One of the hardest things about being a parent is to manage your emotional health while supporting and nurturing a child. When our families experience death, keeping a strong parental front requires an entirely different level of skill.
One of the hardest things about being a parent is to manage your emotional health while supporting and nurturing a child. When our families experience death, keeping a strong parental front requires an entirely different level of skill.
By Danny Clark, LMSW
Thu, Aug 27, 2020
One of the hardest things about being a parent is to manage your emotional health while supporting and nurturing a child. When our families experience death, keeping a strong parental front requires an entirely different level of skill. Even among families, grief is unique to every person involved and has a lot to do with the family members’ ages.
I have spoken to many parents grieving, and every single concern they have is completely valid and 100 percent manageable. There is uncertainty about the effects grief may have on a child – fear the child will witness you grieving; difficulty in answering their questions – the list of worries can be limitless. Fortunately, with a little knowledge about how children grieve, you can support healthy development while working with your own grief.
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