DD is 8. Last week, her gym teacher was arrested for distributing child pornography. He was caught with over 30,000 images. I chose not to give DD any detail and just said he wasn't going to be teaching her anymore and if she ever saw him again, she was not to go anywhere near him. When she asked why, I said it was because he was a very bad man and that hopefully we would never see him again.
Unfortunately some of the kids in the gym class know a bit more and today she's informed me that he's in jail and keeps asking what he did. I have so far avoided answering because I wanted to think carefully about what to tell her. She has been taught about inappropriate touching in school, but if I go down this route I feel it will only lead to more questions. 8 is too young for any of this, isn't it?
What would you do?
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Difficult conversation with 8yr old dd
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Tiny753 · 02/06/2016 01:49
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