Truth is, your kids may be experimenting with it long before you as a parent are ready to have ”the talk.”  Four years ago, maybe the only thing you associated with “hope” was the hope of three hours of uninterrupted sleep. “Change” was most commonly followed by “diapers.” But it’s 2012, and your children are older and dangerously vulnerable: science has demonstrated that children begin toying with Republicanism far earlier than previously thought.

Thanks to technology, cable news, and a trend toward increasingly uninhibited (if not unhinged) political expression, children are regularly exposed to the kind of extreme views once associated only with Thanksgiving dinners and ”that uncle.” Fortunately, parents can use a number of early strategies to ensure their children are politically balanced and do not fall victim to the simple-minded seduction of the far right. Read More