This is the first election my daughter Sally has paid attention to, and she\u2019s horrified. Completely<\/em> horrified. She has Hispanic friends at school, and while she may be too young to grasp all of the ideas in play, she\u2019s outraged by Trump\u2019s rhetoric and campaign promises on immigration primarily. She\u2019s terrified her friends will be deported, but mostly she\u2019s angry, and she laments\u00a0the fact that she can\u2019t vote. For my part, I\u2019ve lost track of how many times NPR has warned me to cover my child\u2019s ears or turn down the volume before playing a clip or quoting a Republican candidate. This election has left me, as a parent, feeling powerless and grasping for straws<\/a>.<\/p>\n How do I explain this to my daughter? This election will be her first political memory, and will set the foundation for how she understands and views future elections. We<\/em> may look at the GOP race this year as some sort of weird aberration where all the rules are being broken, but for children like my daughter, who are paying attention to politics for the first time, it is all they know. Ads like this<\/em> and candidates one-upping each other to see how anti-immigrant they are is all she knows.<\/p>\n