ABSTRACT

The eternal question of how we can prepare our children to live in a world that we can’t understand ourselves has been magnified for the generations of kids born into a personal and media-induced intimate experience of war, terrorism, random violence, and nuclear threat that the adults around them had never known. We ask ourselves what we can do for the children, and the response might well be to allow them to grieve their losses, help them reduce their fears, and instill in them again a sense of safety and protection in their homes, their schools, their communities, and their world.