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Good move. How I counter this news awareness in our house is to actually have discussions with my kids about news that I know they are interested in. For inst

Good move. How I counter this news awareness in our house is to actually have discussions with my kids about news that I know they are interested in. For instance, my younger son is super interested in space and space exploration. Whenever I see a news article or announcement on the web (or even right here on HN), I read up a little about it and then seek him out with a "Hey, did you hear about ...". This often leads to a great discussion, and ends up with us sitting in front of the computer to visit the NASA or ESA websites to get more information, photos or videos direct from the source, without much editorial slant on it. It's all about piquing their interests, without overloading them with a lot of garbage. They've got enough on their plates with school and social activities etc., so curating their news for them like this is I think useful, plus also leads to some good father/son bonding time where we talk about big ideas like adults.

glaberficken 10y ago
Thanks, that's great advice.
VLM 10y ago
And if you have the technology to subscribe to video RSS feeds there's news such as: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html Only two things to not like about TWAN, coverage of politicians photo ops, and for a weekly show its simply too short.
DonaldFoss 10y ago
With 1 daughter in university and 2 in high school, I do something similar, adding in listening to their viewpoints, and asking them critical thinking questions about their views without necessarily disagreeing with them. It doesn't matter whether I agree or disagree, I simply ask them to think for themselves and question the reason they feel the way they do. It's often quite interesting to go into a direction which I had not considered. I've also found flaws in my own views from the exercise. As may be expected, they also get tired of this sometimes, and they know it's coming, so I try to pick and choose items at random and just let others go. I believe--well hope really, that this encourages them to think and ask questions themselves and not dread another dinner with dad :)

glaberficken 10y ago

Thanks, that's great advice.

VLM 10y ago

And if you have the technology to subscribe to video RSS feeds there's news such as: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_index.html Only two things to not like about TWAN, coverage of politicians photo ops, and for a weekly show its simply too short.

DonaldFoss 10y ago

With 1 daughter in university and 2 in high school, I do something similar, adding in listening to their viewpoints, and asking them critical thinking questions about their views without necessarily disagreeing with them. It doesn't matter whether I agree or disagree, I simply ask them to think for themselves and question the reason they feel the way they do. It's often quite interesting to go into a direction which I had not considered. I've also found flaws in my own views from the exercise. As may be expected, they also get tired of this sometimes, and they know it's coming, so I try to pick and choose items at random and just let others go. I believe--well hope really, that this encourages them to think and ask questions themselves and not dread another dinner with dad :)