Sesame Street site helps military kids cope with deployment, death

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Sesame Street site helps military kids cope with deployment, death

In a video now on the Web, Elmo the Sesame Street Muppet listens as his father happily sings about being deployed by the military and "going away for a while."

"Now it might seem forever,

And sometimes you might feel low.

But you wont have to be lonely,

With all the friends you know.''

This unusual video isn't a regular episode of the long-running PBS children's series.

It's on a new site designed to help thousands of children of military families cope with the very serious emotional issues around a parent being deployed into battle, coming back maimed or psychologically scarred or even being killed in action.

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"Elmo and his friends ... serve as conduits for dealing with the difficult issues in nurturing and sensitive ways,'' Patty Shinseki of the Military Child Education Coalition said in a press release. She is the wife of retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, current Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Obama.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=43841&tsp=1





http://www.sesamestreetfamilyconnections.org/grownups/

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