Under No Circumstances Should You Read Them 'The Pet Goat'
As September 11 nears its inevitable reappearance on our calendar, Sara Berman at the New York Sun wonders how we'll tell the children. A private school counselor gives her some advice:
"You'll probably need to be the one to start the conversation with your child," he said. "At dinner or at some other quiet time you could say something like, 'Five years ago, something very sad happened to our country. You might hear people talking about September 11th and I want you to know what happened on that day. Bad people flew airplanes into important buildings. Lots of people were hurt and lots of people were killed. Just like we remember happy things every year, like birthdays, we also remember very sad things.'"
You know, the same way they explained it to the president.
