'We’re not ruining their innocence, this stuff is happening around them, so they have to know,” an Anchorage therapist said.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - It’s a topic most parents would probably prefer not to talk about, but as horrifying as a school shooting is, experts say it’s an important discussion to have with children.
“Sometimes we think if we don’t bring it up to kids they’re not thinking about it or they’re not aware, but they are,” said Young-Ortiz. “They just are coming up with their own story about it, so we have to make sure that we are talking to them. We’re not ruining their innocence, this stuff is happening around them, so they have to know.”
“That’s part of our job as adults to know how to manage our own emotions so that we don’t hand them off to our children,” said Young-Ortiz. “It’s also okay to say to your child that you have big feelings about it. You want to validate kids’ fears. It’s okay for them to be afraid, and it’s okay for them to know that adults around them are calm and capable, but that it also can be scary.”
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