Children, Death and Dying
Much as we might like to try, we are unable to shelter our children from the realities of life--loss and death. Children are impacted by loss and death very differently than adults. This section includes information and resources for parents, grandparents, teachers and other significant adults to help children who are dealing with loved ones who are dying or experiencing death.
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Ways to Help a Child Cope with a Death or a Loss
Children tend to be highly resilient even when coping with a death or significant loss. This article provides information for parents, grandparents and other significant adults to provide them with ways to help a child cope with a death or a loss by maintaining routines, reassuring, reactions, reminiscing and remembering.
Children tend to be highly resilient even when coping with a death or significant loss. This article provides information for parents, grandparents and other significant adults to provide them with ways to help a child cope with a death or a loss by maintaining routines, reassuring, reactions, reminiscing and remembering.
How to Help a Child Cope with Death
How to Help a Child Cope with Death provides helpful information and suggestions for the important people in a child's life--parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals and other significant adults to help a child cope with loss and death.
How to Help a Child Cope with Death provides helpful information and suggestions for the important people in a child's life--parents, caregivers, teachers, medical professionals and other significant adults to help a child cope with loss and death.
Discussing Death and Dying with Children
From the ADAM's Illustrated Health Encyclopedia comes this informative helpful review on how to discuss death with children. The review provides information about how a child's concept of death varies with age, which must be considered when talking to children about death and dying.
From the ADAM's Illustrated Health Encyclopedia comes this informative helpful review on how to discuss death with children. The review provides information about how a child's concept of death varies with age, which must be considered when talking to children about death and dying.
Health Video Resource - Help Your Child Through A Death in the Family
Children are affected by death differently than adults and as a consequence deal with the death and express their grief in a variety of ways, not necessarily in the same way as adults. This video offers some helpful suggestions for parents, teachers and significant adults to help a child cope with death in the family.
Children are affected by death differently than adults and as a consequence deal with the death and express their grief in a variety of ways, not necessarily in the same way as adults. This video offers some helpful suggestions for parents, teachers and significant adults to help a child cope with death in the family.
Bunny: A Computer Animated Short Film
Bunny is a heart-warming Academy Award Winning film from Blue Sky Studios that explores issues of love, dying and the dying process that will have viewers laughing, crying and thinking. Now viewable online.
Bunny is a heart-warming Academy Award Winning film from Blue Sky Studios that explores issues of love, dying and the dying process that will have viewers laughing, crying and thinking. Now viewable online.
Decreasing Fear of Death for Children with Skeleton Puzzle
This article describles a skeleton puzzle and game that I use to desensitize several groups of young children (a bit) to Death by having them learn some basic bone Anatomy learn and become less scared of the typical Halloween skeletons that represent death.
This article describles a skeleton puzzle and game that I use to desensitize several groups of young children (a bit) to Death by having them learn some basic bone Anatomy learn and become less scared of the typical Halloween skeletons that represent death.
Helping Children Deal With the Loss of a Pet
From About's Veterinary Medicine Guide, Janet Tobiassen Crosby, DVM comes a helpful article with suggestions for helping a child (children) deal with the death of a pet "Time to Say Good-bye."
From About's Veterinary Medicine Guide, Janet Tobiassen Crosby, DVM comes a helpful article with suggestions for helping a child (children) deal with the death of a pet "Time to Say Good-bye."
Talking to a Child about Death - The Death of Steve Irwin
For many children the death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin was a significant loss and offered parents a rare teachable moment. This article offers some insights on explain the death of a friends to children.
For many children the death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin was a significant loss and offered parents a rare teachable moment. This article offers some insights on explain the death of a friends to children.
Talking to Children About the Death of a Public Figure
The death of a celebrity, or a child's hero, can cause sadness and grief in many children. The death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin prompted the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to offer suggestions for talking with children about the death of a child's hero or public figure.
The death of a celebrity, or a child's hero, can cause sadness and grief in many children. The death of the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin prompted the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to offer suggestions for talking with children about the death of a child's hero or public figure.
Helping Children Cope When A Pet Dies
An online article from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This article provides information for parents who are helping their child, cope with what is often a first real experience with a death--when a pet dies.
An online article from the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry's Fast Facts for Families© Series. This article provides information for parents who are helping their child, cope with what is often a first real experience with a death--when a pet dies.
(PDF File) What Color is Death, Daddy?
An interactive book for children ages 3-7 from the MISS Foundation. This book was developed as a tool to help grieving children as a free public service.
An interactive book for children ages 3-7 from the MISS Foundation. This book was developed as a tool to help grieving children as a free public service.
(PDF File) The Kaleidoscope of Grief: When Children Experience Death
An interactive book for Children ages 7 and older from the MISS Foundation. This book was developed as a tool to help grieving children as a free public service.
An interactive book for Children ages 7 and older from the MISS Foundation. This book was developed as a tool to help grieving children as a free public service.