MOMENT | Got to tell your children some hard news? Here's how - with Dr. Anne Lane

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Clinical psychologist Dr. Anne Lane joins us to discuss how we speak to our kids about difficult topics. She explains why secrecy and half-truths can be damaging and why it can help to have multiple brief conversations to help our children process the news gradually. For more powerful insights from Dr. Anne Lane listen to the full episode here: How to raise emotionally healthy children Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind This show is sponsored by Usborne books. If you want to add a little extra joy to storytime, 'Don’t Tickle' touchy-feely sound books are available now from all good booksellers. This show is sponsored by Yeo Valley. Find Your Daily Groove: visit the Yeo Valley website to find out more. Yeo Got This! This show is sponsored by FreePrints. Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk. Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.4	It's so true in my experience that one of the most damaging things in my personal experience is sort of secrecy and half told truths and I couldn't put a story and I couldn't figure stuff out.
1:21.3	But what I wanted to ask you was age appropriateness because whenever I talk about this, I get lots of questions about, well, do I tell the real reason
1:30.4	why I'm getting divorced, which is that my partner cheated?
1:33.0	Or do I really say the real reason we're moving house is because we can't afford this rent
1:37.4	anymore?
1:37.8	Or do I just jazz hand it up and say, we're moving and it's going to be great?
1:41.3	And I really have no idea. So I'm fascinated to hear.
1:44.7	How does someone get that congruence as you've talked about and that truth? And we've talked
1:49.9	about children, no. And that was my experience. I knew energetically what was up, but it wasn't said.
1:55.9	So how do we navigate that? It's really important to co-developed story with a child so around divorce,
2:04.1	around financial difficulties, around parents' mental health, all of these things children
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