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The world is a harder place than what is shown by most kid TV shows. How do parents help their kids engage with suffering in ways appropriate for their ages?
Your seven year old peeks over your shoulder while you're watching the 6 'clock news and asks, "Why does that TV guy keep talking about Dar-fur? What is that?" Or, she points to the latest mailing on your desk from a relief agency with a picture of a starving child, "Momma, why is that kid so thin?"
It seems like those moments would be a natural opportunity to help your child understand about the suffering that is present in the world. To shoo those questions away would be to lose an opportunity to help a child see that not everyone in the world enjoys the privileges he or she does.
Yet helping kids learn about issues like famine or genocide is no easy task. Most children's TV don't address these issues and parents are left to fend for themselves.
It would be great to receive some regular help, especially help that involves a robust engagement between parent and child that goes beyond a short lecture.
Giving that kind of help to you is a key part of the SixSeeds mission. The effort is led by Jenny Kim, our Child Education Specialist, who developed children's material for Walden Media (the producers of the Chronicles of Narnia movie series). As you tour our site, you'll see attached lessons on topics like AIDS orphans, rebuilding New Orleans, Darfur, and more.
If there's one that catches your child's attention, the two of you can then together dig deeper by going through specially created curriculum. And as you learn, you can also have the option of joining SixSeeds and support other families who serve or give to work in that part of the world.
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