美国教育 | 来自老师的一封邮件：帮助孩子们面对和小宠物的告别
本帖最后由 禾西 于 2015-12-27 09:45 编辑今天再和大家分享一封豆豆老师在班上的小动物逝世后发给家长的一封邮件。虽然这是一个不好的消息，但是我当时看了以后却是一种温暖和感动，不知道你看了以后是什么感觉呢？希望大家看了后也说说你是怎么和孩子沟通类似的话题呢？
为了大家方便，我也特意做了翻译，大家凑合着看哦。
◆注1：考虑到隐私，本文的老师名字、学校、班级都是化名
Sad News in Room 77班的一个坏消息Mrs.Linda wrote:Our treasured guinea pig, Shifu, passed away today. He spent seven years at Xiao’eyu international Schoool teaching children how to be kind to animals and responsible for taking care of them. He loved listening to the children read and sitting in the grass under the big Mulberry tree. But his favorite thing of all was when the kids would save him carrots from their lunch and bring them to him. He would just hear the crinkling of the plastic and would come running and squealing with delight.
Linda老师的话：我们珍爱荷兰猪，Shifu，今天离我们而去了。他在小鳄鱼国际学校生活了7年，他在这里，让孩子们学会了如何爱护小动物，如何负有责任并照顾好它们。他非常喜欢坐在大桑树下的草坪上听孩子们读书，但是他最爱的事情还是吃孩子们给他带的胡萝卜，这些胡萝卜是孩子们从午餐里特意省下来给他的，他只要一听到塑料袋的咯吱声，就会兴奋地、尖叫着跑出来。
We'll miss you,Shifu! And thanks for all you did for the students of Room 7!
我们会非常想念你的，Shifu，谢谢你为7班的孩子们所带来的一切。
'What happened?'you ask. Well, Shift had been getting skinnier and skinnier for quite some time now. Beginning at President's Day weekend, he started to deteriorate. His eyes became cloudy and he started losing the use of his legs. Be Wednesday of this week, he could not walk. He was in his house in the morning (Thursday) and when he heard the students come in at 8:30, he crawled out of his house to be with them where he stayed all day. They petted him all day as he lie there. However, I felt hewas suffering so I had him euthanized this evening.
也许你会问“到底怎么了？”。恩，其实，shifu在最近一段时间已经越来越瘦了，这个状况在“华盛顿纪念日”那周末开始变得更加糟糕。他的眼睛越来越浑浊，腿也懒得动了，这周三开始，他基本很难动弹了。今天（周四）早上他本来在他的屋里，但是当8:30的孩子们进教室的时候，他使劲从他的屋子里爬出来，然后一直那样待着陪着孩子们上了一整天的课，他待着的时候孩子们逗了他一天。尽管这样，我觉得他实在太痛苦了，所以晚上我帮他平静的结束了这一切。
I will let you explain it to your children on your own way.Tell them they will not meet Shifu from tomorrow.Try to help them be calm to face the truth. I had not told them anything yet as I had yet to make the decision by the end ofschool today (Thursday).
我想请你们给孩子们解释一下，用你们的方式告诉孩子们明天他们就见不到shifu了，让他们可以平静的面对这个现实。我是今天晚上才最终做的这个决定所以我没来得及给他们说什么。
在孩子的成长阶段，每个家长都会面对如何和孩子沟通“死亡”这个话题，随着他们年纪越大他们的问题会越来越具体，家长也会感到越来越难以应付。在不同的文化和信仰的家庭，家长的回答都会有各自的方式。豆乐妈觉得其实西方家庭他们往往有自己的信仰，他们也许在这个问题上基本没有太大的“困境”，因为这些宗教和信仰在解释“死亡”的问题上都有“天堂”“上帝”等美好的故事和归属。但是对于中国的家庭，大多是“唯物主义者”，如何和孩子解释“死亡”相关的问题，真的需要一些“学问”。
你是如何和你的孩子沟通“死亡”这个问题呢？豆乐妈也想学习学习呢！
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