CelticAngel, I understand. One night my husband was flipping through channels on cable and came upon a program dealing with the way terrorists were hiding in Afghanistan/Pakistan. After watching it for five or ten minutes, he realized our five-year old had come into the room when he started asking 10,000 questions...and he became very agitated. About a week later, I had one scared little boy at bedtime, worried that there was going to be a war in Iowa or in Kentucky, where his grandparents are, and wondering why we have to have soldiers. He was concerned that his daddy or even me would have to be a soldier, and he was obviously very scared. You're correct...it's a very difficult subject to try to explain, and while I read reports on the violence found in cartoons today, Cartoon Network and the like provide an escape to shield my little ones from the very real, very scary, and very violent world we happen to live in. I think whatever your feelings are on the very probable war we are about to enter, it is pretty obvious to see that now, perhaps more than any other time in history, we are so "connected" to the world around us. It is wonderful to have that instant access to so many things, but it also makes it a job to shield our precious ones from growing up too fast.

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