Talk to Your Children about Death

The children does not have to see the other people die and die again, it will make they feel psychology traumatize. As adult we can throw it away from our mind not to have a long time.

When the children face the death, it has not build up  those same defense mechanism their and may not be good at refreshing fears. That is why if you are a parent, you need to man up or woman up and push pass your own fear about death to talk to your children about it.

Do not let them suffer in confusing and silence, because you are afraid. Death is awful on its own, when it violent, it can make a child feel lost and unsafe. First, ask question to find out how much your child already knows about what happen, if their incorrect, give them a simple honest description of what happen.

Kids need to know you are safe person have feeling with. Do not ask them “how you doing?”, but ask them “How are you feeling?”.  What they say let them know that is okay to feel that way, all of those answer is find, listen to them.

They might ask something about death, if you know the answer, tell them, be honest about it, but if you do not know the answer, you are not require to make something up. If they ask “why did all those kids die?”. Just admit you do not know, and say “the world can be really scary place, and bad things happen, but I love you, and I’m going to protect you, and right now, I’m going to give you a big hug.

You are the adult, so you set the condition here, how you handle that, will be your children handle that. Please take responsibility incredibly seriously.