By Kate Garzón, M.Ed., Owner, Guided Parenting Support - GPS

​Critical thinking skills have never been more important for kids and teens than they are in this moment, when a 24-hour news cycle—and round the clock access to social media—means we are bombarded by information and stories from across the political spectrum. However, information is not the same as facts, and just because someone wrote it down or created a video about it does not make it true.