# Talking to kids about 9/11

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-kids-about-9-11/595880>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 11, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-kids-about-9-11/595880 "2011-09-11T00:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talking-to-kids-about-9-11/595880/1 "2011-09-11T00:05:26Z")

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Note: I asked for and was given permission to post this link.

If you are interested in suggestions on how to talk to children of any age about 9/11 or other tragedies, you may be interested in [this blog post](http://sunflowercreativearts.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/remembering-911-and-helping-our-children/), written by my boss.

My kids are 5 and 2, so we won’t be talking to them about 9/11 this year. The older one did hear something about it in kindergarten, but apparently not enough to make him curious, which is fine with me.