--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yesterday i picked up lindsay, (who is 10 years old
> now) as i do every
> afternoon on my way home from work, and i asked her
> if she had heard about
> the events of the day.
This is very similar to how my son (he has just turned
11) reacted. He wanted to know if they were going to
come "here" and I had to tell him, no, they're not
going to come here. He did his screaming and crying
when he saw the film on TV - I don't know whether it's
right to let kids see this stuff, but I don't think
there's any way you can avoid it - it's everywhere. I
figure if he's going to see this, it's better to see
it when he's with his family so we can hold him and
hug him. He wanted to go after the people that did it
and kill them. I had to tell him, well, you can't
really do that can you? that's not the way to do it
(and anyway, they're aleady dead, aren't they?) He
hasn't said a word about it today and this is strange,
because Matthew is a kid with a LOT of anxieties. He
gets worried out of proportion about things that
wouldn't bother most people at all.
I'm sure that the numbness a lot of us feel about this
a great deal of the time is a form of self-protection,
much as someone who is in a bad accident doesn't
remember the event but sometimes, later, things come
back to them bit by bit - it's just too much to cope
with.
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