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Everyone experiences loss and grief, but that doesn't make it any easier to talk with kids about it

When I was a school social worker, a teary-eyed father once came to the school to tell his 4-year-old daughter's teacher that the child's mother had been in an accident. He did not speak to his child as she looked on, but simply relayed pickup arrangements to the teacher before he hurried to the hos...

Everyone experiences loss and grief, but that doesn't make it any easier to talk with kids about it
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When I was a school social worker, a teary-eyed father once came to the school to tell his 4-year-old daughter's teacher that the child's mother had been in an accident. He did not speak to his child as she looked on, but simply relayed pickup arrangements to the teacher before he hurried to the hospital.

Originally published at Phys.org

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