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Teaching about the election year

Being that this is an election year, it is a perfect opportunity to educate my children about the election process and to allow them to watch more closely as the events unfold. As we began our discussions on this, I found out that terms such as caucus and platform were new to them and the Electoral College was a little difficult to explain. I even found myself learning along side them as we discovered that the federal elections are held on the first Tuesday in November after the first Monday to avoid it falling on All Saints Day, which is a holy day of obligation for the Catholic church. The Old Schoolhouse has a wonderful Presidential Election Process Lapbook that makes learning fun and takes a lot of guess-work out of the subject matter. The results are captured within the Lapbook. It is a little time consuming and it involves quite a bit of cutting and gluing, but it is well worth the effort.

After watching the debates as a family, the children were naturally interested in who we were planning on voting for. We tried to explain to them that Catholics have a moral obligation to promote the common good through the exercise of our voting privileges, but voting cannot be arbitrary. Some things are always wrong, and citizens support these evils indirectly if they vote in favor of a candidate who proposes to advance them. The five non-negotiable issues that fundamentally conflict with moral law (abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem call research, human cloning and homosexual marriage) are looked at in the following video.

Let us all pray for guidance as we select the next leader of our great country.

Home School moments...

You know you're a home schooler when...

You know you're a home schooler when someone asks your pre-teen daughter what her favorite song is and instead of naming a song from the Jonas Brothers or from High School Musical, she answers, "Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor".