Politicians and Their Negative Ads...Talk about Bullying

During every TV show our children are watching during campaign season there are negative ads from every candidate.  We are busy trying to teach our children not to bully other children and that is exactly the model that they are being exposed to each time they watch one of those negative campaign ads.  If you don't have a device on your TV that lets you skip those pesky commercials, the bad news is they will be around for another nine months and as the election gets closer they are going to become more vicious.  How do we limit the affect of these ads on our children?   Turn off the TV, read a book together, watch videos, use them as a jump off point for a discussion about bullying and talk to them about what you think about negative campaigning.  We can't make those ads go away but we can certainly do something about there affect on our children