Children's Grief Awareness Day

 November 19, 2020

Today is Children's Grief Awareness Day. 1 out of 20 children will experience the death of a parent before their 18th birthday. Those figures were as of 2019, so they could very well be different this year since we have lost so many more to the pandemic. 

For children, their grief changes with them as they grow. With new levels of understanding as they develop, they may need to be told many times (each with varying levels of detail depending on the age of the child) how their parent died and ask many difficult questions. Their grief can show up all different ways, and sometimes it’s difficult to tell what is grief and what is typical developmental behavior for their age. Although kids are very resilient, their grief and stages are still very relevant and continue through adulthood. 

It’s a lifelong process.