HARD CONVERSATIONS · NOBODY TEACHES THESE
The conversations nobody teaches.
Telling a child someone died. Asking your father about his wishes. Explaining why Grandma forgets. These conversations arrive without warning and without training — so we wrote the training. All of it free, no account, written against published clinical guidance.
How to tell your kids
guidesTen guides for the hardest tellings — a death in the family, a terminal diagnosis, Alzheimer's, cancer, baby loss, suicide — with words that work at every age.
The conversation planner
interactive toolPick who you're talking with and what about; get a one-page plan with timing, opening lines to borrow, what to say, and what to avoid. Printable.
When is the right time?
10 questionsHonest answers to the timing questions: when to start recording after a diagnosis, when to sort belongings, when children should attend funerals, when to bring up end-of-life wishes.
We remember it differently
essayWhen honest people remember the same event differently — why it happens, how disputes escalate, and a protocol for keeping both tellings without a family fight.
10 telling-children guides and counting. Something missing that your family needed? Tell us at [email protected] — requests shape what we write next.