• Keep your explanation honest, simple, and on a level that’s appropriate for the child’s age.
• Understand that death can cause fears and confusion in many children.
• Talk about it as openly as possible when they ask questions or if a situation occurs that requires you to discuss it.
• Talk about your feelings — fear, sadness, anger and anything else you feel. Show your child that the emotions they have are normal.
• Help children understand that they had nothing to do with the death. The person did not die because of something the children did, and they could not have prevented it from happening.

 Children are so adept at hiding their feelings, I think because they don’t understand their feelings. Death is something new to them, it is in itself hard to explain….in our grief we must put time aside to talk to our children about what has happened, no matter how hard that is….how we help them come through this time, will shape the way they see the world in the future.

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