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Kids Need Sense of Normalcy, Reassurance in Time of Crisis

Kids Need Sense of Normalcy, Reassurance They Are Not Alone in Time of Crisis

12/17/2012

PBS News Hour

Kids Need Sense of Normalcy, Reassurance in Time of Crisis

Clip: 12/17/2012 | 7m 45s

Kids Need Sense of Normalcy, Reassurance They Are Not Alone in Time of Crisis

As parents around the country nervously dropped their children off at school the week after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, Jeffrey Brown talks to psychaistrist Dr. Nancy Rappaport and psychologist Amy Smith about what to say and what not to say to children in times of crisis, and the importance of routine.

12/17/2012

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