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What Do We Tell Our Children?

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In the wake of the tragedy here in the United States, I have decided to focus this month's column on ways that experts recommend we talk to our children about the attack and also on what individual parents are saying to their kids. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

From the National Mental Health Agency, Helping Children Deal with Disaster-Related Anxiety http://www.nmha.org/reassurance/children...

From CNN, Talk About It, Counselors Advise http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.edn...

From the Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Coping with Fears http://www.childrens.com/fears.htm

From Parenting Press, How to Talk to Kids About Violence http://www.parentingpress.com/resp_issue...

From ParentsPlace, Attack on America: Helping Your Kids Understand, includes information on talking to very young children. http://www.parentsplace.com/toddlers/soc...

A lovely column attributed to Alex Neve that was posted on the Mothering boards http://www.mothering.com/ubb/Forum37/HTM...

Again, on the Mothering site, what some parents are saying to their children http://www.mothering.com/ubb/Forum37/HTM...

What parents are saying at The New Homemaker http://www.newhomemaker.com/phorum/read....

ParentsPlace has created a message board for discussing the tragedy http://boards2.parentsplace.com/messages...

Need some hopeful messages? Letters from mothers in Isreal and Palestine courtesy of Mothering Magazine. http://www.mothering.com/letterfrommoms....

And finally, one last link with some beautiful images suitable for downloading and placing on your desktop for inspiration. http://thankyou.fast-networks.net/

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