Last night my daughter, who just turned 5, saw a sign that said something about the war while we were driving home, so she asked me "What is war?". I never lie to my kids and I try to never evade a question when they are really looking for information, but that was a really hard question. During the conversation that followed she asked a LOT of really hard questions. She had a very hard time believing that large groups of people try to kill each other in real life, she thought that it had to be pretend. It really broke my heart. She wanted to know if kids die in wars too, she couldn't understand why kids should die when grown ups wanted to kill each other.
How would you explain to a child what a war is?
How would you explain to a child what a war is?
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