Breaking Down Global Events: A Parent's Guide to Conversations with their Kids
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, D and Jac are joined by their favorite pediatrician, Dr. Krupa Playforth, to explore the sensitive topic of discussing world events with young children. Together, they acknowledge the difficulty of finding the right words and the instinct to shield children from tragedy, while also recognizing that young ears are always listening and processing. They touch on the challenges of contextualizing these events, determining the right age for these conversations, and the struggle of balancing censorship while keeping kids informed. They emphasize the importance of addressing children's questions with honesty, supporting them through discomfort, and modeling appropriate emotional responses.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:19.0 | Happy Friday. Welcome back to the WellMed. Jack and I are prepping for D.C. today. And we cannot wait to join impact in health care there to talk to our state representatives about workplace violence. This week has been so heavy and painful for so many around the world. And I think we need to take a few collective breasts together. What do you say, |
| 0:38.2 | Jack? Yes, I completely agree. Okay. This week, we thought it would be really important to have |
| 0:48.9 | Dr. Krupa Playforth back on the pod. You may remember her from last season, but she is one of our |
| 0:53.6 | favorite pediatricians in real life and online with a wealth of resources for parents, with all the |
| 1:00.0 | violence in the media in recent mornings for children and teens to delete TikTok and Instagram |
| 1:04.9 | out of caution. Should they inadvertently see more death and destruction this week, we wanted to |
| 1:09.7 | hold some space for parents on |
| 1:11.1 | how to talk through tragedy with children. Dr. Playforth, we are so grateful to have you back on |
| 1:17.5 | the WOMED this week. We would love that we are under better circumstances. But this is such an |
| 1:25.0 | important topic. And Danielle and I feel really grateful to have you share your knowledge with us and with our WMAD listeners. |
| 1:35.3 | Thank you so much for having me back. I think this has been a really tough week for parents. |
| 1:41.2 | I can't imagine. I mean, like I was trying to think back in, you know, I feel like |
| 1:47.9 | everyone, my age and probably like a little bit younger, members where they were on 9-11 when |
| 1:55.3 | the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. And I just remember being very in shock, |
| 2:00.3 | being very confused, like it was on |
| 2:02.4 | every TV. Like, it was just like those repeated images that everyone was seeing. And it just feels |
| 2:08.3 | like such a mix of shock and fear. And I don't really remember any teacher or my parents even |
| 2:16.2 | being able to process it for themselves, let alone really be |
| 2:20.6 | able to talk through it and explain it to us and what was going on. |
| 2:25.2 | Yeah, I think it's really hard to find the words when things like that happen. |
| 2:29.2 | You know, I grew up outside of the U.S. in Malawi, in sub-S.-Saharan Africa, and with the |
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