Learner Dad: I get the impulse to keep our kids in the dark about war in Ukraine

"We all watched the news at 6 o’clock when I was growing up in the 1970s because there wasn’t anything else to do. The car radio was left on during the news, so we heard about all sorts of atrocities, in Ireland and overseas"

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What do you say to kids about war? We haven’t said that much to ours about the invasion of Ukraine, because they have enough things to be thinking about without adding World War III.

You can see how Russian kids in Irish schools might be exposed at the moment. The air is thick with anti-Russian sentiment, and as much as you might tell your own kids that this is just aimed at Putin and his gang, it’s naive to think that some of this wouldn’t land on ordinary Russians.