Helping Grieving Children

Books

• Grieving Children

Helping Grieving Children

• A Place to Grieve – A safe place for teens to express and share when someone close has died.
• All Kids Grieve – Grief, loss, and death are inevitable experiences of life. If we expect children and teenagers to manage the losses in their lives in such a way that allows them to succeed in school and grow into emotionally intelligent human beings, teachers, counselors, and parents need to discover ways of addressing the emotional losses that are present in the minds and bodies of students in the classroom
• Bereavement – Parenting after a loss - discussion board at ParentsPlace
  A Place to Remember - Support for those who have been touched by a crisis in pregnancy or death of a baby.
  Laughter can help when facing grief
  Bereavement page at Parents.com
  The Compassionate Friends....
• Children & Grief – When a family member dies, children react differently from adults. Preschool children usually see death as temporary and reversible - a belief reinforced by cartoon characters who “die” and “come to life” again.
• Children & Loss – Teachers serve as a crucial emotional bridge for a child at times of loss. What do we need to know to help students cope?
• Dealing with Grief & Loss – Shortcut to Crisis Management - Dealing With Grief and Loss...
  
• Focus Adolescent Services - Grief & Bereavement – It's part of life. Someone special died today. Someone's father or mother, husband or wife, son or daughter. A family, a lifetime of memories and a lot of pain are left behind. And, for the survivors, the pain is just beginning. Working through that pain and sadness is often a long and grueling process called mourning.
• Heavenly Lights Childrens Memorial – Heavenly Lights Childrens Memorial is an online memorial dedicated to raising awarenesss to childhood diseases such as Aids and Cancer...
• Helping Teenagers Cope with Grief – Each year thousands of teenagers experience the death of someone they love. When a parent, sibling, friend or relative dies, teens feel the overwhelming loss of someone who helped shape their fragile self-identities. And these feelings about the death become a part of their lives forever.
• KidsAid – KIDSAID is a safe place for kids to share and to help each other deal with grief about any of their losses. It's a place to share and deal with feelings, to show artwork and stories, to talk about pets, to meet with one's peers.
• Support Group for Kids – kids-to-kids is our support group for kids dealing with any loss. Kids who want to join should have a parent's permission to join. Kids under 18 will have their parent or guardian contacted by GriefNet to confirm their permission for the kid to join.
• Talking to Children About Death – If you are concerned about discussing death with your children, you’re not alone. Many of us hesitate to talk about death, particularly with youngsters....