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I turned the news on for the kids at breakfast and we talked about it - they asked a lot of questions - and now they're fully knowledgable. My daughter is especially concerned about kids that were in school when it happened.
I think hiding life from kids leads them to believe the world is a pleasant, peaceful place - when it's not - and with my town experiencing small earthquakes lately they need to know the serious problems that some people face due to mother nature.
I've heard so many things that happened when I was a kid - and I knew none of it. I don't have a single recollection of any major world or national events: everything from political unrest to natural disasters. So I feel like I was robbed of reality and it bothers me that others have memories of a time and place - and none of my memories matter. There's nothing I can add into a discussion of my thoughts and feelings becaues I have none.
It's a void - and it bothers me a lot that my parents raised us that way.
Good parenting. Our kids know that this could as easily happen to us here as to Japan. We have earthquake drills at home a couple of times a year so everyone knows what to do. Fortunately, we don't live close enough to the coast to have a tsunami, but we have many friends who do.