How are your children handling this?

[ificandream]

I remember as a kid freaking out when we heard rumors about Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I don't have any young kids, so I'm wondering how schoolkids are taking this news today.

[uponit7771]

1. They're not, they just know Putler's whore supports Putler. That's the context which the experienced

... the most and can explain to themselves.

The whole WW2 or 3 thing is just information vs the knowledge Putler Whore is tied to Putler in his fight against democracy.

We have a chance to crush the pro Putler's hommies in America, we should go all out on these people.

We know they've been paying the GQP, there's no way they get message saturation without dark money

[JCMach1]

2. Geopolitics discussion with an 11 year old

With a dad who studied National Security, Russian and Soviet History as an undergrad...

But he's the one that keeps asking the questions, so

[mommymarine2003]

3. My 12-year-old grandson lives with us.

He said that all but one teacher on Friday discussed what was going on with Ukraine, and that they were all pro-Ukraine. We did show him where Ukraine was on the globe the other day. The old globe we have shows the Soviet Union, so we talked a little bit about that.

On Friday, we babysat our 2-year-old granddaughter all day, so I didn't get to watch the news. That evening our grandson came downstairs to get an update on Ukraine, which I could not provide. Yesterday, I watched the news almost all day, so now I am informed again.

In the meantime, he had a friend spend the night last night. My daughter, his mother, overhead them discussing who they thought was the greatest American president. They both decided that Benjamin Franklin was our greatest president. I guess they are still just kids. Hopefully, they will get their history correct when they take U.S. History in the 11th grade.