Joyce Marter featured in Chicago Parent Magazine on how to manage current events.

With the presidential election only weeks away, it’s almost impossible to avoid political news. But the hardest part for a lot of parents is deciding how to talk about that news with their children.

Teaching kids about the 2016 election, and more broadly about world events, is crucial, experts say, to raising socially responsible children who will be ready and willing to help make the world better as soon as they are old enough.