I agree.
My daughter is not over-sensitive that way, but we haven't really sheltered her from much. Part of that is because it was necessary (in our opinion) for her to NOT be sheltered from her (occasionally unpleasant/harsh) reality in a personal sense, and partly because it was frankly impossible in a child that reads young.
I mean, when they can read Newsweek and Time at the checkstand, the cat is out of the bag.
This prepared my daughter to have the emotional foundation to understand some of the most difficult topics taught in middle and high school. After all, genocide is a lesson in pretty much every history class. How else to place Anne Frank in context?
I'm of the belief that feeling horrible when one reads those things is normal. Translating that feeling into a resolve to make the world a BETTER place is no bad thing, I think.
