Handling and Explaining Global Tragedies to Your Kids

How do you explain a global tragedy to your kids? When a plane crashes with civilian passengers, or a terrorist attack happens, what are you supposed to do to handle that? Here are some tips for helping get through it.

It’s all over the news. Yesterday, a commercial flight was shot down over a very volatile zone. The thing that is traumatizing and scary about this is that a normal activity– flying on an airplane–is once again linked with tragedy. While of course, there’s danger in flying over a zone that’s essentially at war, it’s a flight path that a lot of planes were taking. This event just happened to be an anomaly, and it isn’t the first major tragedy kids have heard about on the news.

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