I am passionate about bringing my children to museums ...You get to pretend to be a naturalist ,an archeologist, an astronaut... or maybe a scientist or an artist! Learning has never been more fun!

But should you bring your children to a museum about the darkest period in modern history ?

The recommended age for visiting the Holocaust Museum is 10 and up (and even that is up to your good discretion) I decided to bring my boys ages 11 and 9...

Our friends and neighbors here have already personalized this horrific event for us . I figured visiting the museum would give an entirely different perspective,and it did ...we all learned alot

But as I write this ...I wonder if this was the best decision ? Mason (the younger one) didn't look at the exibits very close , he didn't seem very interested . He walked through the crowded museum quietly and respectfully. Caden on the other hand ... looked too close, reading everything ,the stories the documentaries,the grafic pictures, everything... and seemed to be very affected by what he saw. He came out of the museum in such disbelief - I didn't have many answers for him.

It was now time for ice cream therapy...