Talking about death with students

Hello teachers of Reddit,

First of all I'd like to say I'm not a teacher, but an Illustrator. I'm working with a colleague on a concept for a learning game, in which we explore multiple ways parents talk about death with their children. In our research, we noticed a lot of people preferred telling the truth, but there's also a lot of people who tell their children lies to cover up a death of a pet or in the family. Especially with young children.

Examples include: "Grandpa is just sleeping." "The bunny went to live with his friends." and "The cat opened a campingsite far away."

We get death is a tricky subject, especially with young children. But me and my colleague both stand by trying to explain the truth as well, although we both do not have children.

I was wondering what you guys think as teachers and if you ever had to explain to one of your students about death. I'm especially interested if it concerns young children, because from a certain age (12 or so?) they always seem to know about it.

Thanks in advance for any replies and have a great day teaching!

Submitted October 22, 2019 at 05:19AM by ThaneWill https://ift.tt/2MyWyvI