Rania Awaad – Age-Appropriate Conversations- Navigating Difficult Topics with Children

Rania Awaad
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The conversation is about a person who spoke about children in a way that is important to the person in front of them. The conversation is about how children in different groups are affected by age-appropriate events, such as injuries or deaths, and how they engage with the host in real time. The host is trying to break down the topic to make it more manageable and manageable for everyone.
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And another thing that I wanted to share

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about him is he spoke, when we talk

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about children, to their level.

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And I think that's really important today.

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And part of the conversation we're going to

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have a little bit with our therapist as

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well is, you know, he was very keen

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on making sure that the person in front

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of him understood what he was saying and

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that they were not overburdened unnecessarily.

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And this becomes really important about kind of

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age-appropriate milestones.

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Here at the Rahma Foundation, those of you

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have girls in our halakas here, you'll know

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that one of the things that we really

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like pride ourselves on, inshallah to Allah, I

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hope it's accurate and true, is that, and

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we've been doing this for years, is that

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the content that we teach in the different

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groups that you have your girls in, right,

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the frogs and bunnies and the rainbows and

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the busy bees and the rosebuds, right, that

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they're age-appropriate content.

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That we're not talking to frogs and bunnies

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about very difficult things to understand.

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In fact, we're trying to break it down

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to their toddler level, right, the four and

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five and six-year-olds.

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And when we get all the way to

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your busy bees, your middle schoolers, now we

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start to get into kind of like some

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conversation indefinitely by the high school, right, we're

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starting to get into heavy, heavy conversations.

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But it's age-appropriate because what we find

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is that there are, just like there are

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physical milestones, right, whenever there is a really

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horrific tragedy that's unfolding, in this case it's

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still unfolding in front of us, it's very

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likely that at some point the young people

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around you are going to ask about this

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if they haven't already.

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And when they do, there's a decision to

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be made about what to say and when

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and to who.

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But it starts with us and how much

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we engage with our children and what's happening

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with us in real time.

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