How can parents or guardians help children experience their grief, especially when they too are likely to be in mourning?
The most important thing parents or guardians can do to help children experience grief is to experience it with them. So often parents forget that they are not the only ones who have lost someone they love, their children have also lost someone significant in their lives. Be available to your children to talk about the feelings you are experiencing, and ask them how they feel about losing grandma or grandpa There are many projects a parent or guardian can work on with their children to open the door to discussion about the person who has died. Parents could help their children put together a scrapbook in memory of grandma, or perhaps write down memories of grandma in a journal. If a child is too young to write, but can use a crayon, have the child draw a picture of a special moment with grandma. These are all productive, non-threatening activities children can do. These activities can also be healing to adults. Whatever a parent does, they should not tell a child that they know how the
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