How do you handle your kids’ friends’ parents involved in scandals/negative news?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Younger kids don't tend to pick up on these things.

+1

OP is a troll.

[Anonymous]

Total troll post 10000000000%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A preschool child should not be exposed to the news.

Not OP, but I don’t get this. We take turns in the car listening to stuff, and when it’s the parents’ turns, we often pick NPR. My almost 4-year-old hears the news fairly frequently. I turn it off if I think it’s a bit overwhelming of a topic for her (like a school shooting, sexual assault, etc), but she hears the news. I suspect she generally tunes it out, but sometimes she does pick up on a word and then asks me about it. (Like she’ll hear a report is about Colorado and mentions the time we went there.)

My DS was 3 yo when he was staying at his grandma's house for a few days, news was on, he yelled "grandma, what's a prostitute?" after a report about a raid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Young children are not going to get the concept of fraud or any other white collar crime. There appear to be adults who struggle with the concept. I wouldn't even try to explain this stuff to a preschooler.

Also, young kids shouldn't be watching scary stuff on the news about police brutality. It's a shame your child was exposed to that.

Eh, I do white-collar work, and I tell my kids that someone was accused of lying and stealing. It's not that complicated.

Then you are choosing to convey the news to your kid. It's not like they heard it on the news, they heard it from you.

Would I tell my young child that their friend's parent was a liar and thief? Nope. There is pretty much no need for me to tell my kid that. I might think twice about allowing my child to go over to that friend's house, though.

[Anonymous]

Don't say a word. There are parents in my school with major public scandals (this is DC after all) and I would never dream of saying anything to my kid or them about it (unless they were already my friends).

[Anonymous]

I'm almost 50 and I've never once heard of (nor have seen) a preschooler care about or watch news. Therefore, you are a goddamn liar.

[Anonymous]

This happened to me as a kid. The father of one of my friends murdered his clients and their daughter.

My parents told me to be a good friend to the son because it wasn't his fault his father was a bad person.

[Anonymous]

Don’t listen to the news? That’s CRAZY. I had already said I turn volume off if the news is about something inappropriate or scary. But for them to hear stories about congress, stock markets, weather etc — I think it let’s them know the world is really big, to learn to be patient/take turns (since obviously kids would rather listen to their own music), and they sometimes pick up on something and we talk about it.