Nashua Childcare Providers | Creative Years » discussion with children http://www.creative-years.com Child Development and Learning Center Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Haiti Tragedy: Talking To Your Kids http://www.creative-years.com/creative-years-news/the-haiti-tragedy-talking-to-your-kids/ http://www.creative-years.com/creative-years-news/the-haiti-tragedy-talking-to-your-kids/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:23:19 +0000 creative-years http://www.creative-years.com/?p=1112 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.

Photo Credit: JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

Photo Credit: JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

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

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