How to talk to your kids about violence
Are you having discussions with your children about the topic of violence and where violence is may happen in their life, how they're going to be able to manage it, what happens when they see it, how to make basic sense of it?
Well, in this episode, I will introduce you to a couple of tactics you can use to have those very important discussions with your children about violence.
Let's get started.
First, why is it that we don't have those discussions with our children about the topic of violence? Meanwhile, violence is all around them, whether it be in entertainment, in media, at school, in music… they're constantly exposed to high, high levels of violence all around them.
How often do we have those discussions so they make sense of it and they're able to manage it inside their heads for the rest of their lives?
Let’s look back at when we were kids. When I was a young child, the actual discussion of emotional-based topics such as sexuality was just something completely taboo. It was barely discussed in schools. When it was, it was in specific 15 minute classes that were for some reason taught by our gym teacher.
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