Talking to kids about U.S. Capitol violence
January 7, 2021 11:17 PM Molly Ringberg
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – While teachers navigate how to help students understand the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, parents are trying to help their kids cope with it.
“We remember big events in our lives as adults when we think back. I remember where I was on 9/11. I remember where I was when the Challenger exploded… kids will remember where they were too,” said Jennifer Kleven M.D., MPH Pediatrician at Gundersen Health System. “So depending on how we as adults respond will help determine how they respond, and what pieces of those days they will remember beyond where they were and whether they felt safe at that time, whether they thought they could express themselves, and the fears and concerns they might have had.”
Las Vegas Weekly
Adriana Chavez and Heidi Rider’s “So, You Want to Buy a Monument”
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Last spring, Wendy Kveck taught an art class at UNLV called Finding America in Las Vegas. “I considered how the landscape and cultures of Southern Nevada have influenced artists’ work over the decades,” she wrote in a blog post for Nevada Humanities.
Teaching the course, which included field trips to the Neon Museum and Fremont Street, led her to ponder the meaning of a monument: “Is it an object, an artwork, a painting, a sculpture, a landscape, a billboard, a gesture, a poem, a podcast, an arts center, a community?” she wrote.