The politics of 7 and 8 year olds...

Just a quick entry to say that Noah had his "friends" birthday party today. :) We held it over at our gym, as they had a nice package where they'll run games in the gym with the kids for an hour and then we have the conference room for cake, ice cream and presents. The kids had a blast playing all sorts of tag and soccer games in the gym (and I was happy that that particular part turned out as well as it did given the range of kids we had, lol).

When we got to the cake and ice cream part, though, we came upon something we'd never expected. The kids (all 7 or 8 years old, mind you) got into a political debate. It started with me asking the kids if they wanted their ice cream at the same time as their cake or after. They started "voting." Someone said, "I vote for Obama." And it just took off from there. One boy even knew the electoral college vote. Really. A couple different times, we actually had to step in and ask them to change the subject as things were getting a bit heated between a couple of the boys who very strongly believed what they believed. :)

Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that they all know what's going on in the world and have an opinion. It even turned into a learning opportunity about respecting other people's opinions. :) I'm told the boy who knew the electoral college vote has actually been tardy to class a few times in the past few weeks for debating politics in the hallways. Wow.

Politics aside, it really was a fun party. :)