How to talk to our kids about traumatic events CNN 3 hrs ago By Jesscia DuLong, CNN © Courtesy Sarah Lyon Jessica DuLong, now chief engineer, emerita, is shown in 2008 in the engine room of the 1931 New York City fireboat John J. Harvey. Isaac Rothbart's twins had always known their daddy doesn't like fireworks. But he'd never told his kids why. Then, while celebrating their fifth birthday at Disney World, the family wound up close to an unexpected pyrotechnics show. Rothbart "didn't react well." His wife noticed him shutting down and ushered the whole family indoors....