We tell our kids the truth insofar as we know it. I have two kids, 15 and 10. Both have homeschooled, the 15yo is back in public high school. She's willfully blue-pilled. She prefers to remain blissfully ignorant and go about her day. Mind you, she has to consciously avoid listening to the rest of her family discuss current events from a very red-pilled perspective, or when she does hear us, she files it under "oh my crazy tin foiled family - they so quirky!" She's made a choice to live in the reality that the rest of her friends do so that she's not marginalized - she's already off-the-charts bright, so she has always struggled to fit in. Probably one of the smarter things she has done is to tone down the non-conformist, anti-authoritarian values she's been raised with. Certainly makes getting up for institutionalization, er...I mean.., school in the morning easier.
The ten year old is fully woke. He's never been to public school. In homeschooling, we constantly question the narrative. Just to discuss history in terms of "The Narrative" in and of itself lends him kind of a meta-awareness that most public school kids don't have. He constantly points out when his history book is sugar-coating events or skewing it from an American perspective. He openly questions the utility of the subject matter he's presented with. He doesn't have a set, regimented schedule, so he gets a developmentally appropriate amount of sleep. He's more aware of current events than the average 10yo, I would wager. Now, he's not privy to p-gate - I do try to maintain some age-appropriate innocence for him. He questions authority instinctively (he's an atheist and leans heavily anarchist) and hasn't been subjected to any conditioning that would alter that instinct. "Because I said so" does not fly around here.
If I had it to do over, I would probably actively try NOT to red pill the 10yo. It's not that I shoved it down his throat or anything, it's just that I never reserved those types of discussions for adult ears. Honestly though, I think he'd be a happier kid without the weight of such worldly issues on his shoulders. Plus, add in that 10yo imagination ( I would pay good money to experience whatever is going on in that kid's head regarding Trump - what a phenomenon for a woke 10yo to be experiencing!) and you have a prescription for increased anxiety. Further, I don't know how he's ever going to maintain a full-time job, not having the pre-conditioning experience of 12 years of getting up at buttcrack o'clock and sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day doing shit not of his volition. We're not wealthy - he's going to have to find a way to maintain himself, and I'm really not sure that giving him this much freedom of thought and movement is doing him any favors in the long run.