Those of you who follow the Euro 20/21 championships may know about the Danish player who had a heart attack during a game and who needed cpr - live on TV.
Fortunately he survived.
However, a
very large segment of Danish children under the age of 15 watched that game and saw a star-player drop, get CPR and for a long time didn't know whether he would make it or not.
I will assume that included M&F's children as well. Perhaps not all of them, but certainly some of them.
The vast majority of children would have watched the incident with their parents or other adults around. But as we know M&F were at the stadium, rather than with their children.
Perhaps Christian was around, perhaps a nanny, perhaps another adult, or perhaps they were with friends, we don't know yet. - But of course children watching this will have loads of questions and thoughts. After all this was not a movie, or someone they didn't know, but a named "hero" so to speak.
So parents have had to answer the obvious questions from their children - Like: Can this happen to dad or an older sibling playing soccer?
The public network DR1, also has a public service channel for children. Roughly between 7-14 or so in age-range.
It's quite serious actually, with children as the reporters and news-anchors, asking and addressing the questions children have in regards to various topics and current affairs, which may include politics. - Of course with adults in the background helping with the practical details, but otherwise the angle is from that of children, which as we know can differ very much from how adults perceive things and from what concerns adults. So this channel explains things, so it makes more sense for say a 9 year old.
We know that Mary has visited this channel and been interviewed by this channel - and as the channel and it's programmes are being used at schools, M&F's children are also familiar with the channel and may even watch it on their own.
This channel will in the upcoming porgrammes deal with what happened. What is a heart attack, what goes on, what's the risk, what can be done, what should you do and can mom and dad have a heart attack?
That means talking to doctors, players other children and so on.
And what is also sweet, and no doubt a good coping mechanism, send well-wishes to the player, Christian Eriksen.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/u...sen-episoden-jeg-er-megaglad-hoere-du-er-okay
This very much being an alternative to the children themselves googling the questions - because some of the comments out there are
not for children! (See the trolls at Daily Mail!)
The channel is called Ultra.
Some of you may recall a programme that got international attention.
It consisted of naked adults of all shapes and sizes in a studio in front of children aged 7-14 or so, who looked at the adults and asked various questions that went through their minds in regards to how a body looks and why it looks like that - say: what's that scar? Why do your breasts have different size? And so on.
It's on that matter of fact level.
It is IMO very likely that certainly Vincent and Josephine will watch Ultra.
The 5:23 minute video of Mary riding in the equestrian competition was a thing of beauty. I didn't read through to find out her score but... well done Princess Mary!!
But so young, sweet and nervous that you only can love them.
