Questions that get kids thinking! Today, about emotions, empathy and kindness. "When someone is scared, what can you do to help them feel safe?"

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A helpful tool for talking with children about their own fears and scary scenes in movies, scary images and words in the news or online – and connecting to caring and creative actions of empathy and kindness, and finding a strategy for managing your own fear by helping someone else feel safe.

Perfect for dinnertime or in the car, classroom and group discussions, when children are home sick, it’s rainy or too hot outside, or bored.

Helpful for sparking higher-level thinking and cognitive development in kids and grownups of any age, and especially kids age 3-6.

Our question today shared by fabulous writer, actor, director, arts magnet and the heart of St. Petersburg FL, Bob Devin Jones!

preschool

pre-K

talking with children

I'm scared

when children feel scared

managing childhood fears

night terrors

children and trauma

children and disasters

children and emergencies

talking with teens

dinner conversations

mealtime conversations

meaningful conversation starters

children and hurricanes – see the Sparks story, Day of Disasters and Doom! How to Feel Safe When It’s Scary

children and violence

talking with kids about the news

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