How to talk to kids about terror

By Julia Baird
Updated June 4 2017 - 9:57pm, first published 9:45pm
Illustration: Simon and Adam Bosch.
Illustration: Simon and Adam Bosch.

My kids spent the sober, rainy days that followed the horrific Paris attacks with their grandparents, playing Monopoly. So it was somewhat gingerly that I introduced the subject later, asking what they had heard, and knew. "Not much", they responded, both walking into the kitchen and shrugging nonchalantly. A couple of minutes later my nine-year-old piped up: "Well I did read the newspaper and find out some stuff."

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