Julie Bogart is known for her common-sense parenting and education advice. What if we taught our children how to think critically about the information that they are receiving? How can they become aware of their biases, privileges, beliefs, loyalties and perspectives as well as those of others so that they aren’t just empty vessels to be filled up with info but people who examine what they are looking at with discernment and curiosity? That’s what we are going to talk about today-and we have the pleasure of having Julie Bogart to help us explore it.

Of course, much of the information they gain isn’t exactly fact- they are opinions or facts filtered through various lenses and perspectives. Kids have the information they are learning in school, what they learn from existing in their community and culture, and the incredible amount of articles, videos, books, films, online posts and other media that tell them what to think and why to think it.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock-and I know you haven’t-you know that kids and adults are provided with a firehouse of information every day.

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