God Bless...Canada?

My daughter came home today with very unbiased political material from school. I was pleased that they are talking about current events and it was nice to see that even when she picked a side and told me she was voting for person x, that she was able to articulate why and tell me her friend was voting differently and respectfully explain why the friend was voting for person y.

Well done teacher. We do not talk politics in front of her. The last thing I want is to be in the middle of Kroger and have her parrot misunderstood political dialogue. You know, in a similar manner that in the middle of the Fall Festival this year she announced in front of an entire room of parents that "My mommy got handcuffed by the police before!" Um, really? So I say "Um, really, do tell..." She thankfully responded "Don't you remember Momma? Last year when Fuzzy was a cop for Halloween and he handcuffed us together..." Needless to say my being mortified was short lived but OMG.

So politics, nope, not when little ears are around. Especially since I consider myself to be a liberal conservative or conservative liberal.

Several hours after the voting conversation she busted out with these lovely musings...
Ava:"Momma, I like President Obama, but how is he allowed to be President?"
Me: "Uh, why wouldn't he be allowed to be President?"
Ava: "Because he wasn't born in the United States I thought all Presidents needed to be born here."
Me:"Ava,he was born here, who told you he wasn't?"
Ava:"They showed us a movie in class today Momma and HE WAS NOT BORN HERE. He was born in Canada."
Me:" What? Hang on, back up, they showed you a movie in school today saying that President Obama was born in Canada? Ava, people say a lot of things about different Presidents, but he was not born in Canada."
Ava: "Oh, maybe it was Justin Bieber. You're right Mom, Justin Bieber was born in Canada, he can't be President."

I'm not sure if I'm happy or upset about this. So it appears that they successfully have open social studies conversations but on the other hand she was subjected to Justin Bieber.

Well, at least at this point if my daughter has successfully mixed up President Obama and Justin Bieber than at least I'm doing a good job with raising her to be color blind.

I am slightly offended that she mixed an American up with a Canadian though, god knows all Canadians do indeed look alike... ;P