Parents: Take Your Kids When You Vote

While we are all on the subject of voting, let's talk instilling the habit of voting in kids.

My parents always took my sister and I with them when they went voting. It made a big impression on me. (And Fred Wilson wrote a great post about taking his son voting.)

I've voted in every election I've been eligible for since I was 18. When I was in college I used absentee ballots. When I moved to NYC at 26 registering to vote, and figuring out where to do so, was one of the first things I did.

I'm such a dork about voting that I recently showed up at my local polling place (the JHS in our neighborhood) to discover that the day's primary wasn't being held in our district because there weren't any contested races.

It's a habit I got into because of my parents.

If young people and Democrats voted at the same rates as older people and Republicans we'd live in a very different country. Take your kids to vote!