Children and young people in LA are experiencing devastating loss, while others are watching in horror from afar. Experts share how to approach these difficult conversations with sensitivity and honesty.
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It has quickly become a familiar refrain: We have never seen anything like the current Los Angeles wildfires before. And consequently, many parents have also been faced with an unprecedented task this week: how to explain this tragedy to our children.
First and foremost, of course, this is felt most painfully by those who have been directly impacted. For these parents—as we can only imagine—there must be little internal debate on the right way to describe events, simply because the danger is so immediate. And still, the effort to help young people make sense of the tragedy, to understand its indefinite scope, and to give them some hope for the future must be no easy task.
