Always look up to your elders

In many cases adults tend to tell their children "white lies" to keep them from knowing the scary truth behind it. Where as for history, that is exactly what they do. Younger kids hear these amazing stories such as the native americans and pilgrims celebrating Thanksgiving; they wear their little paper hats and feathers, and have a huge feast. The children believe that the pilgrims and native americans came together, became friends, and had a ginormous dinner. This story is completely and utterly wrong. They were most definitely not friends and the pilgrims killed the native americans. Honestly though, would you want to tell your little five year old daughter that? I believe it is right to not tell little kids the truth because it will most likely haunt them. That does not however mean our history books should lie to us, we should just merely learn about it as we get older and more mature.