Recipe For A Civics Nerd

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One day this week I decided to try writing something with a little extra humor, and this was the result:

This is a recipe for a civics nerd, which I am sharing with you so that you, too can create your own political guru. (Warning: result may yammer on about politics to the point of insanity)

Ingredients:

-Baby

-teddy bear with Uncle Sam hat

-Patriotic picture books

-American flags

- americana decorations, crafts, and sweets

-Book of American quotations

-American historical fiction, and a lot of it

-American Heritage Girls membership

-Pocket size U.S. Constitution

-Various civics, history, and founding documents curriculum

-The Blaze

-the EPOCH Times

-Prager University

-Generation Joshua membership

-The Center For Self Governance

-TeenPact Four Day Class

-Open discussion

Directions:

Give baby teddy bear with Uncle Sam hat and read patriotic picture books aloud. When the baby turns into a toddler, help her place American flags on the graves of veterans. Use decorations, crafts, and sweets to celebrate every American patriotic holiday. Take plenty of pictures. When the toddler grows into an elementary-age child, give her copy work from the book of American quotations. Supply the American historical fiction to child and watch her devour it. Place child in American Heritage girls and keep her there for at least seven years. Give middle-school age child a pocket size Constitution and brace yourself for her argumentative questions. Place child in various civics, history, and founding documents classes. Ignore weeping and gnashing of teeth, she'll get it eventually. Watch the Blaze with the child who is now a young teenager. Apply open discussion at every opportunity. Subscribe to the EPOCH Times and encourage her to read it. Give her access to PragerU. Send her to a Generation Joshua simulation and get sucked into GenJ Clubs. Go to a Center For Self-Governance Class with young teenager. Send her to TeenPact Four Day class. Continue to encourage, challenge, and support politics nerd for an undeterminable amount of time. 

At least, that's how my parents did it. 





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