To think 6 is too young to watch 3 hours of the world trade center being bombed and collapsing?

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Ex DH played the live news coverage (god knows where he picked up a recording of this) of the planes bombing the wtc to DD aged 6. She now doesn't want to go away for Christmas.

Dimwit ex says it's important to know, but she's way too young right?

Yes its true that certain white groups have and continue to suffer violent oppression. It is also true that only a small proportion of privileged children know what it is like to live childhood in security, free from violent oppression or basic poverty.

YANBU - it’s fine for her to know in an age appropriate way but IMO that doesn’t include showing footage at 6!

Having said that, I’m taking my boys (Year 6 and 7, so 10/11) to NYC in October half term and I have every intention of taking them to the 9/11 memorial and museum. They know roughly what happened and why, but have not seen footage. It’s extremely distressing stuff even as an adult.

Huh? My skin is so pale it’s practically blue but I’m of an ethnicity that was subject to an attempt at genocide through starvation in the 19th century. I spent much of my childhood learning about it. My older relatives in my childhood had fought for our freedom, as was the case for everyone I knew.

I wrote a long post in reply to that sentence as well, then decided I couldn't be arsed, since the poster hadn't noticed that European Jews are white.

No matter who you are, or where you're from, the ideal is to have a secure childhood.

A happy safe confident childhood is very much a white privilege

what a lot of utter bollocks.

A privilege to live in countries like England, certainly - and that's not looking at the horrible living situations of the worst areas, but talking in general.

I find that kind of comments highly offensive frankly, so you look at my kids and think we don't provide them with a happy, safe and confident childhood? Seriously?!?

I would be questioning him exactly what it was your DD saw. Was it only the live news coverage, or did he show her anything else from those events? There is actually worse stuff available on YT from the 9/11 attack.

Rolling coverage is quite a new phenomenon. Being able to see a horror unfold in real time from a thousand different angles on a dedicated news channel whilst scrolling through the personal testimony of people witnessing the event online is something people in their 40s were never subjected to as children. In any case, having your nose up so close to trauma can be considered a real world experience.

In any case, I can't see how having your nose...

Do I think it is an important lesson in history yes.

Would I let my 6 year old watch it no.

Most people remember where they were the day it happened . Why because it was such a devastating incident . I find it hard to watch without been emotional.

I also can’t comprehend a 6 year old sitting still for 3 hours

He’s an idiot.

A happy safe confident childhood is very much a white privilege

Well thats an interesting opinion, how does it justify traumatising a child?

A happy safe confident childhood is very much a white privilege

Tell that to the adults who spent their childhoods in the former Yugoslavia.

I think a rule of thumb is that if it was a fictionalised TV show it would be shown after 9pm and if it was a film then there is no way it would get a U certificate.

6 is way too young. I struggle to cope with it at 43!!!

Many american children were traumatised by the coverage