Top 10 Ways to help your children understand the National Negative Political Crisis!!
Ike Lemuwa
Angel Investor|Author of 12 Crowdfunding Campaign Guides|Nationally Recognized Master Hypnotic Mass Campaign Expert
The 2016 Presidential election is in many aspects a negative election. Many of the political ads placed on TV during the electoral campaign provoke anger and hatred among the audience. "The Washington Post" presents this election as the second negative presidential election in American history after the 2012 elections. Hilary Clinton has reportedly mentioned her presidential rival by name more than 21 times in one speech, with a great deal of brutality and hostility. Negative elections are confusing for adults, let alone for kids. Would it be enough to just change the channel to prevent your children from being negatively affected by these ads? Below are the top 10 ways to help your children deal with the National Negative Political Crisis.
1. Decipher the message of the Ad for them: when a negative political ad pops up on TV or online, explain to your child the message it tries to convey to the audience. Explain to your children that visual and audio effects are used to make an impact on those who watch the ad and make them believe its claims.
2. Read to your children's books about politics: There are many kid-friendly guides to American politics that simplify the electoral process and make them accessible to kids. Bad Kitty for President is one of the most famous political books for children out there. You might want to give it a try!
3. Look for kid-version news: There are many channels and websites that specialise in delivering "softened" versions of the news for children. They turn the news into something appropriate to their age. You might try HTE Kids News or Time for Kids and look for kid-version news.
4. Help them to keep focused on the issues: Explain to your children that what they see on TV or on the net is mostly rumours, and is thus lacking in credibility.
5. Find a positive alternative to the ads you are watching: There are many positive electoral Ads online. Sit with your kid to the computer and try to find some of these and decode them together.
6. Get them to learn how to assess each presidential candidate alone, gathering information about each of them from authentic articles in newspapers.
7. Hold small family talks of the electoral campaign over dinner.
8. Teach them to be independent thinkers: Never try to impose your political opinions on your children. Show them that disagreement is inherent in any human discussion and that they should learn to listen to others and tolerate their views. This will make them realise that what they the negative political crisis they are witnessing is no exception to this rule.
9. Accommodate your speech to the level of your child: when talking about politics with your child, avoid jargon and technical terms. Use kid-friendly language to help him or her grasp what you are saying.
10. Watch less TV when kids are around: This decreases the likelihood of exposing children to negative campaigning
By Ike Lemuwa
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Volenteer at Non-Profit Organizations I love to see people smile letting them know I care.
8 年Children should be able to vote
Another Tikkun Olam nonsense moment. Politics is showbizz for ugly people. It's best that our kids realize the meaning of yellow journalism, bloated government, and conniving politicians before they turn into fragile beings. I'm grateful for one to be able to point to the tv and tell My kids that everything they see there is Fake , manufactured, manipulated, or dumbed down to where logic need not apply.