War through a child's eyes - How to speak to your children about Russia's invasion of Ukraine
manchestereveningnews.co.ukRussia's invasion of Ukraine is unsettling for the world, but it can be easy to forget the eyes and ears of the little people in our lives watching on in terror.
While anxiety among adults is often heightened amid a growing sense of uncertainty and helplessness, for children it can be even more terrifying.
The best attempts to keep it from younger ones don't always go to plan, with playground talk of World War Three and adult conversations involving 'bombs' and 'invasion'.
And when children reach a certain age, it's not possible to ignore the many questions they have about such conflict. So where do you start? Well experts say children of different ages and levels of understanding will need different information delivered in different styles and language so there's no one size fits all here.
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