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little girl still missing

May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Local girl, Neveah Buchanan, missing since Sunday, has still not been found.

It’s a really big story.  How do you talk to your kids about this?

What do you say when your son says “That’s my teacher!” when they’re interviewing the preschool teacher about how sweet and shy the little girl was at school.

What do you say when your daughter says “Kayla lives in that apartment building”

And what will you say if it turns out that the mom or the boyfriend did it?  However do you explain that a parent would do that or let that happen?  But what if it’s a stranger?  How do you explain how dangerous the world is without terrifying them?

So sad.

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  • 1 Monroe on a Budget // May 27, 2009 at 6:16 am

    My daughter was in fifth grade when the Columbine High School shootings took place in 1999. My husband and I deliberately did NOT turn on the TV news that night, breaking our usual routine.

    We gave her very limited details about the situation. I do remember telling her that if there was ever a problem at her school to listen to her teachers – they were trained in what to do.

    Now this was a really difficult situation for my husband and I to deal with. We were in Ohio at the time. I worked at a newspaper, he worked at a radio station. During the next two weeks, several high schools and some grade schools in the community where we lived had false alarms and security alerts based on people saying things they shouldn’t be saying.

    But while we needed to stay on top of the situation, she did not. All she needed to know was what to do if that happened to her school.

    If I had a young child at home right now, I would keep up with the details on my own time but limit what the children see.

  • 2 Emilie // May 27, 2009 at 8:26 am

    Yes, the flow of information can be controlled at home, but for kids that go to school, they are coming home with a lot of mis-information that elementary school classmates are discussing.

    I am going to email the teacher today and ask her if she has said/ will say something to the class about the situation.

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