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When Grandma Died
Everyone is sad and nobody knows what to say to you.
Everyone says she's in a better place. But she's not here. That's it.
For the child who has lost someone they loved and is working through grief in a house full of adults who are also grieving.
The Name It First Experience
Someone you loved died. The grownups are crying. People keep coming to the house. Everyone seems to know how sad they are. But nobody seems to know how to talk to you about it. In When Grandma Died, you move through the days after — the funeral, the questions, the moments when you feel sad and the moments when you do not. Each path leads somewhere different. This is a story for children learning that grief is not one feeling and there is no right way to do it. The output is not an explanation. It is Your When Grandma Died Page — what you felt, what you needed, and whether you found it, in your own words.
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Sample questions
- What do you think the character is feeling when the grown-ups are sad but nobody knows how to talk to them?
- What would YOU do with the feeling — tell someone, keep it inside, or something else?
- What do you think is important to remember about someone who died?
Research basis
Worden task model of mourning adapted for child developmental stages / Bowlby attachment theory applied to childhood bereavement / dual process model of coping with bereavement (Stroebe and Schut) applied to children's oscillation between grief and ordinary play.
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