{"id":13680,"date":"2016-11-04T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T13:15:25","slug":"talk-to-your-kids-about-the-election-heres-how-melissa-joan-hart-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2016\/11\/talk-to-your-kids-about-the-election-heres-how-melissa-joan-hart-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to Your Kids About the Election &#8211; Here&#8217;s How Melissa Joan Hart Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 395px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/610736190\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 150.379747% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/610736190?et=S4Beknw3SUZSSAnKd5coEw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=4UgGrJqrmkXb-3nEByym75NnlBoyNgqXCjB1iwU4Jmc=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"395\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like most parents, I want my children to grow up knowing and caring about the culture\u2026 but this campaign season, it\u2019s been hard to know how to deal with it. \u00a0Actress Melissa Joan Hart discussed her strategies about raising kids during a campaign season, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/melissa-joan-hart-says-important-talk-kids-election-141032711--abc-news-celebrities.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I think it\u2019s full of wisdom<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1478264731781_1207\">\u201cI had my 10-year-old [son Mason] watch the second debate with me,\u201d she said of the October debate, moderated by ABC News\u2019 Martha Raddatz. \u201cI thought it started off pretty civil at first and then it took a bad turn. But I think it\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1478264731781_1205\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t really up on current events \u2013 especially politics \u2013 until I was well in my 30s. So I like that at 10 years old, he\u2019s kind of getting the fact that there\u2019s an election and who to vote for\u2026I don\u2019t think I ever knew that stuff growing up,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1478264731781_1203\">The \u201cMelissa and Joey\u201d actress explained that her parents either \u201cdidn\u2019t care and didn\u2019t talk about\u201d politics when she was younger. Still, it\u2019s made her want to include her three children in the process and use it as a teaching moment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1478264731781_1222\">\u201cI think it\u2019s important. 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