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Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

My seven-year-old niece is visiting this week, and this morning, while were were munching our cereal, I flipped on Morning Edition. After a few seconds, I lunged for the dial — it was a report about the mass shootings Monday at Virginia Tech. It turned out my sister had already told her about the "sick man" who had killed so many people, but it made me wonder, how do you talk to kids about this kind of event, especially when it happens in their world, at school? We'll talk to Amy Dickinson about it today (it is Thursday), as well as a child psychiatrist... so if you have questions about how to talk about this horrifying event with kids of any age, post them here.