This whole situation involving Don Stenberg’s campaign supposedly trying to follow fellow Senate candidate Jon Bruning’s daughter on Twitter is a teachable moment, parents. Please talk to your children now about what to do if a politician tries to connect with them on social media. Sure, it starts out innocently enough: He posts his favorite position papers on your kid’s Facebook wall, maybe tweets, “so, what campaign bumper stickers is your mom's car wearing right now?” But that's just grooming. Before you know it, he’s pointing out that whatever they share with each other is part of a “secret ballot,” engaging in a little constitutional dirty talk (“you know you have the right to bare more than arms, right?”), direct-messaging photos of himself wrapped in nothing but an American flag and suggesting they exchange pictures of each others', um, polling places. Nip this in the bud before it’s too late, parents.