Nasty Campaign Rhetoric Puts Parents and Teachers in a Tough Spot

For many, this election has taken an ugly, dark and virtually unprecedented turn, making the news a PG-13 minefield of lewdness that recalls the coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandals, NBC News reported.

The tenor of it all is putting millions of parents and teachers in a tough situation — balancing just how much to let their children see and hear while also teaching them about civics and the world around them.

"Parents are at a loss. They don't know how to respond to their kids" said Denise Daniels, a psychologist and child development expert.

For many, that tension came to a head with the release Friday of audiotape of Donald Trump bragging about groping women in graphic ways. Some parents said were dreading the conversation they would have to have when their kids heard the tape, while others lamented that their child had learned the slang term for female genitalia from a presidential candidate.