About the Radio 4 Programme Broadcast Last Night about Appropriate, Careful, Sensitive, Rational, Logical, and Creative Communication Between Children

About the Radio 4 Programme Broadcast Last Night about Appropriate, Careful, Sensitive, Rational, Logical, and Creative Communication Between Children and Adults Regarding Bereavement and Knowledge of other very Realistic, Harsh, Life-events

When my five year-old niece Jasmine, came into the room some months ago, and asked me very euphemistically about the absence and loss of her granny (my mum), who committed suicide and died last year, I might have confused her a little bit with my communication, but overall I think I communicated with her in a very sane, logical, rational, careful, sensitive, and creative way.

I'm more or less against the very Liberal view of communication between children and adults, that communicates with and treats children all exactly like adults, because whilst in some ways that is a good and a healthy thing, because children are all equal human beings to and with adults, with more or less equal rights as human beings, they are still children, and this kind of very Liberal approach is quite frankly very inappropriate and embarrassing.

I therefore agree a bit more, with the more Conservative view and approach, of protecting children's innocent minds, and freely communicating with them, with respect, realisations, and regard that they still or just children, although as the other extreme, this can also be a bit embarrassing and patronising towards and with children at times, if used and taken too far.

Regarding the Radio 4 programme broadcast last night, that I mention here in the title of this article, the experts and professionals, all more or less agreed that children's innocent minds need to protected from the harsh realities of life-events, whilst they also said that often children already know about the realities of things like the death of a family relative, much more than we admit to or realise about them as adults, but that as children they don't let on or reveal about this to and with adults, because they are trying to protect the adults in the adults view and relatedness towards them as children, and which is how they more or less want to be related to, communicated with, and treated by and with adults.

However, there was also a consensus and agreement in this Radio 4 programme, that if children do choose to communicate, very directly and openly about what they can really know about things like bereavement and other harsh realities and life-events, as they sometimes do, then we mustn't deny this or ignore them about this, but we must openly and honestly communicate and support them about this emotionally and mentally.

Taking all of these things and matters into full realisation and full consideration, in a very sensitive, rational, logical, rational, creative, and multi-approached way, the conclusion and crux of the matter in this Radio 4 programme, is that we need to intellectually support children, and give them intellectual support, in whatever way they choose to communicate with us about things like bereavement and other harsh realities and life-events, and I think this is overall how I related towards and communicated with my five year-old niece Jasmine, with her euphemistic and metaphorical questions to me some months ago about the death and loss of her granny.