What to Do When the News Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Understanding Current Events

This latest installment in the bestselling What To Do series tackles children's feelings of anxiety around current events and what is portrayed in the news. The scary news is an inevitable part of life. This book can support and guide efforts to help scary news seem a bit more manageable for young people.

 

Whether from television news reports, the car radio, digital media, or adult discussions, children are often bombarded with information about the world around them. When the events being described include violence, extreme weather events, a disease outbreak, or discussions of more dispersed threats such as climate change, children may become frightened and overwhelmed. Parents and caregivers can be prepared to help them understand and process the messages around them by using this book.
What to Do When the News Scares You provides a way to help children put scary events into perspective. And, if children start to worry or become anxious about things they've heard, there are ideas to help them calm down and cope. This book also helps children identify reporters' efforts to add excitement to the story which may also make threats seem more imminent, universal, and extreme.

 

Read and complete the activities in What to Do When the News Scares You with your child to help them to understand the news in context--who, what, where, when, how--as a means of introducing a sense of perspective.

 

Chapters include:
Extensive note to parents and caregivers
Chapter 1. Sometimes scary things happen.
Chapter 2. What is news?
Chapter 3. Things that make the news scarier
Chapter 4. Did you see that?
Chapter 5. Keeping it real
Chapter 6. Un-news
Chapter 7. Taking care of you.
Chapter 8. Plan of action
Chapter 9. You Can Do It!

 

Check out all of the books in the bestselling What to Do Series:
When You Feel Too Shy: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Social Anxiety
When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid's Guide to Accepting Imperfection
When It's Not Fair: A Kid's Guide to Handling Envy and Jealousy
When Fear Interferes: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Phobias
When the News Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Understanding Current Events
When You Don't Want To Be Apart: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Separation Anxiety
When Bad Habits Take Hold: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Nail Biting And More
When You Dread Your Bed: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Problems With Sleep
When Your Temper Flares: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Problems With Anger
When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming OCD
When You Grumble Too Much: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Negativity
When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide To Overcoming Anxiety
Noticias te Asustan: Guía para Niños para Entender las Noticias Actuales / What to Do When the News Scares You (Spanish Edition)
Te Preocupas Demasiado: Guía Para Niños Para Superar La Ansiedad /What to Do When You Worry Too Much (Spanish Edition)

 

Author: Jacqueline B. Toner
Publisher: Magination Press
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.30w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781433836978

About the Author
Jacqueline B. Toner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with over 30 years in private practice working with children and parents. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and serves as Chief Facilitator for a medical resources project with Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Toner has co-authored books with Claire A. B. Freeland, Ph.D., including the What to Do Series for Kids as well as Depression: A Teen's Guide to Survive and Thrive and Yes I Can: A Girl and Her Wheelchair. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. 

 

Janet McDonnell is a writer and illustrator whose characters populate many books and magazines for children. She has both taught and written for children from preschool to high school. She lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois.