Method:
I read the story about the Frogs ask
for a King. Both children have little understanding about Kings and Queens and
really only understand them from Stories and from when Prince George was born.
We talked about leaders and how the government
works very lightly. I drew diagrams
I then asked them what they would want
from a leader.
DS started talking about when he was
making a toasted sandwich he would like some help...we talked about parents and
that is their job. I think they feel that leaders a like parents....just bigger
Both decided that the leaders should
help people and listen to people and their needs
Then DS said that if a bird was hurt
that someone should help it and care for it. Both children started to talk
quite animatedly about this as we had just been to the zoo. The talked about
all animals needing help and protection from harm. (Both children as of yet do
not understand hunting other than the need for food.)
They talked about trees, rivers and
the sea and saving them so they could explore them.
We talked about DOC and what they do.
Both agreed that it was one of the
most important things that our leaders could do.
We talked about people taking fish to
eat...DD felt that this was ok if we had some to give. We talked about how much
was acceptable and fishing trawlers and this brought in some doubts to DD's
mind about peoples morals.....
DD brought up very quickly after our
talk on animals that there should be a rule of NO FIGHTING!
She has heard of how parents and other
people gets sent away to fight in wars.
This lead to children without parents.
DS was very concerned that some children have no Mummy or Daddy. He remembered "Annie"
the movie and felt that the government should have NICE orphanages and be quick
to find a new family for children to live in or at least have a nice place to
live.
We then talked about Doctors as DS has
just had his hernia operation and Nana is in hospital. The both felt that these people are very
important.
This lead to T our local fire chef and
that it was important too. They haven't seen him as putting out house fires,
but they have seen him put out a scrub fire, but they have seen fire rescue
working with car crashes.
Which lead to their little friends E
and T's father who is a police officer. They are not sure really what a police
officer does other than keep the roads safe.
I asked what about a leader for
education. DD was confused and explained that she thought that...yes there
could be schools but only if you wanted to go to them. It would be up to the
Mummy and Daddy to find the type of school they liked. But really it's up to
the family to decided how to educate the children.
We talked about people who didn't have
any money...should we help them...she said that they should get a job.
We talked about people who were older
who might not have enough education to get a job...she said then we need to
send them to University so they can then get a job.
