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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Aliza and today is a special episode. I am talking with

my friend Jennifer Garner. We decided that we wanted to have a conversation about the Holocaust

and talking about atrocities like the Holocaust with children in the developmentally

appropriate way and you can translate the information depending on your child's age and temperament

from younger to older. I say temperament which I didn't get into in this episode but sometimes

your child is age-appropriate for conversation but they are not ready for it and only you can know

what your child can handle. Not to say that you should never have difficult conversations with

kids who are really sensitive and empathetic but you just might want to think about that before

you engage in really difficult conversations to make sure that you have space and time

for their response and then we talked about an unusual spin on our conversations which is

my grandparents experience as Holocaust survivors and the reason that we did that is because

today is Yamhashoa which is the day that we honor the six million Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust.

There's a lot to say about that. I put in the show notes web links for books and information

but today we didn't go too far into the details of Yamhashoa but enough so that you know

telling these stories and honoring the past and learning from the past is not as off-topic as it

seems for raising good humans. It's what we need to do and so the first part of this is really about

getting through these conversations with children and why we're having these conversations and what

ages to have them and some supporting materials and the second part is really just a personal

conversation that we decided to have in front of everybody else to share my family's history

and it's so meaningful to me to be able to have a space where I can share this story. My

grandfather can hear this. He's still alive so it really is even more meaningful

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