Great Big World: How to Nurture Your Kid’s Interest in Global Affairs

It’s never too early to become a global citizen and start doing what you can to make the world a better place. If you’re worried about nurturing your child’s interest in global affairs because you’re afraid they’ll rush off to a Bangladeshi refugee camp, I empathize. At one point, I was in eastern Congo on a conflict prevention work trip for the State Department and my brother was in Baghdad on a detail with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Now being a mom myself, I totally empat...