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War books

From: Judy Nelson <jnelson>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:07:20 -0800

The Pierce County Library System has posted a page for parents and care givers to help deal with the stress of disaster/war. We have a very large military population here and have posted materials specifically for military families
  http://www.pcl.lib.wa.us/ChildCope/TheThreatofWar.htm
  
  perhaps this too can be of help to some of your patrons,
  Judy T Nelson Youth Services Coordinator Pierce County Library System

 Message----From: Cammie Backus [mailto:cbackus at rif.org] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:33 AM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] War books



I got this email forwarded to me this morning; it seems appropriate in light of the recent discussion about war books.

Cammie
 Message----- From: FINE [ mailto:fine at gse.harvard.edu ] Subject: From FINE: Resources on How to Talk to Children About War and Peace


Dear FINE Member,

We would like to share with you some web resources designed to support communication with children about war and peace.

Educators for Social Responsibility provides guides and curricular suggestions to help teachers address national and global issues:

http://www.esrnational.org/sp/we/world.htm
   

The United Nations offers a curriculum on peace education:

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp
   

The NYU Child Study Center tackles tough questions about how to talk to children about the war with Iraq:

http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/war_iraq.html
   

National Association of School Psychologists offers advice on helping children cope with fears of war and terrorism:

http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/unsettlingtimes.html
   

Sincerely,

The FINE Team

============================ FINE (Family Involvement Network of Educators) Harvard Family Research Project Harvard Graduate School of Education 3 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617I5?08 Fax: 617I5?94 Email: fine at gse.harvard.edu http://www.finenetwork.org
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