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[quote=Anonymous]I just heard the awful news that the father of one of my 10 year old daughter’s friends was in a car accident and died a couple days ago. They are pretty good friends, but we are only loosely friendly with the parents/mom (ie we don’t hang out socially but are friendly when we coordinate plans for the kids or when we see one another in person).

The funeral is on Sunday and ordinarily we would go since it seems like many in our community are planning to, but we are currently out of town and won’t be able to make it back.

I just sent a condolence card to the family, but beyond that I am not sure how to handle. Do I text the mom to say I am sorry for their loss since the card I mailed today probably won’t reach them until next week? Do I mention that we are out of town so they don’t think we just didn’t care enough to be at the funeral?

And should my daughter reach out in some way to her friend - they do text one another on iPads from time to time but not sure if that is appropriate for a 10 year old to text her friend about this. Should she send a separate letter?

Bottom line is that I want the family to know we are thinking about them without appearing insensitive for not reaching out beyond a card… I just don’t know what’s appropriate.[/quote]

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