How should we talk to children about terrorism?

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The world is experiencing rapid events free of violence and terror, which puts pressure on every family that does not wish to live in fear. Some families are puzzled about how to convey the events for a child who is asking about the truth.

The parents may resort to silence and not to discuss any political details surrounding them, thinking that this protects their children and that silence is in their interest, since the children are still not ready to know the facts of the surrounding things, and the fact that this may deprive them childhood, only That not to discuss any details with children is wrong, according to experts who advise not to leave the child without a simple knowledge of things, because this makes them victims of their imagination.

German magazine Stern published an investigation into the subject: "Whether we like it or not, our children enjoy fertile imagination, and here comes the role of parents to help them sort out reality and fiction, and to alleviate the impact of words and shocking images in our world filled with everything that is violent and cruel, Between the ages of 5 and 8, it is difficult for them to understand the terrorist events around them.

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The first step that must be taken according to experts is to help the child to know the current situation, to distinguish what is happening in fact, and to know that what happens from terrorist acts is not an action film or science fiction or video games, but are more serious, so must explain the child from Are these terrorists? What are their goals? But in simple words without exaggerating depending on the age and degree of understanding of the child, at the same time should not be given all the details, and parents to monitor the actions of the child and his natural system, if he does not sleep well or not eat well or he is afraid to stay alone alone, Constitute a warning to parents.

Finally, it is important for parents to know that they are not only the only source of information to the child. The silence and not addressing these things by the parents is not necessarily protection for him, but the child will resort to someone else to know the information that may reach him in a distorted way. Because the child's understanding is still very fragile, and can remember in his memory things forever, which may generate a psychological node has, as parents must clarify the facts for children, we do not want to feel the small panic, but to understand correctly what is happening around the events.

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