Talking to Children About Politics without Resorting to Divisive Rhetoric – Minnesota Press

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How to talk to children about politics without resorting to divisive rhetoric By: Annie Baxter-MPR Pam Thiemann is grateful that her entire extended family lives near her home in Plymouth. She and her husband have four adult children and three grandchildren, six, nine and fourteen years old. Thiemann says that the whole family meets once or twice a week and that policy conversations can become tense, especially when bad news comes up, such as th…