How NOT to Explain to a Child Why a Father Would Kill His Family

Sharing Scary News

SG Buckley
2 min readFeb 7

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Photo by Rhodi Lopez on Unsplash

We awoke yesterday to horrible news. The headmistress of a nearby boarding school, her husband, and their 7-year-old daughter, were found dead in a house on the school’s grounds.

I wanted to explain the tragedy to my daughter before she heard it at school. But what would I say?

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SG Buckley

Writer, editor, parent. Former staffer at Quartz, WSJ and Inc. magazine.