Helping Children Deal with Death 

Children Dealing with Death: A Grief Bibliography

          Children experience the death of a pet, a relative, a friend.  Often, there are difficult questions to answer.  Why does this happen?  Will it happen to me?  The purpose of this site is to help all of us deal with these questions and find suitable answers for the age,  need, and in some cases, religion of the child.

A Parent's Guide: Helping Children Understand This site will help when explaining death and talking to young children about funerals.

LEARNING TO LIVE THROUGH LOSS: HELPING CHILDREN UNDERSTAND DEATH

Helping Children Understand Death
... Helping Children Understand Death. It is hard to lose someone special no ... able to talk about their grief at first and may take a longer time to do so ...

Fernside: A Center For Grieving Children An excellent list of books to read and pamphlets to inexpensively order,dealing with death and serious illness.

Helping Children With Grief, Death, and Serious Illness This site particularly addresses children and cancer.

OncoLink: Kid's Corner (Resources for Children and Families) An excellent site from the University of Pennsylvania, where students may even e-mail one another when they have friends  who are seriously ill.

 Talking About Death - Children's Hospital San Diego A compassionate simplistic explanation for children and families coping with death.

The Grief of Children
One of the most difficult tasks following the death of a loved one is discussing and explaining the death with the children in the family. This task is even more distressing when the parents are in the midst of their own grief.

Death and Loss - Parenting Tips for dealing with grief

Books to Help Children Understand Death and Dying.
Most of the titles suggested in this bibliography can be checked out through Unit Five's special collection at your school library.

Conscious Choice More on Bereavement
An explanation of behaviors you might see in your child as they continue thru the grieving process.

Helping Children Grieve Bibliography

How Children Cope With Grief