Ainsley Earhardt: Teaching Kids to Love America Isn't a Partisan Issue
For Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt, teaching kids to love their country is about passing on gratitude, history and hope – and is definitely not a partisan issue.
The "FOX & Friends" co-host is the author of the new children's book America, "I'm So Glad You Were Born," released earlier this summer ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, which takes parents and children on a journey through America's founding while celebrating the people, principles and ideals that have made the country great. It features illustrations by Kim Barnes.
“We’re a young nation – 250 years ago, just a few generations back, our Founding Fathers were writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and forming America and fighting for America,” Earhardt told Crosswalk Headlines.
“This is an opportunity for us to share that with children and teach them all about America and what freedom really means.”
The book celebrates America’s natural beauty and its innovation and opportunity while honoring the nation's military, law enforcement and constitutional freedoms, including freedom of worship and freedom of speech. It encourages respectful dialogue with the line: “Not everyone has to agree all the time, so share your ideas, and I will share mine.”
Earhardt said the message reflects one of the book's central themes: Americans don't have to agree on everything to respect one another and remain united.
“I'm raising my daughter in New York City, and I'm a conservative, so that's a line that's important in this house,” she said, laughing.
She often meets parents with different political viewpoints at her daughter's school, she said, but they still get along and treat one another with respect.
“I think the message there is we are unified under the red, white and blue – and under the stars and stripes. It's called the United States of America,” she said. “So we have much more in common than we don't, and we need to learn to get to a point in our country where we are united and we understand each other's gifts and talents, and we could think differently, but that is ultimately what makes America great.”
The book also celebrates America’s racial and ethnic diversity.
“We’re all God’s children,” Earhardt said.
The Fox News host said she hopes families will read the book together and develop a deeper appreciation for their country.
“I hope they are able to read the book with their children and realize all the positive aspects of living in this great nation – and that the children walk away feeling very happy and pleased and blessed and grateful to be here in America – and just a reminder that we all need to go back to that childlike faith.”
Listen to the full interview with Earhardt here.
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published July 16, 2026.
