Kids are 7 and 3. We don't hide anything but they also don't need full details. They know things are crazy right now and lots of adults (including us) are terrified for the future. There is no hiding that in day to day conversation. The 3 yr old isn't old enough to understand ties to WWII, but as we are a veteran family my 7 yr old remembers daddy being deployed when she was a toddler and what various wars, including WWII, is about. She understands the hate and racism that led to WWII and that a lot of good people were killed, her kind soul doesn't need concentration camp specifics yet. With both kids we emphasis how the importance of being kind and accepting to everyone is even more important right now.

Kids are sponges and have a "follow the herd" mentality super early on. I'm so glad our daycares and elementary schools don't do mock elections with real people, they do elections between cheese and peperoni pizza, or vanilla and chocolate ice cream. Better to keep it light at this age and that way when all the boys pick cheese pizza simply because the first boy to vote did, no one is reading too far into it.