Hi there. We're all thinking of the victims and families of the U-Valdy School shooting this week.

If you're struggling about how to talk with your kids about this tragedy, this episode might help.

First, it was the radio. Then, television. And now, the internet.

Bringing news of the outside world into our homes.

Wait, Corey, what is this? That was pretty good, right? I thought this was life-cut.

That was my announcer voice. I'm doing an old news reel.

Oh, okay, great. Well, we're talking about news in our homes, right?

Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so we are. So, yes, we are all taking a news all the time.

This crazy 24-hour news cycle. But we don't always realize is that our children are often listening

right alongside us. And sometimes that's not so great.

I was really little during the Vietnam War.

Allison Alquah grew up in rural Louisiana.

My dad was in favor of the war and watching the news in the evening after work.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence,

the optimists who have been wrong in the past.

Allison says her mom didn't want her watching the daily drumbeat of Vietnam coverage.

But the way that our house was set up, it was sort of impossible for me to completely miss it.

I was just disallowed from like sitting down in front of the television and watching.

And I think that my mom thought that she was doing a better job of protecting me from it than

she actually was. Every time the Americans tried to move through the embassy yard,

the hidden Vietnam. So I would catch sort of glimpses of the film from Vietnam.

And, you know, just sort of words. And one of those words confused and terrified her.

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