Terrorism, How Can You Explain to Children?

The explanation of how to deal with your children on the assassinations in several countries and how they are presented dramatically in various media is Antonella Costatino, president of the Family neuropsytry Society and adolescence.

It directs some advice to mothers and fathers to avoid exposure to children with constant messages of anxiety.

First, she explains “is not good at pretending anything. Children understand more than you can think of, they feel emotions and fears from the air. Thus, they must associate in that understanding. Speech alone is important in reducing anxiety feelings”.

But before you speak, it is better than hearing. More than immediately giving an explanation, “find the way to start it: listen to what they imagine, what children perceive about the recent situations that have affected the entire world opinion”. To do that, “is generally a comment, a general thing, for example, what a mess!

It is one way to make it clear that it can be discussed further. Children can feel immediately authorized to speak. On the contrary, if children realize that adults do not want to talk, they close themselves”. No doubt every explanation should be deepened on the basis of age, but in general, it's important “resurface, without pretending that everything goes well”.

The message that helps children, the expert adds, is the phrase: “all this is not false, but everything is under control”, and not just explain that everything is being done to reduce risk. It's good to learn “is a part of life that we can't control, even though we can react to reducing the risk”.

You talk about the tragedy or the danger of potential assassinations does not mean you have to overload your children with images and news.

“It is impossible to change the channel between a report, because it would have the opposite effect, but rather avoid exposure to bloody images and not talk to them all day about these” events.

In their imagination <x0) fears can take uncontrolled proportions, transforming into obsession thoughts and nighttime anxieties. In this case, if you see major problems in your children, then point to a specialist”.

In the end this is a message that adults should understand most of the time.

The danger, Antonella Costantino concludes, “is to get to the message that the stranger or change may be bad. If you do so, you will create your child's seal on the people around”. /Telegraphy/