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How to help children understand forced migration without traumatizing them

My son asks why we had to leave our country and I do not know how to explain war and persecution to a six-year-old.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The challenge of preserving childhood innocence while processing collective trauma and loss.

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“Where Are You with Immigration and identity?”

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