Comments on: Help your children make sense of natural disasters – By Micahel Grose http://planningwithkids.com/2009/02/13/help-your-children-make-sense-of-natural-disasters-by-micahel-grose/ 2 parents, 5 kids, organised chaos Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kathy http://planningwithkids.com/2009/02/13/help-your-children-make-sense-of-natural-disasters-by-micahel-grose/comment-page-1/#comment-4404 Kathy Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:02:49 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/?p=1527#comment-4404 Yes, all good advice, and very useful in helping kids process things. My daughter's school has been collecting old sheets and towels for the Werribee Vet Hospital which is treating many injured native animals and she has been very keen to help me sort our linen and deliver it - I think practical action is so important for kids to feel some sense of agency in these tragedies. We also have not had TV on at all (on news, I mean) as I don't think it is helpful or necessary for a 5 and 3 year old to see these images. We have talked about the fires as much as they want to and I haven't withheld any truths from them, but the graphicness - no, that they don't need. Yes, all good advice, and very useful in helping kids process things. My daughter’s school has been collecting old sheets and towels for the Werribee Vet Hospital which is treating many injured native animals and she has been very keen to help me sort our linen and deliver it – I think practical action is so important for kids to feel some sense of agency in these tragedies. We also have not had TV on at all (on news, I mean) as I don’t think it is helpful or necessary for a 5 and 3 year old to see these images. We have talked about the fires as much as they want to and I haven’t withheld any truths from them, but the graphicness – no, that they don’t need.

]]> By: Mistress B http://planningwithkids.com/2009/02/13/help-your-children-make-sense-of-natural-disasters-by-micahel-grose/comment-page-1/#comment-4391 Mistress B Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:03:16 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/?p=1527#comment-4391 Lots of sound advice there :) <abbr><em>Mistress Bs last blog post..<a href="http://robecriluto.com/?p=1552" rel="nofollow">More than one way to weigh a vege?</a></abbr></em> Lots of sound advice there :)

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