Read on for their top five tips on helping a child deal with death.
Don’t Wait To Break The News: Tell a child directly when someone has died. This prevents them from hearing it in an unstructured and unsupportive manner, like from the whispering of relatives. If possible, somebody close to the child should be the bearer of this bad news.
Be Honest: Give as honest of an explanation of the death as possible. Avoid euphemisms (like