Beanie Feldstein

I'm the lucky one.

But, you know, it's a full on like true summer camp experience.

My girls were in sixth grade and seventh grade the past two summers that I've done it.

And, you know, 11 and 12 year old girls.

And.

To answer your question, the biggest thing, I was actually just talking to our clinical director this morning.

The biggest thing that she instills in us as volunteers, and hopefully in order to trickle down to the kids, is using clear and specific language.

So specifically for kids, and I'm not a clinician, I'm not a therapist, but this is what I've learned.

Kids developmentally, depending on how old they are, they...

They don't understand euphemism.

They don't understand abstract thoughts.

Everything is quite concrete.

And so when you say things like crossed over or no longer with us, that doesn't mean anything to them.

That's quite confusing.

And so they really instill in us to say died, to say death, to say words and use language that is very clear.

And for a lot of people, they bristle.

Especially Jew or is it Jew?

It's so not the way and it's even hard for me and even I practice it in this conversation of like when my brother died and that's it's very hard to say but the kids have taught me it's such a

you know, through learning how to care for them, that, that language is, is actually quite helpful because they don't, they don't like or understand or a mixture of both and neither do we really as an adult.

Like,