It depends on how weak they are. But the principles seem to be to accept their fear,secure them to talk about it, and encourage them to develop a sense of proportionProcessing the nightmare of the Paris attacks is tough enough for grownups. I write as someone who all day on Saturday approached the Guardian’s live blog by stealth in a desperate effort to avoid confronting the visual evidence of the carnage. Reading about it was possible, and hearing about it harder,but watching it was beyond me. So what about the kids?The standout useless approach is the one adopted by the BBC’s Newsround bulletins. This features two teachery young women who use the word “unhappy” a dozen times, without ever giving any viewer of any age any sensible understanding about why they might be unhappy, or beyond saying that “more than a hundred people had died in Paris,which was a “city like London”.
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Source: theguardian.com