Why a President Biden Will Make Parenting So Much Easier

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Joe Biden never lies! He’s very nice!”

My son William, 6, started saying this a few weeks ago, a bit mysteriously. He wasn’t parroting me or his mom. We’re solidly blue parents in blue-bubble Brooklyn, but we haven’t been talking about the election at the dinner table with him or his sister Vivian, 8. This is probably a civic failing of us, but I’m sorry, it’s just too stressful. How do you explain the Trump presidency to young kids? As a resiliently popular exercise in criminality and power? How would we explain four more years of it?

Anyway, William’s little mantra came out of the blue, but in those pre-election weeks, I liked hearing it. Thank you kindergarten, I thought. Maybe his teacher taught him to say that, or a school friend with less bottled-up, anxious parents. William clearly believed what he was saying and in his ringing, upbeat voice I heard the clarity a six year old can bring to an election season like this one. “Joe Biden is a very nice man!” “Yes, he is, buddy!” I’d respond with feeling, but also hiding my dismay. Because what would I tell William if honest Joe, nice Joe, lost to Donald Trump? How could I explain the utter irrelevance of honesty and niceness in 2020 America to my tender-hearted six-year-old?

Now, I know that parents have no special claim on election-season distress. We’re all suffering. But with a Biden win in sight, within tantalizing grasp, I would like to define a special, singular brand of relief. What a joy it will be for parents of young children to be able to actually talk about the presidency at dinner. What a pleasure to speak about decency and honesty and niceness in the White House without treating those concepts as hypothetical. What a relief it will be to give voice to a few battered ideals, to engage in some semblance of actual patriotism, to moralize even! Yes, William, a president should be nice. No, William, a president does not lie. Yes, this country rewards character, decency, a capacity for empathy and selflessness.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/why-a-president-biden-will-make-parenting-so-much-easier/ar-BB1aJJ4d?li=BBnb7Kz

I'm sure anyone could be a better role model than Mr. "Grab em by the pussy."

[kimbutgar]

1. MF45 is the worst role model for children

He is an illiterate bully, threatens is rude, calls people stupid names, and has tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. Any parent would discipline a child with a timeout, go to your room, or lose privileges.

[rainin]

2. Both my children came of age in the era of Obama

I knew at the time we were lucky. They were already starting to question whether good people really win in life. The Obama years gave us 8 years of integrity, academic excellence, good old hard work and perseverance, charm, humor, humility, work ethic, and good husband all in one. It was a part of our daily life to watch how he governed and how he lived as an example to aspire to. Both my kids carry with them the lessons they learned from Obama to this day and will forever. I'm so grateful. I firmly believe my youngest will follow him into politics one day.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

Very nice story. The healing is already beginning. I am so looking forward to more of this.