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[quote=Anonymous]It is so sad whenever a child dies.  I am sorry you have experienced that in your circle so frequently. I will never forget the searing grief at the first funeral of a child I attended.  I was 11 and it still makes me tear up to think of the family and the size of the coffin.

In our family we only share news about death when it is directly relevant to our young children, like someone they know well or see regularly.  That helps a lot for us as our kids have anxiety as part of their challenges.

I have worked with our therapis to process my own feelings and better be able to help my kids process their feelings of grief too.  My kids tend to get stuck on the topic of death and worry if their parents will die too. This is one of my worries and I notice whenever a healthy young adult dies suddenly. Of course my definition of young keeps getting older as I do.

We try to focus on empowering the kids to do something for the grieving family (make a picture of a memory) and then we use our faith to explain life after death.  But the emotional message is that it is ok to be really sad/ grieve.  And sometimes the only thing you can do to help is to be there with people while they grieve too.

I try not to read those other posts.  I think those parents are struggling.  And they may have never experienced the death of a child in their family.  I think it changes your point of view.[/quote]

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