The Haiti Tragedy: Talking To Your Kids

Given the imagery and reports that children may see and hear, it is important to be able to know how to explain that they are seeing and hearing.

This article was recently published on the Forbes.com website by Joan Indiana Rigdon.

Haiti is horrifying for any parent, for any person. I can’t stop thinking of one photo, of a woman half-buried in rubble holding her hand out to the photographer for help; of all those buildings leveled like closed accordions.

Between the Web and Twitter and text, I’ve donated money; tracked the progress of the USNS Comfort hospital ship across the Atlantic; read on-the-ground pleas from doctors with not enough IVs. At one point a journalist friend sent news of a particular clinic 70 miles north of Port-au-Prince with seven doctors and not enough patients. Along with others, I echoed its coordinates into Twitter and felt briefly useful…

Talking To The Kids About Haiti