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Watching Tiger Cruise with your children can be a great opportunity to share your own hopes, fears, or opinions about world events. If you need help talking about these issues, you may want to consult a local resource. Consider talking about these issues with your spouse, a friend, your neighbors, your church or synagogue -- wherever you feel most comfortable.
If you choose to view the movie with your family, we have a few suggestions about questions you can ask your child if you want to get a discussion started, as well as questions your child might ask of you. Asking questions that relate directly to the story of the film is a good way to begin. Here are some questions you could ask:
- What did you think about kids getting to go on the Tiger Cruise? Would you want to go on an aircraft carrier?
- What did you think about Maddie asking her father to give up his naval career?
- What do you think about military families? What's the hardest part of military life?
- How did you feel when Commander Dolan told the Tigers about the events that had happened in New York?
- How did you feel when Maddie's father told her that he was going to stay on the ship?
- What was the most memorable part of the movie?
Regardless of whether you have chosen to start a discussion or not, you may want to be ready for questions your child might ask. You might want to think about how you would answer these kinds of questions in advance. Your answers may be different based on your own point of view and the age and experience of your child. Here are a few questions that your child could ask:
- What exactly happened on September 11, 2001? What is going on in the world right now because of those events?
- Why did the events of September 11th take place?
- How safe are we? Younger children might be curious about their own safety as well as their parents' safety while older children may have additional concerns about the safety of their town and/or country.
- How have the events of September 11th affected us (other than safety concerns)?
- Are we in this alone? This is a question that your child may not be able to articulate but may be in his or her thoughts. You could bring this up with your child to discuss how this affects all of us collectively; that all of society is dealing with these same issues.
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