How to explain war to children

in Steem Skillshare2 years ago

In these hours it is almost impossible to keep children away from information, from news of the terrible events in Ukraine. However, hiding and completely censoring current events is not the method recommended by experts to deal with such situations.


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We can talk about war with children, we can also talk about the ugliest aspects, such as pain and death, and we can be afraid. Wars have always existed and will continue to do so, as have hope, love and recovery.

To deal with the discourse of war with children, you must first put yourself in listening mode, understand what are the doubts and questions that swirl in the heads of the little ones and help them understand what is happening. Leaving them alone would mean not providing them with a compassionate and humanitarian interpretation.

The hardest part comes just when the adults, who are also agitated by the current situation, who have to try to give a vision to the little ones. Here we try to give some quick tips:

  • listen to children
  • answer questions without censorship
  • leave room for emotions, even crying, to comfort later
  • show films, cartoons, stories that speak of war and pain with a moral of hope and, in general, positive
  • make empathy understood
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Hi @natulya21

Such a difficult past few years. Pandemic, lockdowns and now war. For so many people out there (Especially ukrainians) it must be a real nightmare.

I was wondering if you have any view on futute of Russia financial system (especially from the perpective or regular people) after interest rates has been hiked to 20%?

I can hardly imagine being able to pay any loans or morgage in similar situation. Especially while knowing, that all imported items will cost so much more since value of Rubel dropped so badly.

Any thoughts you like to share?

Cheers, Piotr

 2 years ago 

Well I'm in kazakhstan now, and even here the local currency dropped badly, I can say that here is not the first time, so we actually can handle a bit with this situation. One solution, for whom can afford and is smart enough is to change the savings money into foreign currency to protect them or, recently, into cryptocurrency, mainly BTC even if there are no official exchanges that accepts tenge, but in a way or another it is possible to change them

Somehow I've missed your reply @natulya21

I would like to say "thank you" for responding to my previous comment.

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