Extra Credit
This is an excellent opportunity for you to engage your kids in the political process. Invite them to watch the presidential and vice-presidential debates with you. Though they may not understand everything being discussed, this is the world they live in - and all the decisions being made now will affect them. Explain the process as much as you can, and encourage your children to do a little research at their local library to find out why presidential candidates need to hold such debates, and what it is they're trying to do. Our kids must be informed about the political process. It won't be long before someone in their generation will be one of those candidates -- vying to be the leader of the free world - asking for the nation's endorsement to hold the toughest job in the land.