“Now, from the same guys that brought you the Katrina rescue effort," said Jimmy Orr in The Christian Science Monitor, "comes the 9/11 coloring book. Joking? Sadly, no." The Federal Emergency Management Agency just decided to pull the book—called A Scary Thing Happened—off its website, but it was placed there in 2003, on Michael Brown's watch. Once again, heckuva job, Brownie.
Counselors often ask children to draw and color as a way to work through their feelings after a traumatic event, said Emily Friedman in ABC News. It's called art therapy. But some therapists warn that it's best to let the kids pick the images—because thrusting a graphic image of traumatic events "like the 9/11 attacks could spark anxiety in adults, let alone in young children."
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