“Are you still feeling sad?”
It never ceases to amaze me how kids are far more comfortable with topics that we as adults often find “off limits” or taboo to bring up openly. My 3-year-old has continually been processing her experience of my father’s death out loud with us. She will regularly — and matter-of-factly — state, “Baca died.” (Baca is the name my son came up with for my dad when he was a baby.) Sometimes my daughter asks me “When will I die?”…