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- Goldfish - 04-06-2002 10:08 PM
We were heading towards Rio mall and she saw the tall apartment building all lit up. Then she asked me if the people living there were afraid that a plane would hit the building.
Jeez, I shielded her so much from all that. No news, no talk around her. I explained basics but very little other than patriotism and sadness at what happened. I can't believe she asked that question.
I explained the whole thing. How it happened, how many people died, why the buildings fell down and why it won't happen again. Although she can't realy grasp the number of people who died, she understands after hearing Alan Jackson's song about Sept 11th that many people lost loved ones and everyone is sad.
She's almost 5 and very sharp. I asked her if she was scared and she once again told me she isn't afraid of anything.
GLC said we have to be smarter than the bad guys. Out of the mouth of babes.
- soonerterp - 04-06-2002 10:15 PM
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Goldfish:
We were heading towards Rio mall and she saw the tall apartment building all lit up. Then she asked me if the people living there were afraid that a plane would hit the building.
Jeez, I shielded her so much from all that. No news, no talk around her. I explained basics but very little other than patriotism and sadness at what happened. I can't believe she asked that question.
I explained the whole thing. How it happened, how many people died, why the buildings fell down and why it won't happen again. Although she can't realy grasp the number of people who died, she understands after hearing Alan Jackson's song about Sept 11th that many people lost loved ones and everyone is sad.
She's almost 5 and very sharp. I asked her if she was scared and she once again told me she isn't afraid of anything.
GLC said we have to be smarter than the bad guys. Out of the mouth of babes.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My eleven-year old nephew attends a grade school which is on a military base, and it tripped him out for a while after Nine-Eleven that there were armed soldiers standing guard at his school.
--soonerterp.
- BLAKESGIRL - 04-06-2002 10:20 PM
My bosses son (he's 22 so this is different), couldn't tell his parents where he was (it's a general rule) while he was overseas while all this happened, that scared them to death they had to play 20 questions with him. He's back in Hawaii now though.
- PoohTerp - 04-06-2002 10:35 PM
gf... i couldn't believe when i read this.. i had a similar experience with boo boo. she never mentioned anything about the 9/11 stuff while it was happening.. but a few weeks ago she saw a moving truck at my parent's house. she asked my mom who was moving and my mother jokingly said she was. boo asked her where she was moving and my mom said 'new york' because it was the first thing that popped into her head. boo boo got really serious and said 'grandmom.. you can't move there.. people fly planes into buildings and knock them down in new york.' we were all just flabberghasted!
- Goldfish - 04-07-2002 12:24 PM
Bizarre Poohterp. These critters are far sharper than I could ever imagine. I wonder what GLC and her buds talk about at school.
I opened the avenue for her to ask me any questions and she really did ask quite a few, particularly about how the people got out of the bldgs. It made her mad when I told her about the fake paperwork that the hijackers had and how they bought tickets by lying.
I kinda waffled yesterday before I explained it point blank but now I'm glad I did. She needs to hear the truth from Mommy about something so scary.
- PoohTerp - 04-07-2002 02:00 PM
I know, MOP.. makes me wonder how much they absorb that we don't even realize! My mother told me once that my grandfather died when my oldest sister was in first grade. Two years later, when she was in third grade, she got very upset because my mother had to go into the hospital for some routine female surgery. It was only then that they learned that my sister believed that anyone that went into the hospital did not come home again. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
- PoohTerp - 04-07-2002 02:04 PM
you know.. after i posted that, i had another thought. i think we, as parents, want to shield, protect and rationalize everything for our kids, but ultimately i guess it's stuff like this that shapes them and prepares them for later life. my older sister is a paramedic now... maybe, just maybe, that comes from her experiences when she was little. who knows.
- PoohTerp - 04-08-2002 06:52 AM
MOP.. amen!
I spend a lot of time with this internal battle of wanting to be a 'cool mom' that is 'hip to the new way of life' and just wishing everything was the way it used to be a long time ago when I was little. My mother tells me continuously that it was easier to be a parent when I was young and she's glad she doesn't have it to do all over again because there is too much to contend with these days.