Radio news too graphic when children can hear

While I would never gratuitously inflict gory details of a terrible event like this on a child. I would not shield a child from the hearing the basic details of this dreadful event on the news.

In the early 1950s when I was about 9 we lived in Singapore. The local paper ran a whole series of graphic articles about the horrors of the Japanese occupation and what happened in the POW camps. My parents went to great lengths to keep these articles from me, I was an avid newspaper reader, but I read them nevertheless.
The stories were horrific but they helped me to understand more of what was going on around me. Why local people hated the Japanese so, why someone's behaviour would be explained among adults as,'he was prisoner at Changi'. At much the same time I read many of the books published then on the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. Again references to these were part of public discourse and it helped my understanding of the world around me. I didn't glory in what I read. I found it truly horrific, but it didn't give me nightmares.

We are very lucky that we can protect our children if we want to. Pity the more children in Syria and the middle east whose parents would give anything to spare them the experience of seeing and suffering the things we protect our children from knowing about.

My DGS was upset by an item of news he'd heard on the radio. He was probably 7 or 8. The nurse came in to weigh and measure all the children in his class, DGS went into complete meltdown and refused to go. After much sobbing we finally discovered that he had heard on the radio that obese children were being taken into care and away from their abusive parents. He really thought his time had come! Poor kid was inconsolable. They absorb much more information than we ever realise. He wasn't in any way obese, maybe slightly chunky, in a lovely cuddly little boy way.

I agree Mishap

Oh God! I do not want my grandsons to hear of this. But I know they will.

Couldn't agree more mishap