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When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« on: September 11, 2019, 04:51:47 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2019, 04:54:17 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?
First we must be clear on what did happen
 
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2019, 04:54:37 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?
Whenever they learn about it in school

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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2019, 05:02:22 PM »
Whenever they learn about it in school
Was wondering if they would teach my kid about it in 3rd grade today.
But not yet. I guess 4th or 5th grade?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2019, 05:02:35 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?
When you think they will understand.
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2019, 05:03:50 PM »
Was wondering if they would teach my kid about it in 3rd grade today.
But not yet. I guess 4th or 5th grade?
No later than 8th.
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2019, 05:05:16 PM »
First we must be clear on what did happen
What did happen or why it happened?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2019, 05:06:56 PM »
When you think they will understand.
Older than 34 then?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2019, 05:07:07 PM »
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2019, 05:08:39 PM »
Older than 34 then?
My kids grew up around it so it's difficult for me to say but they all knew by the time they were five or six years old
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2019, 05:09:45 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?
I feel like the holocaust is a bigger talk for Jewish kids. What age is that done?

No later than 8th.
I had holocaust studies in 7th grade iirc.

Are there text books teachers use to teach 9/11 or it's too recent for that?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2019, 05:12:12 PM »
Was wondering if they would teach my kid about it in 3rd grade today.
But not yet. I guess 4th or 5th grade?
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2019, 05:17:55 PM »
I feel like the holocaust is a bigger talk for Jewish kids. What age is that done?
I had holocaust studies in 7th grade iirc.

Are there text books teachers use to teach 9/11 or it's too recent for that?
10 year olds can understand IME. My kids grew up with a great grandmother who was in Auschwitz.

Im sure there are textbooks except in Minnesota.
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2019, 05:22:03 PM »
Im sure there are textbooks except in Minnesota.
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2019, 05:23:27 PM »
I had holocaust studies in 7th grade iirc.
In 7-8th grade all should be able to understand at that point. It does not hurt to hold off a year or two.
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2019, 05:26:09 PM »
I had holocaust studies in 7th grade iirc.
Will you have your kids visit Auschwitz? If so what age should they at least be? @jj1000
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2019, 05:32:40 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?

when do you tell your kids about Pearl Harbor?

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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2019, 05:36:01 PM »
Will you have your kids visit Auschwitz? If so what age should they at least be? @jj1000
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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2019, 05:52:41 PM »
So, what age do you talk to your kids about what happened on 9/11?

Because of my uncle, I think we talked with the kids briefly about it when they were younger, maybe 3rd or 4th grade. But in simplistic terms - there were really bad people who wanted to hurt america and americans, and they hurt and killed a lot of people.

I had my uncle come speak to their middle school (6-8th grades) 4 years ago and even then he didn't go into to much detail. Now that my older two boys are in HS, I fill them in with more details.


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Re: When Do You Talk To Your Kids About 9/11?
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2019, 05:54:13 PM »
I did march of the living when I was 21, was extremely powerful and easily one of the most moving experiences of my life. But I don't think I would have appreciated it as much if I was younger. Would likely appreciate it even more today as a parent.
Did you march Auschwitz to Birkenau?
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