May 9, 2019
Children Have to Listen to Fake News, Too, and It's Not Good for Them
Last month at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, association president Olivier Knox was brooding over the future of the free press after Donald Trump called some of the media "enemies of the people." Knox said that, a few days after Trump's remark, "I was driving my then-11-year-old son somewhere, probably soccer practice, when he burst into tears and asked me, 'Is Donald Trump going to put you in prison?'" Knox had a follow-up story about a family trip to Mexico and how his son "mused [that] if the president tried to keep me out of the country, at 'least Uncle Josh is a good lawyer and will get you home.'"
As someone who's never been a parent, I've kept the rule to never offer opinions on how to raise children. But lately there are more and more examples of children in the grip of bizarre beliefs about reality that cause them real anxiety — perhaps even...(Read Full Article)