The adult may need to help the child depending on their age. So while you and your child discuss the movie, let’s take that step!įor this activity you will need a rectangular piece of cardboard that will be big enough to hold your puzzle’s picture but easy to cut, scissors, a black marker, and colored markers to draw all sorts of landmarks. Coming up with a plan together for how they can be comforted when they are so sad or angry that words (which are processed in the prefrontal cortex, the same area of the brain where emotional regulation is housed and is often underdeveloped in children with trauma) are hard you can work together as a team with the grief instead of having caregiver squared off against the child and their behaviors.Ĭaregiver Note: Chief Benja says in the start of the film that he believes that Tail, Talon, Spine, Fang, and Heart can be Kumandra again but that someone has to take the first step. If your child resists talking about this too much, it’s best to not force it and allow them to talk as in depth as they wish. Depending on the depth of your relationship and your child’s comfort level this question may be difficult for them to talk about. Now that we have connected with the characters’ emotions we can start to connect your child to their own feelings of grief and loss after the practice with Raya and her companions. How have you felt before when you were far away from someone you loved? What helps when you miss them the most?Ĭaregiver Note: This question brings the subject to your child’s sense of grief and loss.Your child may also pick up on other patterns that you didn’t notice, and if that is the case that is great! Your child is building social and emotional intelligence! Help your child connect how Raya keeps others at an emotional distance and struggles to express how she feels, how Boun has become self-sufficient and stays busy to not think about loss, how Little Noi has found a new “family” in her animal companions, and Tong remains isolated in his grief. It’s much easier to see someone else’s struggles more so than our own and children are no different. How do Raya, Boun, Little Noi, and Tong act differently after they have lost their loved ones? How are they acting alike?Ĭaregiver Note: This is a question that will continue to ease the conversation into talking about themselves.Your child may recognize that each of these characters have lost parents, siblings, and neighbors, but they may not connect that they each react to these losses and express grief differently. If children do not have secure attachments with bigger, stronger, kinder, wise caregivers they may miss out on emotional and cognitive growth opportunities, which may contribute to your child’s struggles to connect feelings to behaviors.
Children develop within the contexts of relationships as humans are social beings. Why are Raya, Boun, Little Noi, and Tong alone? What happened to their families and villages?Ĭaregiver Note: This is an introductory question to help start the discussion with your child about the subject of grief and loss.
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