How To Talk To Young People About The Ukraine Crisis

Leigh Fatzinger
4 min readMar 18, 2022

It’s Spring Break week for part of the country, and our family of four traveled to Washington, D.C. for museums, sightseeing, and for me…the privilege of some in-person meetings to break up Zoom fatigue.

I often tell people that my two sons (ages 9 and 13) must think they have the most unfair father on the planet. Or, that they were born the most unlucky digital natives since the coining of the term. While my wife and I have assigned them iPhones (this is important — they are our phones, not theirs), they are tightly controlled via parental…

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Leigh Fatzinger

Just a guy with a wife, two sons and a dog who likes to tell stories.