Health

Helping children through horrific events

13:17 pm on 6 September 2021

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Friday's terror attack in New Lynn, Auckland left New Zealand shocked. These awful events can be hard for adults to get their heads around, so how do we explain them to our kids?

Child and Family Psychologist at the Parenting Place, Linde-Marie Amersfoort talks to Jesse about how to talk to our primary or teen age kids about the scary things that are going on the world right now.

Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi