At a glance
Offer choice with preparation and a support person. Forced attendance and forced exclusion both miss the mark for some kids — ask and scaffold. Keep that beside Parenting through grief and big change when you open the tool. It answers a search. It is not a ranking of people and not a live price.
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Should children attend funerals?
Parenting through grief and big change states Should children attend funerals? as Offer choice with preparation and a support person. Forced attendance and forced exclusion both miss the mark for some kids — ask and scaffold.. Read that sentence before you treat a score as the whole story.
How long until they are “over it”?
A second check is How long until they are “over it”?: Grief revisits across development. Expect waves, not a deadline.. Two figures that do not measure the same thing should not be collapsed into one winner.
What to open
Open the topic page and the signature tool. The figure Should children attend funerals? belongs there as context: Offer choice with preparation and a support person. Forced attendance and forced exclusion both miss the mark for some kids — ask and scaffold.. Count this as check 1 of 4.
What this is not
This is education from the atlas. It does not diagnose and does not prescribe a dose. A third detail, What if I am too broken to help?, says: Arrange another steady adult and get support for yourself — that is parenting, not failure..
This is education from the atlas. It does not diagnose and does not prescribe a dose.
What should I do with “Should children attend funerals?”?
Offer choice with preparation and a support person. Forced attendance and forced exclusion both miss the mark for some kids — ask and scaffold. Keep that beside Parenting through grief and big change when you open the tool. It answers a search. It is not a ranking of people and not a live price.
Does this page rank people or nations?
This is education from the atlas. It does not diagnose and does not prescribe a dose.
Where is the existing tool?
Use the two links below: the topic entry for Parenting through grief and big change and the signature tool. The figure to carry is Offer choice with preparation and a support person. Forced attendance and forced exclusion both miss the mark for some kids — ask and scaffold..
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