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Below are some resources to help you discuss and process scary situations with your children.

• Responding to spiritual questions and emotional needs after tragedies
• Videos to help parents of our youngest children talk to their kids about scary situations (there are videos both for parents and for parents to watch with their children)
• What to do (and not to do) when children are anxious, from the Child Mind Institute
• Big picture article about how to explain bad things to children of all ages 
• Helping children of all ages to process acts of terrorism (whether or not one feels this is terrorism, the principles still apply) 
• Helping children cope with tragedy related anxiety, from Mental Health America