AmericanDad.com Now Offers Tips For Parents on How to Talk to Kids About Terrorism
The world is hard enough for an adult to understand, let alone children. Parents can help their kids deal with the recent terrorist attacks by providing them a place of safety, predictability and curiosity.
Boston, MA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct)
August 4, 2005 -- In these days of terrorist activities children are
increasingly bombarded with inescapable negative information and images. Parents
can help their children deal with this negative information by communicating
with them. By logging on to www.AmericanDad.com, parents can read newly posted tips and
learn how to talk to their children about the sobering facts of terrorism in
today's world – and help them feel better.
AmericanDad's child
psychologist and trauma specialists, Kim Kolton and Kevin Creeden, provide steps
any parent can undertake to help children feel comforted and safe. By staying
actively involved in the discussions about what children might have seen or
heard, parents can help them understand what is going on and how to
cope.
The articles, broken down by age groups, provide practical advice
on steps that a parent can take to:
* Increase children's sense of
safety
* Minimize the potential for children being over stimulated by news
events
* Incorporate every day life events as lessons to help children
understand what is going on
* Help children understand that his or her
safety, and that of your own, is being protected by many public and law
enforcement officials and people who work hard to keep them safe every
day
“As parents we are being extremely naive if we think these types of
events have no impact on our children. Discussing the issue with your kids is an
important part of making them feel safe and we feel these articles will prove
helpful," says AmericanDad.com CEO, Peter Demers. Demer also notes that “you may
actually find in discussing the issue with your kids that they have a better
understanding than yourself.”
About AmericanDad.com
AmericanDad.com is a site specifically designed for guys with kids. The
site provides content authored by experts and "real" Dads across a number of
categories that are intended to help Dads spend more time and build stronger
relationships with their kids. In addition to the content, AmericanDad.com gives
advertisers an opportunity to provide targeted ads to this active consumer
demographic.
For more information, contact:
AmericanDad.com:
Peter
F. Demers
AmericanDad.com
617-259-1512
www.americandad.com
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