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The Brian Lehrer Show

Talking to Your Kids About the Election

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to share how they are talking to their kids about the election results.

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Brian Laird on WNYC, and we're going to end the show today with a call in for parents on how you're talking to your kids about the election results.

0:23.9

212-433 W-N-YC, 212-4-33-9692. Parents, how are you talking to your kids about the election results?

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212-433-96-6-9-2.

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How much attention were your kids of whatever age paying to the campaign?

0:44.2

How much did you involve them and following the campaigns, maybe even canvassing?

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Did they go vote with you?

0:50.3

212-433 WNYC.

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And yes, we want to hear from Harris voters who see in Trump a threat to civility,

0:59.4

a threat to their children themselves in various ways, a threat to democracy,

1:04.2

but also directly as a threat to migrants, immigrants, women, LGBTQ plus, and especially trans folks. Yes, the climate and

1:15.3

his political opponents as enemies within. How are you explaining to your children that more than

1:21.3

half the country and maybe more of your neighbors than you realized voted for him, 21 212-433 WNYC. This is obviously

1:31.7

that aspect of it for Harris voters. 212-433-9692. We got a text earlier in a earlier segment from a parent who said their daughter was getting a lot

1:48.8

of pro-Harris content in their social media feed. Their son was getting a lot of pro-Trump

1:56.8

kind of manosphere content in his social media sphere.

2:04.5

I wonder if you saw any of that with respect to your kids as well,

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and they reflected any of that back to you.

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But it's really for you, parents.

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How are you explaining the results of the election to your children,

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especially if they're disillusioned, if they're people who are tending to support Harris themselves

2:28.6

or may now see that the U.S. still has a glass ceiling for women in the presidency, if that's how they're

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