Your Political Views and Your Kids

I am really, really liberal, like to the point that DH calls me a socialist and he's not very far off. Now that my DS is older, we often have conversations about politics, government, etc. I have noticed that I usually give him my viewpoint mostly, not so much the other side. (For example: "We believe that healthcare should be blah blah blah, but THEY believe blah blah blah.") So I'm giving the other side but not really in a way that's suggesting it is a valid belief.

My DH pointed out that I do this, and it bothered me because when I was teaching, I was SOOOO careful to be neutral with any political issues, to the point that on most issues my students had no clue where I stood personally.

So, are you careful to stay neutral with your kids in these kinds of discussions, or do they know where you stand? I know DS will develop his own opinions on this stuff eventually but I don't want to shove my beliefs down his throat (even though I'm right, of course )

PS- A funny story stemming from this.... my parents are very conservative, especially my dad. My DS made a comment on some issue to my dad, basically parroting something I had said. My dad looked at him for like a whole minute and said, "I see your pinko mother has gotten to you." And then walked away. I laughed and my poor DS was like LOL

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I am like you...I can not help it...or maybe I can but choose not to

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What's the point of having kids if you can't brainwash them into being just like us?

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No. I'm not careful to stay neutral. I give my opinion on any topic that they ask me.

Just like religion, I give them the basics & they can chose their own path for me to criticize & challenge later on.