When Talking To Kids About Hard Things, Choose Truth Over Comfort
Description
Talking about illness or other hard topics with kids can be daunting. So it's understandable that you might want to put it off. But information doesn’t scare kids. It’s the lack of information that feels scary to them. In this conversation, Dr. Becky sits down with a mom who is struggling with how to have a hard conversation with her kids.
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could you please talk more about death, like general death, like no illness or anyone having any illness. just a general death the question kids might ask and the right answer. I know theeling the truth, but what exactly?