When something terrible like the Manchester bombing happens, children wonder about it, and worry.
Nowadays they don't just watch TV reports, it's all over the internet and social media.
Some schools conduct special assemblies or lessons to help explain, if an explanation is possible, and to help quell fears.
All children, we must recognise, don't know what these events mean for them.
Who does?
I remember way back when a famous person was unwell, dying in fact.
The news programmes said that there'd be another bulletin in an hour, something like that.
A child we were looking after at the time became more and more upset, which at first we thought was down to the gravitas of the unfolding story.
Wrong.
The child became more and more affected by the ongoing reporting, and ended up in hysterics in his room. We attended. He sobbed;
"No wonder he's dying, every hour they put another bullet in him!"
I haven't made that up.
TV news is something we have to help our children with, especially our foster children.
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