Ukraine: What Do We Tell Our Kids?

Shrinking It Down: Mental Health Made Simple · Mar 17, 2022 · 38m

The crisis in Ukraine feels to many like the straw that broke the camel’s back. Between the COVID pandemic, police brutality, the climate crisis, and now the war in Ukraine, the world may feel increasingly unsafe. Very young children, though, actually respond more to their adults’ distress than to the tragic events themselves. That said, repeated media exposure of horrific events can sometimes lead to PTSD in kids who do not experience the tragedies themselves.

This week, Gene and Khadijah discuss the important work of protecting our young people from the very real conflict they are…