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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if your kids are merely friends of friends, perhaps you need to monitor who is discussing it to the point of making them "scared out of their minds."  It's not something to be making drama about and riling up friends of friends.  I assume these kids are all about the age of 10.  Kids like drama and feeling like they are news reporters.  They are likely repeating what they hear at home.[/quote]

No you have this wrong. The facts, all by themselves, are quite enough to frighten kids. And adults. But definitely kids. Please don't assume that the friends of the child are being overly dramatic. [/quote]

My 10 year old doesn't know.  (I get news online so we never have a tv on for that) If he/she did, it would be because a child said something.  [/quote]

+1. never have the news on. I did not discuss it at all, my kids are in DCPS and as far as I know they do not know anybody who knew the family.  what happened is unbearable for an adult and I think cannot really be told to a child that young. if the dead by was a classmate, I think we would probably say that somebody wanted to steal something from the family and killed them, without any details. after Sandy Hook, my oldest (then 7) asked questions because apparently I was discussed at school. she seemed concerned that it could happened at her school and that she was in danger. I was still in shock myself, I think I told her that it was a very exceptional event with a very sick person who had died and that her school was safe and that she was going to be safe. I am not sure if I said the right things but I really do not know what to say otherwise.    [/quote]

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