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Interviewing children about a trauma runs the risk of cementing the tragedy in their minds. Every time someone asks a child (who is otherwise fine) to tell them how horrid it was, the child now remembers it as more horrid than it had been. Power of suggestion thing. "Are you having nightmares?" leads to the kid now having them.
It also depends how long they keep reminding them of it. For today, it's probably ok, and here it's probably better that our news cycle will be on to the next bloodbath, and lose interest in the kids and leave them to heal as well as they can.
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Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at.
-Lance Armstrong
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