Very young children do not need to learn specifics about conflicts they can’t understand, and should be reassured that the war is far away
My oh my how the TV news channels do love a war. Brave news anchors dressed in camo gear report over explosions while tanks, armoured vehicles and men with serious weapons pass by.
If a child asks “Why are they fighting?” a reassuring response could be something along the lines of: “They’re fighting over who should be in charge but it is far away from here.” Starting with relatively young children who are still not able to distinguish news stories from their own realities, vivid news of death and destruction come through a variety of platforms and sources.
That is still a challenge for them when delivered by authoritative-sounding TV news anchors accompanied by gruesome images of mutilated bodies in Israel and blasted apartment complexes in Gaza or Kyiv, which are as close as a few swipes away on the iPads they use for their homework. Today’s wars are conducted in relatively restricted locations. But our kids, even older kids, do not have that life perspective.
I knew nothing of the politics or bloodshed in the streets of that event, just that these kids were refugees and a war I did not understand had taken place very far away, in another country.
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