6 Ways to Help Your Kids Grieve
Source: 6 Ways to Help Your Kids Grieve I In today’s Family Minute, we talked about communicating with our kids when they’re hurting. If you’re like me, when you see your kids hurt, it hurts you. But even when it hurts, we need to be there for our children and be the rock they can hold on to in times of uncertainty and pain. They are difficult subjects, but death and divorce are two things that are very difficult for our children to understand. How can we help our children grieve? In her book, family author Sandra P. Aldrich provides the following guidelines for talking to your children about traumatic issues such as death and divorce: Encouragement for busy moms: “Honey, hang in there!” Don’t lie about the situation. To protect their children from the truth, many parents defuse the situation by making up explanations such as “Grandma is on a long trip” or “We took the dog to a farm.” But according to the author: “These are not just lies, they shift the need to tell the truth t...