{"id":22029,"date":"2014-09-11T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=22029"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:33:29","slug":"talking-to-your-kids-about-current-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/09\/11\/talking-to-your-kids-about-current-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to your kids about current events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up-to-date on current events is an important part of citizenship. Whether we read the newspaper, go to news websites, or watch the news on TV, understanding what&#8217;s going on in the world helps us make sense of things and better allows us to have informed, meaningful conversations.<\/p>\n<p>This is equally true for children and we, as adults, have a responsibility to help kids stay informed and process the news. This is not just important for their studies&#8211;current events often become very relevant in school discussions&#8211;but also for their development as global citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentfurther.com\/resources\/enewsletter\/archive\/discussing-current-events\">here<\/a> for a very helpful website on how to help your children do just that.<\/p>\n<p>FYI&#8230;all secondary students have the excellent, concise BBC News app on their iPads. A great place to start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping up-to-date on current events is an important part of citizenship. Whether we read the newspaper, go to news websites, or watch the news on TV, understanding what&#8217;s going on in the world helps us make sense of things and better allows us to have informed, meaningful conversations. This is equally true for children and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":22023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}