Before the last and inhuman attacks of last weekend, we gave certain guidelines to help you explain it to your children. I believe that every father and mother has the right to expose their children or not to the harsh reality of the world in which we live and I am in favor of never lying to our children about any situation that affects them.
But in this case there are so many factors involved that I think it would be too complicated for them to understand, even briefly, what has happened, therefore, My children don't know what happened in Paris.
Avoid unnecessary exposures
As I've said before, it's not a matter of lying to youIn fact, we were thinking how to explain what had happened in case they found out or heard us talk about it, but I don't think it's necessary to expose them at their age, the oldest is six years old, to a harsh reality for which I don't think they are prepared. If not even many adults understand very well what has happened, the reasons why someone decides to carry out a massacre.
Not all people are good, but the world in general is good
My children are very clear that not everyone around them has good intentions and that there are "bad people" out there, they shouldn't trust strangers and of course they should never go with them; But I want their world, that in which they spend most of their time, that of a few children of a few years remains magical, in which the bad ones are the goblins, trolls, the witches and wicked sorcerers and the ogres that don't They are Shrek or Fiona. A world in which the good always ends up winning and the bad ones become friends.
I don't want your world full of fearsI don't want to be asked if something is going to happen to them for dinner outside or that for a moment they fear that their father or mother will not return home. For that there is plenty of time, I don't think it will be a long time until they learn that life is not only unfair but that it is often evil, but in the meantime your mind will grow older and be able to assimilate and reason certain concepts.
What happened in Paris is not an act of "bad people" but something much deeper, a kind of iceberg of human barbarism, how to explain to a child what adults are capable of doing? How to explain that those monsters that live in their stories pale in the face of what some "adults" are able to do with the world that one day we will leave them?
