Recently, there's been a spate of mocking tweets in the Twitterverse attributed to a (probably) non-existent but nevertheless precocious offspring. I thought the origins of telling people your child's view of today's political world was probably based on the idea that either 1) children are supposedly vested with the ability to see through bullshit, or 2) there was some oblique reference to Jesus' few words about suffering the little children to come to him and an admonition to be like innocent little children in order to be holy and heaven-worthy.
Here, for your reading pleasure, is a clever and humorous article on the trend: The Weird Cynicism of Using Children to Back Up Your Political Opinions.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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