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Okay, so there's that pesky economy to fix, the educational system to support, wars to be ended, a national reputation to be restored ... Barack Obama has a lot on his agenda now that he has officially been sworn in as President. There's one task he had already taken on, however, even before yesterday's inauguration -- role model for millions of parents.Parents have been enlisting the President's aid in their everyday dealings with their kids for weeks now. He certainly makes an effective "third party," according to one mom. "With kids," says Jill Miller Zimon, a mother of three, "lots of times when a child won't do something for you, you will ... pretend a third party said it was a good thing to do." It seems obvious to me that there's no way Barack Obama could have ever become president if he didn't eat his broccoli.
Obama also serves as an inspiration to kids who might not want to work as hard as they should. "I tell them all the time," says Avis Jones-DeWeever, a mother of two, "'You are brilliant, but brilliance necessitates hard work to get to the level he reached." I'm not sure how much that will help when your kids' goals are to be a train engineer or a princess, though.
Still, it never hurts to have an example of where hard work can get a kid.
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1-21-2009 @ 11:33AM
jen said...My sons adore Obama, so you better believe I'm going to use this to my advantage! Especially the part where his mom got him up at 4:30 to work on schoolwork. My next four years may have just gotten a wee bit easier. Hey! One can hope...
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1-21-2009 @ 9:17PM
LS said...Sorry, my best role models are my own parents, and if I need to look for more role models for my son, I have two brothers, multiple uncles, and a nephew who is a police officer to present to him. I will not be offering up *any* celebrity, Obama included, as someone to emulate.
Obama's job now is to get the business of the country done, not be a hero or anything else. Get the man OFF the pedestal already, he's a human being with flaws, just like the rest of us.
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1-23-2009 @ 12:24PM
Lisa said...I agree. My kids have great admiration for the family, so it's an effective technique to reinforce our own values. Though the other night when I suggested that Malia and Sasha sat still during dinner, my 6-year old daughter piped up: "That different. Their dad is the President".
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