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'Dark Knight' shooting: how to talk to kids

A father talking to his son by the

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Parents should reassure children that the massacre at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in a suburban Colorado movie theater was a rare and random event, and that the adults in their lives always do everything in their power to protect them, child experts say.

Once again — as with the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, at Virginia Tech in 2007 and at a Tucson shopping...

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