How to Talk To Kids About War: How young is too young? What should parents even say? – Mo News Rundown
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I am Jill Wagner and you are listening to a special edition of the |
| 0:08.6 | Mono's podcast. It has now been more than two weeks since Hamas attacked Israel on October |
| 0:14.5 | 7th, killing more than 1,300 people and taking more than 200 hostage. Israel has responded |
| 0:21.7 | with airstrikes in Gaza that have left thousands dead. The images are gruesome. The testimony |
| 0:27.6 | from survivors and victims' families is heartbreaking and it's all just so hard to process |
| 0:34.7 | even for adults a thousand miles away. So how should we as parents be talking to kids about |
| 0:42.3 | what is happening in the Middle East, especially in an era of social media? To answer that |
| 0:48.2 | question and more, I am joined by Nero Feliciano, a cognitive psychotherapist and best-selling |
| 0:54.8 | author of this book won't make you happy. Eight keys to finding true contentment. Nero is |
| 1:00.7 | also a mother of four kids. Nero, really appreciate your time today. Oh, I'm happy to talk about |
| 1:07.1 | this because it's on everyone's minds and especially, you know, I have four kids elementary |
| 1:12.1 | school, one in middle and two in high school. So we're having different kinds of conversations |
| 1:18.2 | depending on age. So I know most adults are really struggling with the state of the world |
| 1:23.8 | right now, a war in the Middle East that for a lot of us hits really close to home. There |
| 1:29.0 | are concerns that it's going to spread and there's also this rising level of hate that we are |
| 1:34.4 | seeing hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Middle East right here in the United States. |
| 1:39.7 | So the number one question that we have been getting from parents is that what age is appropriate |
| 1:46.1 | to start talking to kids about what's going on? So Jill, if you speak with child psychologists, |
| 1:52.6 | they say that any age where the child is affected is appropriate. We have to give them some context. |
| 2:00.2 | Now what we say to them is going to vary by age, but if a child is affected, meaning they're |
| 2:06.0 | in a family where there's heightened emotion, they may be going to a place of worship that now |
| 2:10.8 | has changed. They may have a family member abroad or someone in the military serving. These are |
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