Search Results for: Childhood Grief: The influence of age on understanding
I have a daughter who is three years old. She sees the world in a delightful way. Everything is pink and sparkly. Yesterday she walked up to me with a skeptical look and asked, "Where is your mother?" Hmmm...I paused
Episode Transcript [Music] Welcome to the What's Your Grief Podcast. I'm Eleanor Haley. And I'm Litsa Williams. We're the mental health professionals, turned grief friends, turned co-founders of the website whatsyourgrief. In this podcast, we talk candidly about all things
It feels eerie to walk by the back-to-school section at my local Target. Usually, these aisles would be jam-packed with parents and kids clutching supply lists, rummaging through composition notebooks, and searching for the ever-elusive erasable pen. With schools in
I'm in my late 30's which means I grew up pre-internet, at a time when it wasn't unheard of to have only 3 or 4 television channels, and people still used things like newspapers, phonebooks, and maps. No, I didn't
We received a question this week about resources for talking with children about miscarriage and stillbirth. Though we have lots of resources about talking to kids about death and grief (you can find those here), I realized we have never
If you hang out here regularly, you may already know that Eleanor and I are both pretty big fans of Harry Potter. You were probably tipped off when we wrote our very own Harry Potter Grief Theory. That post required a bit of
If you came here looking for a script for talking to your child about death and grief, I'm sorry, we can't give you one. Your child is an individual and your situation is unique, so what you say and do
Ahhhh, family. Family, family, family. Family can be great, but that's not what this post is about. This post is about death and grief and all those times you've looked at a family member and said - "who are you?" "what are
When grief hits a family, children often become the focus: how to talk to them about death; how to recognize if they are grieving 'normally'; how to create open communication and dialogue; etc. When we ask adults what they need