MOMS & DADS TALK: Osama bin Laden

Moms & Dads Talk

With people openly joyful over the death of Osama bin Laden, it raises an interesting question about the way parents explain this situation to their children.

Michel Martin of the National Public Radio program Tell Me More on Tuesday discussed the subject in her story Spelling Out Bin Laden's Death To The Little Ones.

Richard Rende, an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University in Providence, RI, also provided an interesting perspective on the subject in his guest blog How to Talk to Kids About Osama bin Laden on Parents.com.

The Moms & Dads Talk Question of this week is twofold.

First, how will you help children understand why the world is joyful over the death of a man?

Does the world’s reaction convey the message that sometimes it is OK to kill?