Helping them to bring out and visualize what they feel is essential especially when we see their joyful faces veiled by meloncholy. But what is this feeling? Melancholy, like sadness, helps to deal with pain and there is no need to repress it, because by doing so it does not disappear. It’s better to accept it and live it. It is important to give and indulge right to be sadbecause only in this way can suffering be processed.
To start talking about it with the little ones you can observe and read together for example A sea of sadness (mini bomb), in which the simple and essential images will help children and adults to discover that this feeling also exists at the bottom of the sea, but looking at things from another point of view rekindles hope. Sometimes melancholy is one gray speech bubble which accompanies us without ever leaving us and which shades the sun, as happens in the book When it rains inside (Stones), where it rains only for the protagonist because there was a separation from a dear friend or even in Lizzy and the cloud (Gallucci) which addresses the theme of growth and detachment.
