How To Tell Your Children About Death

Most children live in an idyllic world of saturday cartoons and the loving care of their parents. Unfortuantely, there comes a time when a child will experience death for the first time and it becomes the responsibility of parents to educate their young children on the subject of death and dying. Death is a difficult subject to work with at any age, but there are several things you can do to make the explanation process easier for those involved. Death does not necessarily have to be a dark and onerous conversation with your children - in fact, it pretty much should not be that way anyhow.

1. Children Understand Things Differently Than Adults

The media have most likely already given your children some sense of death but they likely don't fully understand or appreciate the subject and haven't discussed it with you until now.

2. Discussing Death With Your Children

Explaining an idea such as death is different from explaining something physical that your children are able to see, taste or touch. Try and explain things from the simplest level you can. If you wish, you can use this as an opportune time to go over the other big talk you will need to have with your children - birth.

3. Helping Children Coping With Loss

- Different children take loss differently
- If your child loses a pet, be sure to hold a goodbye funeral for the pet
- Keep discussion open for more than one day
- The heaviest toll is when a child loses one or both of their parents

4. Inform Children At An Early Age

Children should be given ample time to mull over the concepts of life and death in their minds. Do not wait until their pet dies in order to explain the subjects of death and dying to your children. Many parents agree that children respond best to an open discussion rather than, say, an informational video.

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