How Do You Teach Your Kids About Donald Trump?

"It’s exhausting having to parent against the leader of the free world."

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty)

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty)

It’s exhausting having to parent against the leader of the free world who spouts untruths about even inconsequential things (who cares how many people attended his inauguration?), who has a penchant for not apologizing when he gets things wrong (how do I impart to my sons the importance of telling the truth or apologizing when they are in the wrong in light of “alternative facts”?), and who belittles and name-calls those who ask tough questions or disagree with his positions (this is, to borrow from President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, “demoralizing and disheartening”).

Shawn Raymond, partner at Susman Godfrey, in an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle. Raymond notes that apart from the president’s policies, his behavior is ‘embarrassing‘ and something the father of four struggles to explain to his children.

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