Children and Grief: Informative articles on how to help a child cope with the grieving process.
I have two really bad months in the year. January marks the anniversary of the decline of my father’s treatment for colon cancer, and his consequent death. There are a couple of days in January when grieving for my father makes it hard to get out of bed, because the sheer memory of grief weighs me down.
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As a father, and especially as one who has raised children whose biological father died when they were young, I was deeply moved the People Magazine’s interview with Bindi Irwin, daughter of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin who died eight years ago during a freak encounter with a sting ray. It’s the cover story of the
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NOTE: This is the second of two posts by Caitlin about Father’s Day Dear Dad, As more distance comes between the present and the time of your death, I get worried. For me, time will always bend so that you were here just yesterday. However, as I get older, I surround myself with more and
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NOTE: This is the first of a two-part posting by Caitlin-LL. Dear Dad, Happy belated Father’s Day. It’s been hard to write to you, and it equally hard to write about you in recent times. When I started writing for AfterTalk, I had a good luck streak. I wrote five posts that helped me process
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My younger sister Jolie and I are five years apart. We were playmates from the beginning, and it seems that her maturity accelerated to keep up with mine. I got a cellphone after years of waiting, and the next week she got a cellphone. When it comes to a Verizon Wireless family package, five years
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