Yesterday our daughter's school held an emergency parent meeting to inform us that her teacher passed away suddenly. They told all the parents and they were going to inform the students (pre-k) about it later that day. I believe they used books and discussed happy memories of the teacher, etc. The way the school psych explained how they were handling such a difficult situation was wonderful and I am in full support.

However, this is the part I could use some advice. Both myself and my husband went to pick her up from school yesterday (which is not super out of the ordinary - most of the time it's just 1 of us, but we do both attend sometimes) and asked her about her day very casually, like normal. She proceeded to tell us about her lunch, what she played with and the friends she played with. We thought nothing of it and did not really want to "bring up" the loss of her teacher to see if she would come to us about it. She's a generally curious child and I thought after some time, she would come ask us some questions and we could talk to her.

Well, last night at dinner when both parents were out of the room, my husband overheard her talking to her 6 year old sister about her teacher dying and how she is never coming back. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that my girls feel like they can talk and confide in each other! However, I am wondering if this is something we should also be bringing up to her to talk about and how to go about doing so? This is her first time experiencing a loss of someone she knows (she was only 3 months old last time we had lost a loved one) and I want her to know we are here to talk to if she needs it, but I do realize she is only 4 and might not fully understand the concept either.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!