Helping Your Child Understand Death
from The Happy Homeschool Hosted by Laura Blodgett
[Week 12 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child] Do we need to teach children about death? At what point should we teach our children about death? And how should we go about it? These are questions that cannot be avoided. From the time a child is old enough to squish a bug or hug a grandparent, death is destined to be part of their lives. It is not really a matter of IF we should talk to them about it, but what we will say. Obviously, it is going to be hard to talk about death honestly if we have not grappled with the subject personally. If we try to pretend that death is not an unavoidable part of life, we will not be prepared to realistically talk to our children about it on any level. And our children need us to be able to offer insight. If we don’t, they will look for answers in other places. To read more, go to: Helping Your Child Understand Death
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(Week 12 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Your Child) From the time a child is old enough to squish a bug or hug a grandparent, death is destined to be part of their lives. It is not really a matter of IF we should talk to them about it, but what we will say.
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