As the mother of an 8 year old third grade girl, I must speak on her behalf and many of her classmates. She has been moved to tears thinking that George Bush is going to bomb Iraqi children. I tell her he would never intentionally kill children, but that Saddam Hussein is a bad man (remember, she's 8) and might put his own people in danger to protect himself. Ok, so that said, I have encouraged her to make her voice heard and send her peaceful prayers to Iraqi children by lighting candles at Lake Harriet, attending peace rallies and if she wanted to, protest at her school. Children need to speak out in some way (protest at school) to release this horrible fear that is inside them because believe it or not, to them it seems like a real possibilty that if we can bomb Iraqi children, Iraq or some other country could bomb us. I don't feel this is brainwashing, it is sharing our family values.
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