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[quote=Anonymous]My son's best friend lost his father - very suddenly while on holiday. It happened two years ago when the boy was about 9.5 years old. We met him just after it happened. The first six months to a year he was in shock and would start crying whenever my son mentioned his dad and he wanted to talk about his own dad a lot. His biggest concern was and continues to be his mom. He is very protective of her and worries about her a lot.

One thing his mom did the first year, which I really admire, is she kept him really busy with friends and family. Hardly a week went by without visitors. He joined my son's soccer team so that we could collect him with my son a few times a week after school so he didn't have to go home to the nanny. She reached out to a lot of people at school and organized playdates so now he has a huge group of friends in our area. Because they were fairly new to the area, she told all the parents and made sure the school knew he had lost his dad so they wouldn't ask questions and would be extra sensitive.

It's obviously never going to be normal but they have both gotten through it and both of them seem to be in a very good place at the moment. [/quote]

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