How To Explain Death To Your Children

How do I explain death to my children?

Many people are concerned about their kids being around, and how much they tell their kids about their loved one who's dying. I always tell people, "Kids need to be included in this time of life." As parents we're always teaching our kids. We want to teach our kids how to deal with loss, because they're going to deal with this in their own lives. It's important that kids be allowed to be around grandpa or grandma or your loved one who is dying, to make sure you prepare them, what they're going to see, if there's tubes, how they're going to look, to make sure they know. It's also nice if you can give them a task to do, maybe to rub grandma's hands with some lotion. The other thing that I love to do with families and patients and children is to go to the local arts and crafts store and they have wonderful molds that you can do of a hand. To have the kids sit down with grandma and make a mold of her hand, is just a wonderful keepsake that they will have that they can always point to their hand in her hand. So, explain death to your children.