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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and it is my monthly listener Q&A,

so it's just me here with you answering some questions. And of course, if you enjoyed this

episode, please subscribe, rate, and write a little review on Apple podcasts and keep sending me

your questions. And I look forward to hearing from you. So the first question is when my child

starts talking about politics, I get so frustrated with some of the misinformation that I'm hearing.

How can I help my child be a critical thinker and the form of zone opinions without

being judgmental? Okay, so if you have a little Alex Piquiton and you are really bending more in

the liberal side of politics or vice versa, anytime kids are trying to sort through their opinion

of what's going on in the world, it's a great opportunity to help them think through things,

become critical thinkers, and learn how to stay open-minded. So they might have formulated an

opinion, but we want to help guide them to continue to keep looking for new information

and staying open to the possibility that they might be wrong. But if you just shove down their

throat the right thing to think, it usually doesn't go over well. In fact, using open-ended

questions will help expand your child's opinion. So after they say something, you might want to say,

I wonder what other people think or what do the majority of the kids in your class think or ask

about a specific person? You can also say something like, that's intense. So then what happens?

Or anything where there's like an extreme political view that you disagree with, you could

walk them through the end of that story. You know, like they might think that the wonderful solution

is X and you're saying, okay, that's pretty intense. What would happen next? And you can also

say things like, how so? Or tell me more about how you came to think that way. These are

all ways to have open-ended questions. And it's our best bet in protecting our kids from

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