He just frowned, as this didn't make a bit of sense to him. 

"Now, let's say that, right now, while you're still a kid, you came bursting into my house all happy and announced, 'Grandma! I'm going to buy you a new television for every room in your house!'"

"Now, some Grandmas might be really happy about that and just say thank you." I continued, "But, your Grandma knows you don't have a job. You don't earn money. So I would not be happy. I would want to know where you are getting the money."

By this time the little guy was with me, and probably thinking he wouldn't dream of spending his money on putting televisions in every room in my house - what a waste of money. I didn't confuse him by telling him that government has already given digital television to millions of people. Instead, we went on with the moral of the story.

"Now, when the government tells you, "we are getting new computers for your classrooms" - who really bought your computers?"

"My daddy." He's really a smart boy.

After a couple of revisions, President Obama will give his speech today to American school children. I think the main reason so many parents objected to him pipelining his message into the schools is a profound distrust of this administration.

Here is a White House that has constantly overstepped the lines of power. The Orwellian shadow keeps growing larger as the days get longer on this administration. The White House suggested lesson plans included questions like, "What inspired you about the president's speech?" and "What is he asking me to do?" These did not resonate well in the American spirit.

Teaching children to love and admire their rulers is not an American value. Since our founding, we prefer to keep government power in check. The palatable shift from a government held accountable to the people, to an overseer of the cars we drive and to the doctors we see, has made many of us very wary. Now more than ever our children need to understand true American principles.  

It is our responsibility as parents to educate our children, to pass down our family values and traditions; schools are just one tool. Contrary to what the educational elite believe, it's also our responsibility to pass down our political inheritance to our children, lest we leave their education to teleprompter speeches and sound bites.

Today our nation's school children will be told by the President of the United States,

"I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn."

I know at least one little boy who knows who really buys the books, equipment, and computers.

And a president that understands too well that once said, "The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow." -Abraham Lincoln