poll: kids and current events?

1. what is your primary source of news (tv, internet, radio, newspaper?)
2. how interested would you say you are in politics and current events?
3. what is your political affiliation?
4. how old are your kids?
5. do you consider your kids old enough to learn about and discuss current events? if so, at what age did you consider them old enough?
6. if you consider your kids old enough to learn about and discuss current events, how do they get their information — discussions with adults and/or peers; tv news; internet; newspaper; radio; or other?
7. do you feel a need to screen your children from some information that is available from your primary news source?
8. how interested would you say your kids are in current events and politics?
sorry — and as part of question 7, if so, what kind of information do you feel you need to screen them from?

1. TV and newspaper

2. I’m very interested in them

2. Conservative

4. 6, 4, 3, and 20 month old twins

5. Probably at around 5 or so, that’s when my oldest got the whole “awareness” of them.

6. TV, talk with me, probably pick stuff up from kids at school

7. Yes-celebrity stuff. Unimportant stuff like that. Like that Paris Hilton is in jail, Britney Spears shaved her head, Jon and Kate are having marital issues blah blah blah. Kids don’t need to know nor would care about that kind of stuff anyways. It’s not the influence I want in my house, the influence about talking about other people’s issues. Little people talk about other people, Normal people talk about ideas, big people do things.

8. She’s 6, so she doesn’t know alot about it. But she really liked watching all the Obama coverage so she is probably taking an interest in it.

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