Keeping it Together: Stop lying to your children about death

Your goldfish swam into the ocean. Grandpa went on a long trip. We took the dog to the farm.

Hi, my name is David Oliver, one of Paste BN's wellness reporters. Euphemisms for death abound, and it's easier to lie to kids and skip an uncomfortable, unsettling conversation. But those euphemisms might actually do more damage.

"All of those euphemisms backfire horribly, and really erode trust," says David Kessler, grief expert and founder of Grief.com, who has talked to people who have trouble sleeping their whole lives because as kids they were told grandma went to sleep and never woke up. "And the advice I always give is age-appropriate truth."

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