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If you find the news out of Iran or Australia unsettling, imagine how a child might be feeling right now. Here are some tips from child development experts about what to say to kids when the news is scary:

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This is life. And people making selfish choices will always be rewarded and never suffer commensurate punishment to their misdeeds.

Interesting - I recognize most of the sub-headers as things Mom either said to me or did for me. Guess she had a pretty decent clue.

Gotta be honest, I thought that was supposed to be a happy and content baby POTUS in this illustration.

Tip 1 - Don’t let your kids watch the news and hope that teachers control what is talked about in the classrooms.

I think of the poor children taken to Trump's hate rallies 😥

Appreciate this piece. ❤️👍🏾

'Get the f'CK over it, kid. That's REAL life without the sugarcoated BS and superficial distractions of human invention. ' SorryNotSorry concerned about how those things affect children? Think DontProcreate

I don’t watch the news, my 17 year old doesn’t watch the news. But even he asked me about Iran. It’s not so easy to keep things from kids. I like these tips.

Old news

Look at that demon spawn! Looks like it’s face is melting. Truly nightmarish. news child childrenunderattack art facemelt

Just tell them that news media are businesses that profit when people are afraid and/or angry.

Uh don’t let your kids listen to NPR is a great start

Baptism by fire. Unfortunately, world affairs are getting worse by far. Political unrest, environmental catastrophes, global warming and the list goes on. These kids are going to face unimaginative struggles as predators await our demise like vultures (China, Russia, Iran).

Maybe we should also explain to 'kids' why we; -divide ourselves into nations from all we need to share -believe in competing religions that nobody can pprve -think money has more value & worth than life & the environment? ...

What kid is paying attention to the news? Stop saddling children with your irrational fears.

Get over it. The world is a cruel place....

Kids don’t need to hear about adults issues

Leftists constantly scare their children. Laying off their anxiety into their kids is a thing with them.

I guess I was lucky. I grew up before there was NPR.

Other than obviously limiting exposure and not to have the TV on all the time like 42% of parents, those are some good tips of being fact checkers when they hear if news from others and asking them how they feel, and being helpers. Thanks for the article.

Children embody emotions they are highly sentient and probably high in EmotionalIntelligence adults need to start connecting back to their emotions and putting it into vocabulary instead of giving thought response explanations to kids

You know what my kids are feeling about the news right now? Nothing, because they're busy being children. They don't need to be worrying about that BS. 🤷

Eat your Brussels sprouts son. But Russia is gunna nuke us. Oh that was 1963.

Shit first thing I say is sorry

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