Why or why not?
How old are they or were they when you talked about it?
I'm kinda having an issue. I never spoke to my son about it. He is 9. I don't think he needs those kinds of worries about the world around him yet. I didn't plan on shielding him from everything forever but I wasn't ready to talk about it with him (or my 4 and 2 yos for that matter!) Yesterday, he came home from school and told me they watched a video about 9/11 and in his wide eyed terror stricken face he asked all sorts of questions about it happening again, him NEVER wanting to ride a plane again and many other topics that were tough for me to cover with him.
I really wish the school would have warned us they were showing something so I could at least have been prepared.
Aw, thats tough. My sister's is 9/12 and I think thats hard to be out celebrating something for yourself, when you should get to do that, on or near those kind of days.
Quoting Supervane:
It's her bday so I try to keep things as happy as possible
Yeah, I hope so too, you don't want to scare kids that badly about things for sure!
My friends were vacationing in NY in Sept. of 2001. They got back to CA on 9/11/01. That night I saw them for my Bday dinner and they showed me the pic they took as they were leaving NY. It is them with the towers in the back and the date stamp says 9/10/01. It was crazy to see.
Quoting Vertical15:
Thats neat that you have kept a scrapbook of it. We don't know anyone who is recently in the military or anyone who was directly involved though I did find out that my in-laws close friend lived in NY when it happened. She moved to PA shortly afterwards.
I hope the video wasn't too graphic. I would hope the school has some common sense about that!
Quoting TerriC:
My kids know a lot about it, mostly because it is my Birthday. I have kept a scrapbook since 9/11/01 til now and update it with newspaper articles etc. They also know a lot about it because we have family in the military and my step brother is a wounded warrior, so we do talk a lot about it. They are very curious. We have not shown them graphic video or anything like that yet, just the scrap book and talk about what they hear and see on the news.
We have talked about it and I've shared a little more as they've been older, mostly to answer questions. There was a lot last year for the tenth anniversary, so I wanted to prepare them.
I was a kindergarten teacher when it happened, and my students came off the bus that morning wanting to know what the radio was talking about or why their drivers started crying or why everyone was upset. The school where I taught was near an Air Force Base, and we had many military parents come to get their children and take them home that day. We also had a bomb threat later that afternoon and evacuated the school and sent everyone home early as well.
It was my first year of teaching and I didn't really know what to tell the kids, but I tried to keep it as simple as possible, just to answer questions, just saying that something bad had happened. I didn't really know a lot at that time, because it happened while I was at school and I wasn't able to watch TV or listen to the radio, and I knew if it was my child I would have wanted to be the ones to share the details I wanted them to know.
I guess we missed everything last year since I was cyber schooling then.
I would be nervous about talking to the kids about it but what could you have done since it was happening then?
Quoting TigerofMu:
We have talked about it and I've shared a little more as they've been older, mostly to answer questions. There was a lot last year for the tenth anniversary, so I wanted to prepare them.
I was a kindergarten teacher when it happened, and my students came off the bus that morning wanting to know what the radio was talking about or why their drivers started crying or why everyone was upset. The school where I taught was near an Air Force Base, and we had many military parents come to get their children and take them home that day. We also had a bomb threat later that afternoon and evacuated the school and sent everyone home early as well.
It was my first year of teaching and I didn't really know what to tell the kids, but I tried to keep it as simple as possible, just to answer questions, just saying that something bad had happened. I didn't really know a lot at that time, because it happened while I was at school and I wasn't able to watch TV or listen to the radio, and I knew if it was my child I would have wanted to be the ones to share the details I wanted them to know.
Exactly. I didn't want to talk about it with them. Like when I was pregnant I told them to ask their parents all the questions they came up with, but sometimes you have to head stuff off or at least give them the basics so that the older kids they see on the bus and the playground won't be able to color their vision too much.
Quoting Vertical15:I guess we missed everything last year since I was cyber schooling then.
I would be nervous about talking to the kids about it but what could you have done since it was happening then?
Quoting TigerofMu:
We have talked about it and I've shared a little more as they've been older, mostly to answer questions. There was a lot last year for the tenth anniversary, so I wanted to prepare them.
I was a kindergarten teacher when it happened, and my students came off the bus that morning wanting to know what the radio was talking about or why their drivers started crying or why everyone was upset. The school where I taught was near an Air Force Base, and we had many military parents come to get their children and take them home that day. We also had a bomb threat later that afternoon and evacuated the school and sent everyone home early as well.
It was my first year of teaching and I didn't really know what to tell the kids, but I tried to keep it as simple as possible, just to answer questions, just saying that something bad had happened. I didn't really know a lot at that time, because it happened while I was at school and I wasn't able to watch TV or listen to the radio, and I knew if it was my child I would have wanted to be the ones to share the details I wanted them to know.
How old were they when you talked about it?
Quoting Madelaine:
I did
Today is National .... 6/19
- Vertical15
on Sep. 12, 2012 at 10:50 AM