There’s little that indicates a person is unsuitable to be a parent like their willingness to use their children as props in whatever psychodrama they’ve involved themselves in to make themselves feel important. The stage mother, the “cool” father, that single mother in the short shorts hanging upside down next to her daughter on the monkey bars, all are selfish individuals for whom a child is an accessory that helps them enact their disturbed, immature fantasies.

Parents that use their children as political props are perhaps the worst of all as even the most forgiving left leaning New York reporter can clearly see:

Since they stood at only about two-and-a-half feet tall, a handful of three-year-olds assembled in front of a Bronx congressman’s office were having a difficult time getting their construction paper leaves on their 12 foot-tall “Tree of Peace.” So, they just handed the glittery cutouts to their peacenik parents.

A protest against the war in Iraq, the May 30 gathering drew a small group of moms, dads and toddlers from a classroom at Amalgamated Nursery School to the district office doorstep of Congressman Eliot Engel (D-Bronx/Westchester/Rockland) The handmade tree, crafted by 17 children during pre-school class time, was a statement against American troops remaining in Iraq and a call to pursue peaceful paths to end all world conflicts. This gift, however, seemed more like a Trojan horse, designed to gain an invitation inside so that the children’s far-left leaning parents could rail against the war and the congressman’s initial vote in support of it.

So what exactly do these miniature protesters know about the war in Iraq?

“They know that we’re bringing it to encourage this person to help make a peaceful solution for this world,” said Valerie Coleman-Palansky, the teacher who organized this project and mother of two tiny participants.

But is it appropriate for three-year-olds to protest war?

“I think it’s appropriate for three-year-olds to know that the world needs to be a peaceful place for everybody to live in and a safe place for everybody to live in,” Coleman-Palansky said.

The parents explained that similar to the way children are taught in school to “use their words” as opposed to striking another child over a snack, the government should navigate every global conflict with this cookies-and-milk diplomacy.

Nice huh? Read the whole story to be utterly sickened by the way these parents allow some hippy teacher to use their children as pawns to further a leftist agenda. This is pretty much how New Yorkers as a whole act, which is why I hate being here.

h/t Hot Air