Kids and News
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-09-01/kids-and-news
Guest Host:
Diane Vogel
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, children who were very young, or not born yet at the time of the attacks, are likely to be exposed to footage of the event for the first time. And recent natural disasters are enough to make anyone anxious, especially kids. We'll learn how to handle questions about complicated issues and find age-appropriate news resources for children.
Guests
Tracy Grant
KidsPost Editor; The Washington Post
Claudia Heitler
founder; Here There Everywhere - News for Kids
Joseph Viola
Educational Psychologist, St. Albans School; professor, The George Washington University Professional Psychology Program
Comments
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Hi,
I'm a student of Dr. Joe Viola's at the GW Center for Professional Psychology. The discussion has reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago at a dinner with friends from Latin America. When I disclosed that I was pursuing my doctorate in clinical psychology, a Colombian woman asked my advice about how to get her 12 year-old daughter to watch the news with her. Apparently, this woman's daughter ran from the room whenever she saw any distressing news on television. Her mother, recalling that she had been exposed to so much violence in her native country, couldn't quite understand her daughter's reaction and worried that her daughter would grow up to be naive as to the ways of the world. She couldn't quite believe that her daughter's reaction was simply her way of modulating exposure to something she thought was emotionally scary.
I'm wondering if you can comment on the tolerance of and exposure to violence in different cultures... indeed perhaps in our own inner cities where children are exposed to a lot more violence on a day to day level. In other words, how does one help children manage violence they see around them even when it is so hard for them to process it.
Thanks,
Marta Miranda
Hi,
I'm a retired middle school ESOL teacher in Montgomery County, MD. I've had to explain Christa Macullah. 9/11 was awful because students in our school lost family members who worked at the Pentagon. The worst was when the DC sniper was terrorizing the area. The second person shot was a father of one of the students in our school. Our school was on lock down for 3 weeks.
Hopefully teachers today will some get training on how to deal with terror and death...it would have helped all the staff in our school for sure.