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Talking to Children About Death
A Workbook for Parents and Caregivers Navigating Loss With Children at Every Age
Children do not need protection from death. They need someone who can talk about it.
For the parent or caregiver who needs to talk to a child about a death and does not know what to say, what language fits the child's age, or how to support a child who is grieving.
The Name It First Experience
Children encounter death earlier than parents expect. A grandparent dies. A pet is gone. Then the question arrives — at dinner, in the dark — and you freeze. Seven chapters help you understand what your child at this developmental stage can hold, document your family's situation, and build the language and approach for the conversations that are coming. The output is not a script you memorize. It is The Family Communication Plan — a signed, dated guide built for this child, this loss, and the questions still ahead.
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Sample questions
- What has explaining loss to the children in your care actually been like?
- What do you most want them to understand — and what has been hard to find the words for?
- What does holding them through grief, at their age and in their way, look like?
Research basis
Nagy on children's understanding of death at developmental stages / Piaget on cognitive development and abstract reasoning capacity in children / Worden on childhood mourning tasks and age-appropriate grief support.
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