One of the experiences that Natalie has been pretty serious about is exposing the kids to the voting process and being involved. Most recently, she worked with the girls to join #TheResistance . And we've done it quite a bit in their early lives. There's a whole bunch of posts here on the blog showing the various times we've taken the kids along with us to vote . This Spring, we had the primary election to vote in and it was the first one in our new house. Which meant a new polling place. After work, we took the kids to the new place and had them engage in democracy with us. The kids scored stickers, of course. But, I also brought SD into the booth with me, where she helped fill out my ballot. I told her how I skip non-contested elections. And then...(gasp!) had her help me fill in the "no" vote on the tax increase referendum. Start 'em young, right??? (welp...the referendum passe...