Should You Tell Your Kid You Were Canned?

So you figured that it would happen at one point in your life and it finally did.  You’ve been fired.  Pink-slipped.  Handed your walking papers.  Now what on earth do you tell the kids?

My initial gut would have been to sugarcoat it…spin a fairy tale worthy of Walt Disney himself.  But then I read a piece in the Huffington Post by Mika Brzezinski’s, co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.   A few years before landing the cable gig,  Brzezinski was a hot shot at CBS News:  anchor of the weekend newscast and correspondent for 60 Minutes Wednesday.  A network shakeup sent her to the unemployment line, clutching a severance package and a bruised ego.

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