tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post376613020875709219..comments2023-10-16T06:43:48.874-07:00Comments on Me, You and Magoo: Should we talk to children about frightening world events?Me, You and Magoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18377654619731646440noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-42507465601354855472015-11-24T15:12:58.303-08:002015-11-24T15:12:58.303-08:00It really has been so scary and it's hard to e...It really has been so scary and it's hard to explain it to your loved ones that are so little at a time you don't understand it yourself. Love Katies drawing it almost makes me cry though that we are living in that kind of world. So sad and so scary. Thank you for stopping by LTM and linking up to SWM. I hope to see you again tomorrow for another great round of #sharewithmeLet's Talk Mommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07730374182778773358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-89645753699994402172015-11-21T04:37:27.103-08:002015-11-21T04:37:27.103-08:00I too have been overwhelmed by the events in Paris...I too have been overwhelmed by the events in Paris and making sense of them against blogging about lighter things and straight after I struggled so have been more silent than ever before on my blog. It's not that I haven't anything to say, but that it seemed so futile. Getting out and digging on the allotment helped though which is why I think I ended up writing about that instead. Symbolic I guess. And like your rose it's the hope that will see us through. Ps love the shot of it against your shed #hdyggStephanie 139ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15272197074159910894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-24827749157192678302015-11-20T12:12:43.447-08:002015-11-20T12:12:43.447-08:00I wonder Jibber Jabber if people used to think if ...I wonder Jibber Jabber if people used to think if they talked less, the problems would go away? A kind of " least said, soonest mended" type of attitude. I know my own Grandmother lived through some very tough times too & she never really spoke about it to her children. Perhaps being more open with our children is a generational thing? Also with rolling 24 hr news & the internet, our children are possibly exposed to far more than previous generations. We seem to live in a media-saturated age...Me, You and Magoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18377654619731646440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-60603841129299909932015-11-20T12:00:48.056-08:002015-11-20T12:00:48.056-08:00I was brought up by my nan who lived through two w...I was brought up by my nan who lived through two world wars in London. She also had a wife beating, adulterous husband aka my grandfather and I wonder how she ever lived through such times when she had a child to look after, then had a baby in the war, being bombed out again and again and spending hours in air raid shelters. Somehow she did and that gives me hope but it doesn't mean I want to face such times myself. Jibberjabberukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06866442037111512860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-46020017848107055592015-11-20T03:43:56.494-08:002015-11-20T03:43:56.494-08:00Thank you for taking the time to comment Annie. I ...Thank you for taking the time to comment Annie. I think your daughter is very perceptive...and her thoughts pretty much sum up the world today. Bad things are happening all the time & we definitely need to put energy into helping, if we can, rather than being angry.Me, You and Magoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18377654619731646440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920282627136401226.post-8590672687236941812015-11-19T06:34:55.252-08:002015-11-19T06:34:55.252-08:00It's been a week of much thought and reflectio...It's been a week of much thought and reflection here. Kitty has been watching the news and is very matter of fact about it. It doesn't seem to make her scared or angry just really sad. <br />She's learnt enough from school (and indeed me) about poverty in Africa and war in Syria to understand the world can be very different for people than the world around her. <br />She told me that the attacks in Paris made her sad, like the children with no clean drinking water in Africa and the families who have no homes in Syria. Bad people attacked people in Paris and bad people don't help children have clean drinking water. Very black and white, which surprised me and also put things in perspective for me, the whole thought that tragic things happen every day in the world and that it's better to focus on how to help make it better than to wallow in the anger of it all.<br />I totally avoided Facebook for just that reason.<br />Thanks for joining in - sorry for the rambling comment xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com