Carla Kaufman Sloan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it wasn't just me.
Because when a child dies, especially, it's like an atomic bomb.
It, like, affects everything.
Not just everyone in your family.
It affects the whole community, the kids in his class, friends from afar.
Like, there was one kid in his class who just couldn't go to school anymore.
He just couldn't.
They're little seven-year-olds.
He couldn't understand what had happened.
And so he just started to go in on himself.
I didn't know that at the time, but one of my closest friends called me and told me the story, and she said he went to school today because last night he had a dream.
The Calder came over, and they were playing on the trampoline like they played every day.
And Calder said, it's okay.
I'm good.
Like, look, we're still playing.
So it's like they're working overtime to make sure everyone's okay because they don't want –
their death to cause problems.
Yeah, so it is.
It's about, like, how deep the grief can go and how you are still meant to live a full life.