How to Talk to Children About Tragedy
Image by Goran Horvat from Pixabay It seems that you can’t turn on the news anymore without hearing about another shooting or terrorist incident. As parents, we want to protect our children from the evil that is in this world, but they will inevitably be exposed to it one way or another. So what do we tell them? How do we comfort and reassure our children after tragedy? In March of 2008, I had to tell my fifteen-year-old daughter that her best friend’s family had been murdered. And then later I had to tell her that her best friend was implicated …