What are you telling your children about what is going on in the world?

**heaven** · 03-19-2003, 10:12 PM

Roman and Myriah were watching Survivor when they broke in to say the bombing has started over Baghdad, They said the school hasn't said anything about it (the teachers.) I wound up telling Myriah that Hussan is Crazy (how do you explaine this to a child when they are taught to to fight but here we are bombing this country? just wondering are you children asking questions are you answering them. It is hard here because she worries about everything.

**homesteadmamma** · 03-19-2003, 10:17 PM

Heaven, this might help you:

http://www.cbc.ca/kids/parents/child...war/index.html

**heaven** · 03-19-2003, 10:17 PM

Thanks Cj that will help.

**captclearance** · 03-19-2003, 10:33 PM

My 6 year old Jeff isn't really aware of what's going on.......
My 11 y/o dd(Kelly) and I had a talk long ago, I told her about Adolph Hitler and how he was not taken seriously until 6 million people had died........... I told her Saddam is this same insanity revisited...... Winston Churchill said "those that refuse to remember the past are condemned to relive it " ..............
The time for apathy is outlived, these tyrannical, insane leaders can no longer be allowed to rein their terror upon the innocent !!!!!!!!! She knows the American Soldier fights to defend all of us, they defend those who cannot defend themselves ! This is what sets the American Soldier apart from all others !!!!!
She knows the terrible cost and suffering, but she also understands this must be done, not just for us, but for the innocents in Iraq also ..........
Many would disagree with me, but this is how I feel and this is what I have explained to my daughter.............

**mrscornbread** · 03-19-2003, 10:45 PM

The truth as best I know it, the only thing I can do.

**Kimmomo3** · 03-20-2003, 12:51 AM

2 and 4 yr. nothing and no new is on around them.

8yr just the generalitys of it, and it is not here he will be fine.

**Karla** · 03-20-2003, 02:02 AM

I also agree with Lori, but in our household my youngest is 16 and is older brother is in the military. He knows and understands but doesn't dwell on it. I've also been honest in telling him the realities of war but not the gore....He saw and understood what happened on 9/11 and realizes that things need to change so that doesn't become a way of life for us....to live in terror and fear.

**lucy979** · 03-20-2003, 07:35 AM

Well, my husband is in the war and DD knows that that is where he is but not what actually goes on there. I'm trying not to watch the news while she is here. I guess I will be as truthful as I feel I can be.

**pita1213** · 03-20-2003, 09:18 AM

my dks are 7 and 5. neither of them have asked about it so i doubt they know anything is going on right now. if they do ask, i will tell the the truth as best as i know it and on a level they will understand.

**heaven** · 03-20-2003, 11:21 AM

I totally agree Lori. I have explained it to her and answered the bizillion questions she asked.

**paelthom** · 03-20-2003, 11:47 AM

My dd is a sensitive child and I have answered her questions honestly but not in any more detail than was absolutely necessary. I will limit what she sees on the tv. She is scared as we all are I guess.

**Ellise** · 03-20-2003, 02:11 PM

DS has been watching it. While he is scared (and who isn't) he understands that tyrants like these need to be taken care of whatever that may be. He is a big History buff so, realizes that these things sometimes happen. Of course we answer all of his questions. As best we can.

**MANDERS** · 03-28-2003, 04:31 PM

First I told Lauren about the differences about America and Iraq.I explained to her that if we don't like what our president says then we can disagree(I used the protesters as an example)and in Iraq if you disagree with what sudam says then you will be punished and yes i explained to her that he hurts people and kills people.I also told her that Iraq has big bombs that they could send over here to kill people and make them sick and that we are trying to find sudam to stop him from doing that.I told her that the men and women in the military signed up for it unlike the millitary in Iraq where they were forced to be in it.And that our military is there to protect us and fight bad guys so things like the planes crashing in the buildings won't happen again.This is kinda word for word of what I told her about the war.