Indeed, the young have some special 'takes' on what is happening as shown on the TV news.
My 11 year old grandson has not stopped asking questions about what is going on, why, who is involved, who is "not on our side", is the UK 'with' the USA, what countries are in NATO and the UN, the history of Russia, the West and WW2, etc, etc. All good sensible, intelligent questions. But then he didn't go to school yesterday, first telling his mum he didn't feel well, then later he told her he was frightened "that his school would be bombed by Russia"
I had to settle him down when I called on my daughter and further explained what was happening and it did not threaten us [for now!!]. It was not helped by a on-line friend claiming that "Russia had bombed the UK". But the friend had misunderstood the name
Ukraine, thinking it was the UK!!
I bet children everywhere, who never knew the Cold War years, are getting worried as they see pictures of their age groups in Ukraine suffering as they are. Time for a lot of child counselling me thinks for the children in our rather soft and comfortable World of today.
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