This latest installment in the bestselling What To Do series tackles
children's feelings of anxiety around current events and what is
portrayed in the news. Scary news is an inevitable part of life. This
book can support and guide efforts to help scary news seem a bit more
manageable for young people.
Whether from television news reports, the car radio, digital media, or
adult discussions, children are often bombarded with information about
the world around them. When the events being described include violence,
extreme weather events, a disease outbreak, or discussions of more
dispersed threats such as climate change, children may become frightened
and overwhelmed. Parents and caregivers can be prepared to help them
understand and process the messages around them by using this book.
What to Do When the News Scares You provides a way to help children
put scary events into perspective. And, if children start to worry or
become anxious about things they've heard, there are ideas to help them
calm down and cope. This book also helps children identify reporters'
efforts to add excitement to the story which may also make threats seem
more imminent, universal, and extreme.
Read and complete the activities in What to Do When the News Scares
You with your child to help them to understand the news in
context--who, what, where, when, how--as a means of introducing a sense
of perspective.
Also available in Spanish Qué Hacer Cuando las Noticias te
Asustan: Guía para Niños para Entender las Noticias Actuales
Chapters include:
Extensive note to parents and caregivers
Chapter 1. Sometimes scary things happen.
Chapter 2. What is news?
Chapter 3. Things that make the news more scary
Chapter 4. Did you see that!
Chapter 5. Keeping it real
Chapter 6. Un-news
Chapter 7. Taking care of you.
Chapter 8. Plan of action
Chapter 9. You Can Do It!
