How to help your children cope with tragedies they see on the news

First published on 16th April 2013 in response to the Boston marathon bombing. Yesterday’s appalling news from Boston serves to highlight how easy it is for horrible things

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Living through Hurricane Andrew

Hurricane Andrew, Miami, 1992 Hurricane Andrew was a destructive tropical cyclone that was, at the time, the costliest hurricane in United States history. An account of a Peruvian

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Emergency evacuation after a disaster

After the Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing 2008 Continuing the story from the previous post… Emergency evacuation So within moments of hearing the noise of the bomb blast, then

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Coping with a disaster while living overseas

Islamabad 2008 “That was a bomb. A big one” It was a sound I will never forget. At the time, I didn’t know what it was – a

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