While I create resources for kids, my favorite thing is to see families experiencing history together. It was family trips that made me fall in love with history, so I know parents are integral in sparking that in their children. …

The data showed civic inspiration in families goes both ways not only were parents who voted likely to inspire their children to vote, but kids who vote when they’re old enough to were likely to inspire their parents to vote.

[Amelia has been building tools for civics and history instruction for several years. The problem with American education is that ot doesn’t bother to teach civics and the history of the Republic, unless it’s within the Chomsky/Zinn socialist-deconstruction model. Parents have to fill in the gap, but most of them likely didn’t get a proper education in these areas either, and even the grandparents may not have received one. — Ed]