How to Talk to Your Kids About Mass Shootings (Originally aired: Nov. 7, 2017)

Guest: Brooks Keeshin, MD, Clinician Researcher, Division of Child Protection and Family Health, University of Utah, Child Psychiatrist at the Center for Safe and Health Families at Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City On Tuesday, two 15-year-olds were killed, allegedly by another 15-year-old, in a school shooting in Kentucky. Over a dozen more students were wounded. It’s a scene that’s becoming almost routine in America. As parents, how do we explain these acts of violence to our children when they are becoming more common? How young is too young for a conversation about an event as unpredictable and terrifying as a mass shooting?