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After an important person dies, children grieve in different ways. When the death was sudden or frightening, some children develop traumatic grief responses, making it hard for them to cope with their grief

Beliefs and attitudes about death, funerals, and expressions of grief are strongly influenced by a family’s culture, religion, spirituality, and rituals related to mourning. Families need their own traditions, practices, and rituals so they can support each other, manage the wide range of emotional responses family members will have, face their adversities, find meaning for […]

A fundamental goal of parenting is to help children grow and thrive to the best of their potential. Parents anticipate protecting their children from danger whenever possible, but sometimes serious danger threatens, whether it is manmade, such as a school shooting or domestic violence, or natural, such as a flood or earthquake. And when a […]

Young children, toddlers, and preschoolers know when bad things happen, and they remember what they have been through. After a scary event, we often see changes in their behavior. They may cry more, become clingy and not want us to leave, have temper tantrums, hit others, have problems sleeping, become afraid of things that didn’t […]