Help children to cope with terror

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 20 September 2001

A child psychologist has told carers and parents to expect to see some children playing at pretending to be aircraft crashing into buildings, in order to make sense of last week's tragedy in the United States.

A child psychologist has told carers and parents to expect to see some children playing at pretending to be aircraft crashing into buildings, in order to make sense of last week's tragedy in the United States. Dr Michele Elliott, founder and director of the charity Kidscape, said adults working in schools and nurseries would have to deal with the effect on children of seeing...

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