There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.
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If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
We often fight wars with our young.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Sending our youth to war is wrong.
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