!) And yes, I was floored when they sent out permission slips to the parents to opt-out of having your kids not watch the speech and instead, do some alternate activity during the 20 minute duration of the speech.

When I asked Hannah and Luke about President Obama's speech this morning (what they thought of it and what they learned) they both proudly exclaimed, "We learned about how important it us for us to take responsibility for our education. Not exaggerating the quote. From my 4 3/4 year olds.

OK, how can you NOT LOVE that 4 year olds were able to take away that message from Obama today? There's certainly nothing partisan about some classic messages:

Stay in school.
Work hard.
Dream big.
Achieve your goals.
And, OWN it. Your education, your future.

Love it. Love it.

I will play this speech for them every year before they start school in the fall. I swear.

3 comments:

Polly said...

Awwww I want an Obama for myself. About the best we get from Kev is "Fair suck of the sauce bottle" Not really sure what any of us can learn from that.....

Fleur said...

They are obviously the products of some very thoughtful parents! You are right to be very proud. They are smarter than like 47% of the country.

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