Talking to Kids About Free Speech in the Era of Hateful Rhetoric
It’s not easy, but there are ways to make it a productive conversation.
By Steven Schlozman, M.D., Contributor |March 23, 2018, at 6:00 a.m.
Two years ago I was driving through the countryside with my 10-year-old daughter. It was a picture-perfect summer day. Fair-weather clouds dotted the pale blue sky, and there were swallows darting in and out of the never-ending corn fields. The sun had just started to set, giving everything that orange-red glow that seems new and magical even after you’ve drank it in a thousand times before. My daughter and I were laughing at my insistence that we listen to country music. I’d had enough of the same old pop songs she liked, and there was something about a fiddle and a twangy guitar that just fit the day. It all felt quintessentially American.
But then we saw the little yellow house.
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