Our children are very close in age. Mine graduated 2009 and 2011. I did the same as you with the cell phones. Did your daughter get her attraction to socialism from college? I’ve had numerous friends have that happen. They will regret this path some day. It’s a shame that they won’t even talk about it in most cases. I just saw an article…
Our children are very close in age. Mine graduated 2009 and 2011. I did the same as you with the cell phones. Did your daughter get her attraction to socialism from college? I’ve had numerous friends have that happen. They will regret this path some day. It’s a shame that they won’t even talk about it in most cases. I just saw an article from a former woke woman who said the woke agenda doesn’t allow for actual discussion or learning about what are fighting. She converted to conservatism once she woke up!
Frankly think it probably started in HS, with some of her teachers, who I knew or suspected were lefties but thought her values she learned at home would over-ride that. We live in what used to be a red city (its turned purple sadly), and I mostly trusted the schools. If I knew now what I know then about what goes on in schools, I would have been more vigilant. She was an excellent student, graduated with 22 hours of college credit, while we had to constantly be on my son about his grades and put most of our focus on him. He also was much more open in talking about what went on in his classes, and we talked politics at the dinner table. I'm sure college sealed the deal though, although she ended up dropping out and changing schools & majors 3X before getting an associates, while my son got a bachelors degree in plastics engineering, although it took him 6 years. I think it's a little bit personality. She is a difficult person, always has been even as a child and butted heads with us constantly over everything. We just don't talk about politics around her these days, although it creeps in occasionally. Her husband is a gun enthusiast and she also bought a gun and they belong to a gun club, suspect he is not as liberal as her and he doesn't talk politics either, but he is a good man and makes her happy. Not sure how you are a 2A supporter and liberal but I have just learned to keep my mouth shut to maintain a civil relationship. And I pray, it's pretty much all I can do. She is a grown adult and gets to live with the consequences of her choices.
My sons had some very liberal teachers, but there was one who was the most outspoken. He tried to spew his rhetoric in class. They had his number and would challenge him about his crazy ideas. All I can say is she is very lucky to have a great mom like you. That is rare to have a liberal mindset and also support the second amendment. Maybe there is some hope after all and maybe some of those fellow gun club members will enlighten her along the way.
Yes, one of my son's history teachers (they both had different teachers as he was in regular classes while she was mostly in advanced, except in math) was also a counselor at the Boy Scout camp he attended and later worked at in the summers and got to know him well. He ended up leaving the district my son's senior year due to what he called too much liberal infiltration, and he said most teachers just keep their mouths shut about politics in the teacher's lounge, if they were conservatives. Should have been a red flag, but I again assumed (wrongly) that most of that was not creeping into the curriculum.
Our children are very close in age. Mine graduated 2009 and 2011. I did the same as you with the cell phones. Did your daughter get her attraction to socialism from college? I’ve had numerous friends have that happen. They will regret this path some day. It’s a shame that they won’t even talk about it in most cases. I just saw an article from a former woke woman who said the woke agenda doesn’t allow for actual discussion or learning about what are fighting. She converted to conservatism once she woke up!
Frankly think it probably started in HS, with some of her teachers, who I knew or suspected were lefties but thought her values she learned at home would over-ride that. We live in what used to be a red city (its turned purple sadly), and I mostly trusted the schools. If I knew now what I know then about what goes on in schools, I would have been more vigilant. She was an excellent student, graduated with 22 hours of college credit, while we had to constantly be on my son about his grades and put most of our focus on him. He also was much more open in talking about what went on in his classes, and we talked politics at the dinner table. I'm sure college sealed the deal though, although she ended up dropping out and changing schools & majors 3X before getting an associates, while my son got a bachelors degree in plastics engineering, although it took him 6 years. I think it's a little bit personality. She is a difficult person, always has been even as a child and butted heads with us constantly over everything. We just don't talk about politics around her these days, although it creeps in occasionally. Her husband is a gun enthusiast and she also bought a gun and they belong to a gun club, suspect he is not as liberal as her and he doesn't talk politics either, but he is a good man and makes her happy. Not sure how you are a 2A supporter and liberal but I have just learned to keep my mouth shut to maintain a civil relationship. And I pray, it's pretty much all I can do. She is a grown adult and gets to live with the consequences of her choices.
My sons had some very liberal teachers, but there was one who was the most outspoken. He tried to spew his rhetoric in class. They had his number and would challenge him about his crazy ideas. All I can say is she is very lucky to have a great mom like you. That is rare to have a liberal mindset and also support the second amendment. Maybe there is some hope after all and maybe some of those fellow gun club members will enlighten her along the way.
Yes, one of my son's history teachers (they both had different teachers as he was in regular classes while she was mostly in advanced, except in math) was also a counselor at the Boy Scout camp he attended and later worked at in the summers and got to know him well. He ended up leaving the district my son's senior year due to what he called too much liberal infiltration, and he said most teachers just keep their mouths shut about politics in the teacher's lounge, if they were conservatives. Should have been a red flag, but I again assumed (wrongly) that most of that was not creeping into the curriculum.