Do we really need to protect so much?

Silence also communicates 🤫

Many times, we think that not talking about something is a way to protect 🛡️. But what I’m learning is that silence doesn’t always protect.

Children observe 👀. They notice changes 🔄. They overhear incomplete conversations 💬. And when they don’t receive explanations, they make them up 🤯. Sometimes those explanations are far scarier than reality 😨.

Talking about difficult topics doesn’t mean dumping all the information at once. It means:

listening 👂

adapting your language 🗣️

answering what they ask ❓ (not what we imagine 💭)

Communicating doesn’t mean dramatizing 🎭, but it also doesn’t mean hiding 🙈.