With the 10th anniversary of 9-11 quickly approaching, I have been thinking about how I would tell Jake about that horrible day when he is old enough to understand.

That day changed every facet of our lives, but Jake and other children who were yet to be born or too young to remember won't know a life before 9-11 when family members could walk us to airline departure gates and say goodbyes there; when there was no such thing as homeland security; and the twin towers dotted New York's skyline.

I don't want Jake to view 9-11 as just a history lesson though I'm sure my generation saw Pearl Harbor, the assassination of president Kennedy and the Vietnam War as just that.

If you have older kids, how have you broached this subject? What would you like to tell you kids?
What have you told them already?

The National Association of School Psychologists has developed tips for parents, educators and others to help children deal with the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.