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1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Julie Dobrow, Tufts University

   You can’t shield kids from scary news – here’s what ‘Sesame Street’ and other children’s shows did after 9/11 (opens the original)

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   (MEDFORD, MA) On back-to-school night in 2005, I eagerly entered my youngest child’s first grade classroom. The walls were festooned with brightly colored responses to the prompt: “Draw something you remember.” I scanned for my son’s picture and was shocked when I encountered his drawing: an airplane flying into New York’s World Trade Center. “I saw the picture you drew up on the bulletin board,” I said to him later that night. “Do you really remember seeing planes flying into th

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