Sarah Eltabib's 10-year-old daughter came home from school one day in March and asked if Donald Trump will really build a wall, and if that would mean Muslims like her would have to leave the U.S. She said she definitely wouldn't vote from Trump if she was old enough to cast a ballot.
Mahnaz Tantawi's 9-year-old son said a classmate told him that "Muslims are killing everybody."
He had a snappy rejoinder, which he recounted over dinner with his parents: "Very few people are in ISIS, and that doesn't count as all Muslims."
These kids are extraordinarily resilient and high-spirited, like kids tend to be, but it's distressing that this is the America in which they have to grow up in 2016.
Many of their parents immigrated from Asia and the Middle East decades ago, and they say it seems like the culture has taken an improbable step back, in terms of tolerance, since their arrival.
In part two of our video series "An American Dinner Table," we hear from three Muslim families -- the Ayubs, Tantawis and Eltabibs -- about navigating today's charged political climate.
You can watch part one of the series, on why Muslim values are really American values, here.
Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.