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Ways To Support Your Child Through Grief
- Keep family routines going (i.e.keep having dinner, keep schedules the same, go to sports practice).
- Model healthy grief as a parent (i..e. cry, talk about how you are feeling)
- Normalize feelings (let your child know it is ok to feel upset, confused, angry, lost, sad).
- Do something to memorialize the deceased person (do an art project, write a song, lay flowers at the grave site, release a balloon).
- Assure your child that (s)he is safe.
- Listen to them.
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