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Grieving Children

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Elaine explained: "When someone is very ill in our family or when someone dies, our automatic reaction is to protect our children from the difficult pain and sadness that comes. So we try to be 'strong' for the children's sake. The pro...
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When a child loses a loved one, it can have a profound impact on the rest of their lives. Grieving children are likely to feel different and alone. "One of the biggest fears people have in general when they're grieving is wondering if ...
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Here are five simple ways to help a grieving child:
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Answers to Other Common Questions
Children from the age of 3-4 years are aware that someone is missing and need to be involved in the family with the funeral if they so choose. Older children will often outwardly copy adults in their grieving e.g. crying or not crying, whil...
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My daughter was in a car accident a couple months ago with four other teens, one died at the scene. The high school had their own chaplain that was continually there for all the kids. I would go to a familiar church & ask their pastor t...
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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1998) cautions parents and teachers that, although most children grieve less over time, counseling might be considered if children exhibit several of these behaviors over an extended ...
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0304-grief.html
Every day through the media, images of death, loss, grief and violence as a result of Hurricane Katrina are presented to not only adult eyes, but also the vulnerable eyes and hearts of our children. Adults barely have the tools and experien...
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Children deal with grief in a unique way, and their path toward healing is different than adults. Who can children talk to about their loss? Who can understand a child going through the many changes in their life who have cancer or who h...
http://www.solacetree.org/faqs
Christina hadn't even turned four yet when her brother died and she fell asleep during most of the funeral. Christina didn't cry but she acted out in a way that most people wouldn't understand. Christina began to have an imaginary friend sh...
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