Teaching our child about Voting

So Matt and I went to our polling place tonight to vote, and we took Ty with us. When we got to the polling place, Ty said “What are we doing here?” I said “Daddy and I are voting” and Ty said “What’s that?” So in an in an attempt to explain to him what we were voting for I said “You know how Mommy and Daddy are the boss at home, well there is a big boss who is the boss of all of the United States and he is called The President. And Mommy and Daddy are voting for who they want to be the big boss.” He just said “Oh.” So we left it at that and we went into the polling place and there was of course a senior gentleman there to take our ballots (we have absentee ballots) and so we handed them to this senior citizen and then left. When we turned to leave Ty said “Was that guy the big boss?”

Needless to say after this we explained a little bit more.