It’s really difficult to deal with your own emotions when talking to your child. We had a house fire and we lost our dog and we had to tell our 2.5-year-old son. And one of the most important things that we needed to do was to be in control. It was okay for us to be sad – in fact, we told him. We said, “Mommy and daddy are very sad and that’s why we’re crying, but we want to tell you this important information.” And I did loose it, I had to go in the other room and my husband had to continue, because he needed to know that we were in control to allow him the ability to have his own emotion and his own reaction.