Hi, you are “face to face with Shell”.
I hope you have enjoyed/gained help from this series “Children’s Questions to a Burn Survivor”.
Please click on the link below to view the “conclusion” and please read on:
I think it is important to allow kids to ask questions. It’s important, I think, to teach kids that there are all sorts of different people in this world and we actually all look different, and everyone should be included.
Remember do not scare children, do not “over share”. Only give the details that are needed.
Children can have the ability to turn a sad/tragic/painful situation around.
I found that they will just come out with questions:
What happened to you?
Why is your hand like that?
Why don’t you have nails on that hand?
Why does your skin feel like that?
You will maybe find that some kids will never ask, as they just see YOU!
Once you have told kids, more often than not, they will go away and not think about it again, unless of course, there is another situation where they want to know more.
Not really just specific to “children’s questions”; Changing Faces has a lot of information about what to do when asked awkward questions about your scars.
Please click on the link below to visit the Changing Faces site:
https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/about-visible-difference/
These are just my opinions and it is how I deal with things. If you need further help, please head over to my page on “Survivor Help Forums”:
Please click on the links below to view the whole series on “children’s questions”:
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (INTRO)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 1)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 2)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 3)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 4)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 5)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 6)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 7)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 8)
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS TO A BURN SURVIVOR (PART 9)