{"id":36530,"date":"2026-09-02T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:18:37","slug":"column-how-to-guide-children-through-todays-political-chaos-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/column-how-to-guide-children-through-todays-political-chaos-valley-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: How to Guide Children Through Today&#8217;s Political Chaos\u2014<em>Valley News<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vnews.com\/2026\/09\/02\/parenting-during-political-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014In an opinion piece, Miriam Voran, an assistant professor of psychology, offers guidance for parents on helping children navigate political instability, emphasizing age-appropriate conversations, emotional regulation, and independent thinking. \"Stand for reality, but don't rush your children out of childhood. Remember that civic education fits the goal of keeping up with your child\u2019s maturing interests,\" Voran writes. \"Educate your children about the broader world.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vnews.com\/2026\/09\/02\/parenting-during-political-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014In an opinion piece, Miriam Voran, an assistant professor of psychology, offers guidance for parents on helping children navigate political instability, emphasizing age-appropriate conversations, emotional regulation, and independent thinking. &#8220;Stand for reality, but don&#8217;t rush your children out of childhood. Remember that civic education fits the goal of keeping up with your child\u2019s maturing interests,&#8221; Voran writes. &#8220;Educate your children about the broader world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-9vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36531,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36530\/revisions\/36531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}