![]() Resources created to help parents and educators share current events with children and teens abound, from youth-created newspapers like IndyKids and classroom-oriented newsmagazines like Upfront. ![]() ![]() So how do we encourage young people to pay attention to the world we live in without feeling powerless in the face of what often seem to be enormous challenges? Today’s news reports or political discussions can sometimes be more disturbing or demoralizing than anything else. I’m glad that she’s engaged, but also sometimes have to squelch my inclination to shield her from news that I’m not comfortable discussing. Her humanities homework includes presidential debate watching, and she and her friends often discuss sustainability activities and the latest on standardized testing (in between watching Drake memes on YouTube). My seventh grader would probably go through the roof for a signed poster of the “ PBS NewsHour’s” Gwen Ifill, and regularly checks to make sure I’m still a “sustaining member” of our local public radio station.
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