Rania Awaad – Age-Appropriate Conversations- Navigating Difficult Topics with Children
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And another thing that I wanted to share
about him is he spoke, when we talk
about children, to their level.
And I think that's really important today.
And part of the conversation we're going to
have a little bit with our therapist as
well is, you know, he was very keen
on making sure that the person in front
of him understood what he was saying and
that they were not overburdened unnecessarily.
And this becomes really important about kind of
age-appropriate milestones.
Here at the Rahma Foundation, those of you
have girls in our halakas here, you'll know
that one of the things that we really
like pride ourselves on, inshallah to Allah, I
hope it's accurate and true, is that, and
we've been doing this for years, is that
the content that we teach in the different
groups that you have your girls in, right,
the frogs and bunnies and the rainbows and
the busy bees and the rosebuds, right, that
they're age-appropriate content.
That we're not talking to frogs and bunnies
about very difficult things to understand.
In fact, we're trying to break it down
to their toddler level, right, the four and
five and six-year-olds.
And when we get all the way to
your busy bees, your middle schoolers, now we
start to get into kind of like some
conversation indefinitely by the high school, right, we're
starting to get into heavy, heavy conversations.
But it's age-appropriate because what we find
is that there are, just like there are
physical milestones, right, whenever there is a really
horrific tragedy that's unfolding, in this case it's
still unfolding in front of us, it's very
likely that at some point the young people
around you are going to ask about this
if they haven't already.
And when they do, there's a decision to
be made about what to say and when
and to who.
But it starts with us and how much
we engage with our children and what's happening
with us in real time.