How can kids get involved in the political process?
Kennedy: If they are following what’s going in their community, their church, their school, their family, their neighborhood, talking to their friends, reading or listening to TV news or newspapers, they are involved. One way they can get involved is to pick one thing they are interested in and follow that. Especially now that we have the Supreme Court nominee hearings, I think that this is something that if kids are interested in any particular issue that they can follow what happens to that issue during this period of time. If there’s an election going on, if kids sign up their parents to vote and talk about it at home about the issues and the campaign and if they get involved, I think that makes it more fun, just like it’s more fun to play sports than to watch. It’s more fun if you’re involved to get your friends involved and try to do something in your community as you learn a little more about how it works. Often times if you write to your local officials, they are very happy to c
