Be Honest And Concrete: Tips For Talking To Kids About Death

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Whether it's a family pet or a loved one, every child will experience a death at some point — and their parents will likely struggle to explain it. This episode, we revisit the Mr. Hooper episode of Sesame Street, which provides a master class in talking about death and grief with young children.

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0:00.0	Before we start today's episode, here's your random tip.
0:04.6	This one's from NPR's Taylor Haney.
0:07.1	When you're cutting into warm brownies, you should use a plastic knife.
0:10.8	A metal knife sticks to the brownie and makes crumbs and ruins your corners.
0:16.3	But a plastic knife, I don't know why, it's non-stick.
0:20.1	So you get perfect, fudgy, smooth lines.
0:23.6	If you've got a good tip, leave us a voice mail at 202-216-9823 or email us at lifekit.npr.org.
0:37.4	Hey, Corey.
0:38.4	How's it going, Anya?
0:39.4	I'm doing all right.
0:41.0	You know, we had a death in the family recently.
0:43.4	Yeah, I heard.
0:44.4	I'm really sorry about that.
0:46.4	It was your husband's aunt.
0:48.3	That's right, Aunt Nancy.
0:50.0	And you know, Adam and I have been together for a while, so I was really lucky to have her
0:53.1	in my family for 20 years.
0:55.0	And she was really a special person, Corey.
0:56.8	She was a teacher, an editor, a writer, and above all a dancer.
1:01.1	And one thing I'm really grateful for is that in the last couple of years, and she was
1:04.9	diagnosed with cancer, she made a really big effort to connect with my girls.
1:08.8	Oh, I'm so glad for that.
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