The advice is one of a number of coping strategies published by the National Education Association (NEA) in its crisis communication guide for school staff and parents. It said the guide was to help them to 'monitor the health needs of children during this difficult time' and added, 'As educators, parents and American citizens, make no mistake, our world has been rocked by these terrorist attacks.' The NEA said, 'Re-enactments and play about the catastrophe should be encouraged. It may be useful to provide (children) with special time to paint, draw or write about the event. Adults or older children may help pre-school children re-enact the event, since pre-school children may not be able to imagine alternative "endings" to the disaster and hence may feel particularly helpless.'
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