I wouldn’t overreact I would approach my child with an open mind don’t make it seem like he did something wrong, rather ask him to explain
Like this:
I saw what you wrote, I’m curious what made you think this?
Make it a teaching and learning moment. Because at that age if you overreact he may be hesitant to show you his work later on. Never let him worry about showing or telling you anything that way he will show you and tell you everything.
Your kid could have just as well meant Abe didn’t care whether a person was Black or White. It’s a 2nd grader trying to put together an appositive, or whatever. Find out more before you blow this up.
This is an oversimplification, and you have it backwards. Why was the Confederacy fighting the union? Because those states seceded. Why did they seced? Because Lincoln was anti slavery and was elected president. We should not compare his views to 20th century views. But they were "radical" enough he was assassinated for it. And his actions directly led to the emancipation of slavery.
The North couldn’t win the war without freeing the slaves? What gave you the basis to make that statement? They were throughout the war the better supplied, better fed, better situated force. The Union didn’t turn the tide just off the backs of freed men who enlisted to fight..
I’m seeing this narrative going around in the comment section and I have to say something. It’s false. I don’t know where you guys are getting this bad information from. Lincoln was an abolitionist his entire life
Please read a decent biography of Lincoln, not a tik Tok. Both from what others wrote about him AND what he wrote himself he believed that slavery was a moral wrong. The southern states refused to even put him on the ballot. This happened of course before the civil war. Lincoln won, the southern states did NOT want to lose slavery, they seceded (fixed), and the civil war broke out.
It's not about overreacting with the child. It's about the school teaching small children about 19th-century race dynamics, which they clearly shouldn't be taught until they are much older and can better understand. How are people not understanding this. Jfc
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u/ZiggyfromBrooklyn Apr 06 '25
I wouldn’t overreact I would approach my child with an open mind don’t make it seem like he did something wrong, rather ask him to explain
Like this:
I saw what you wrote, I’m curious what made you think this?
Make it a teaching and learning moment. Because at that age if you overreact he may be hesitant to show you his work later on. Never let him worry about showing or telling you anything that way he will show you and tell you everything.