Many parents have that experience when they are watching television news with their children, and something bad or inappropriate comes on, and they think, “Should my children be seeing this?” Sometimes it’s easier to say nothing and hope they missed what you just saw, but as I find out almost every time, kids don’t miss much. They may not understand it, but they saw it and they are thinking about it.
It’s hard to know what children really understand. We watched the documentary film Bully with our 7 and 11-year-old. The 11-year-old clearly understood everything going on and it had an effect on him. A lot of the film seemed not to resonate with the 7-year-old. She was sad because we were sad. You can somewhat control films your younger kids see, but it’s much harder with the local or national news.
[for more on this story by George Siegal please visit: http://movetheworldfilms.org/b...ould-our-children-be]
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