9/11 Remembered: Explaining Tragedies to Children
By Ms. Anisa Foy Planes crashing into buildings, mass kidnappings, public executions, and beheadings – as our recent news shows, sometimes our world is filled with horrific tragedies. Exposing children to such acts of hate seems cruel, especially when I think back on my own reaction to September 11, 2001: I reached to switch off the TV and froze, was that a plane that flew into that very tall building in New York? I stood rooted to the spot and a little while later another pl