Parents aren't simply parents. They're teachers, lifeguards, peace officers, and even chefs to the adolescent they raise until their old enough to leave the house.
Now more than ever, parent have also been forced to play the role of news anchor; a child's beacon of information for growing violence and turmoil around the world. Those not old enough to remember 9/11 may look on last Friday's massacre in Paris with wonder. It's up to parent to make sense of it, even if many adults haven't come to grips with it themselves.
An interviewer with French television show Le Petit Journal showed the exact moment when one father taught his toddler son about terrorism, and how fighting it doesn't mean resorting to violence. When asked, the boy said "bad guys are not very nice" and that people might need to move away to be safe.
His father softly reminds him that France is their home before giving a heartwarming lesson in compassion.
"They might have guns, but we have flowers," the father says.
"But flowers don't do anything," says the boy.
"Of course they do. Look, everyone is putting flowers," the father says, gesturing toward memorials on the streets.
"It's to protect?"
"Exactly."
"And the candles too?"
"It's to remember the people who are gone yesterday."
Watch the full video below.
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