Learn to give bad news to your children

• April 25, 2024

Communicate bad news It is always a difficult process. The situation is complicated if the person to be told is a child, whose capacity to understand and assume what happened is much smaller and the impact of the news can have a negative effect on their development. But the reality is that negative experiences are part of life, and adults are responsible for helping the little ones to understand them.

A frequent error when giving bad news , is to hide the real situation of what is happening, with the conviction that children will not notice. However, they are great observers who perceive everything that surrounds them and demonstrate great sensitivity to those issues that adults want to hide.

Discover in the following video how to give bad news to a son, Rocío Arocha tells you how to do it:

It is also important to pay attention to the child's reaction, in this way you will be able to adapt to their desire to talk or not about the subject, their emotions, curiosity, concerns, fears , beliefs, etc. In other words, it is the child himself that marks the rhythm and direction of the conversation, indicating to what extent he is prepared to speak.

The information has to be clear, repeat it coherently as many times as necessary, and avoid explanations being worse in each repetition. That is, the most threatening information must already be part of the first explanation. However, in very complex or severe situations it may be more convenient to dose, in such a way that new information is added only when the child has assimilated the previous one.

Going through difficult situations and facing them makes you grow as a person. In you is to create that capacity of understanding in your children so that they can face them in the best way. Develop in them positive thoughts that strengthen their emotional health .  

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