I've seen lots of posts about how you explain the election of Donald Trump to your daughter. I'm just not sure what all the anxiety is about. I say this as a man who didn't like Trump, who didn't vote for Trump, whose wife probably didn't vote for Trump, and whose daughter cried when told "the girl" didn't win. All three of my kids voted for Hillary Clinton in their class' mock election. So I write this not from the Trump Train in some gloating fashion but with honest and open eyes. How do you explain this to your daughter? First, it might help if we stopped defining every single life event as if it was the apocalypse. Not every election is the "most important one of our generation," even though someone inevitably trots that out ever stinking year . How am I explaining it? Like I would any election. As this post from Popehat.com suggests: W e move on. (Seriously, read the l inked article , its awesome). Elections are won and lost...
We tried for one, and we ended up with a bushel of fun.