Things kids say.

[Darkhorse]

I took my wife to kohls over the weekend and we parked beside a vehicle that belonged to a Gold Star family.


They had a picture of their soldier in a yellow ribbon, I told my sons 10 and 5 they he was killed while fighting in Iraq.

This is for @wsfiredude @SPM
The five year old ask me very seriously was he a Redcoat or American? I said American.

My kids love history they play Americans and Redcoats not Cowboys and Indians.

 

[SPM]

This is for @wsfiredude @SPM
The five year old ask me very seriously was he a Redcoat or American? I said American.

My kids love history they play Americans and Redcoats not Cowboys and Indians.

That's awesome. My kids are the same way - Independence Day for us last year started with my daughter (5 at the time) and son (not quite 2 at the time) with toy muskets and powder horns marching around the house doing musket volleys and bayonet charges (we almost had to replace the TV in the living room after a particularly aggressive charge by Henry).

This weekend, I'm taking Peyton to Old Salem for an 18th Century Hearth Cooking day where she's going to get to cook period recipes in period fashion in a period hearth kitchen (she's obsessed with an 18th century cooking show called A Taste of History).

That's the key, I think, to get folks (especially kids) to learn, appreciate and apply the lessons history has to teach. You gotta make it interesting and fun.