James D. Morgan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) In a digital age, children have access to around-the-clock news coverage of frightened refugees, gunfire and talk of a nuclear attack. Many American parents are wondering how media coverage of the war in Ukraine may be impacting their children. "We tend to believe that children are not aware of what's happening, but in fact they are," said Dr. Stephenie Howard, a licensed clinical social worker and assistant professor at Norfolk State University. "They're always listening. They pick up on bits and pieces of information and they're left to put the pieces together by themselves, which can be worse," she added. Although the events in Ukraine are a continent away, children in the U.S. might experience vicarious trauma, which happens when people are impacted by someone else's adversity even if they do not directly experience it themselves. Children may also misinterpret public crises often in ways that are unex
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been dubbed the TikTok war by some, as videos of the violence have surfaced across that and other social media platforms favored by many of today’s youths. “It makes it more real for them, not just some distant event,” said Jaime Rininger, who teaches geography