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Helping Children Grieve a Family Pet
Having a family pet can bring a lot of love, joy and companionship. For many, they consider their animals similar to son and daughters, brothers or sister. The pet becomes a family member. They are there when you wake up and go to sleep. They are there to cuddle and play with when you are
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Grief & Healing
Telling a Child that Someone has Died
by Chaplain Julia Rajtar What do you tell a child after their mother or father, or a sibling has died? Families struggle with thoughts such as: I’m not sure what to say, I don’t want to cause more pain, I want to protect them from this pain so let’s spare them the rituals and such
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Tasks of Grief
By Chaplain Julia Rajtar, MAPS, BCC Most of us when we think of grief, understand grieving as a model identified by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, in her book, On Death and Dying, 1969. In her well-known work, she stated that her book was about interviews with the dying, and ways to provide better care for
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